What other things are you prohibited from doing in letters- besides drinking?

[AlphaPhiBubbles]

Originally posted by PM_Mama00
If that were the case, my chapter would be in a helluva lot of trouble! As far as I know we're not supposed to go to bars or drink in our letters. Which on Monday nights turns most of my girls into members of "Mu Phi".

I've also been with members of Phi Alpha on occasion...lol. But yea I remember the first couple of days I moved into the A Phi house after I transferred to Chico State, I'd smoke cigs on the front steps not thinking about how bad that was. *oops* Luckily a sister informed me of the rules.

[PhoenixAzul]

I would be super annoyed if I had to wear makeup and fix my hair when I was wearing letters. Life's too short. I work out a lot and have classes/rowing all day long, so it's really rare that I'd be wearing makeup...EVER (if I ever wore makeup to rowing practice, I'd get laughed out of the boathouse). I was vegetarian/partial vegan for 4 years, so I'm pretty anti-makeup to begin with.

Things we aren't supposed to do...drink/go to parties with our letters/lavalier on. Other than that, it's sort of an unspoken rule that you never throw any of your sets of letters away...you save them or pass them down no matter what the condition, they never go to goodwill.

[jharb]

Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
I would be super annoyed if I had to wear makeup and fix my hair when I was wearing letters. Life's too short. I work out a lot and have classes/rowing all day long, so it's really rare that I'd be wearing makeup...EVER (if I ever wore makeup to rowing practice, I'd get laughed out of the boathouse). I was vegetarian/partial vegan for 4 years, so I'm pretty anti-makeup to begin with.

I know we just ask that you look presentable, not that you have makeup and all that. Don't just roll out of bed and put on letters and a ratty pair of sweatpants. I know here it's a rule that you don't wear pajama pants outside of our house on campus. Our chapter is filled with classy women, why not dress to express that to the others on campus? Yes, I know that the way you dress isn't a measure of classy, but at the same time if you look nice, you tend to feel better too.

To answer the original question, my chapter doesn't allow drinking, smoking or anything that would demean the letters. (aka sex or something along those lines)

[aphibeach]

Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
I would be super annoyed if I had to wear makeup and fix my hair when I was wearing letters. Life's too short. I work out a lot and have classes/rowing all day long, so it's really rare that I'd be wearing makeup...EVER (if I ever wore makeup to rowing practice, I'd get laughed out of the boathouse). I was vegetarian/partial vegan for 4 years, so I'm pretty anti-makeup to begin with.

Things we aren't supposed to do...drink/go to parties with our letters/lavalier on. Other than that, it's sort of an unspoken rule that you never throw any of your sets of letters away...you save them or pass them down no matter what the condition, they never go to goodwill.

i bet you're beautiful enough that you dont have to wear makeup!

i think the biggest thing for us is that we cannot be "on camera" in our letters. a few years ago, Road Rules had mentioned to UNCW that they were coming to do a mission on our campus (for their campus crawl season). we were informed by nationals NOT to wear letters if we wanted to be on tv and if we were in letters to avoid the cameras at all costs.

[Wine&SilverBlue]

Originally posted by aphibeach
i think the biggest thing for us is that we cannot be "on camera" in our letters. a few years ago, Road Rules had mentioned to UNCW that they were coming to do a mission on our campus (for their campus crawl season). we were informed by nationals NOT to wear letters if we wanted to be on tv and if we were in letters to avoid the cameras at all costs.

You can't be on camera doing something "bad" in your letters, or you can't be on camera at all? When MSNBC came to film Crossfire on campus for the 2nd debate, the head of the network (a Pi Phi alum) contacted our chapter and told us that if a bunch of Pi Phis showed up in letters, she'd get us in the front and have Chris Matthews interview us on camera. We weren't allowed to say who we were voting for, hold any signs, or favor either candidate, but we were allowed to answer general questions about where we planned to vote (Missouri or our home state) and other random non-political questions. (We wouldn't want Pi Phi to seem partisan, although there was no problem with us being on TV)

Funny story: My friend randomly ended up being the mascot (in the giant furry bear suit) on the day of the debate and got interviewed by one of the news crews. The reporter asked him who he was voting for, and he screamed "KERRY!!!" and danced around. The school ended up getting a call that night from an angry conservative alum, who wanted the mascot to go back on TV and recant his statement... but it never happened

[smiley21]

i do not understand something. if you cannot drink in letters, why do you think that turning your shirt inside out will make things okay? do you think everyone else is too drunk to realize your shirt is backwards?? so they think your letters are something else when they are not. why do you wear letters when you know you are going to the bar anyway? you would think that someone would see your shirt and think 'hey that is backwards and it looks like they have greek letters.' looks like that is enough to make all greeks look bad and not just your org. or someone could know what your letters are even though they are backwards.

[lyrica9]

i agree with smiley. i think turning shirts inside out while smoking/drinking looks worse than with them on correctly.

[33girl]

I'll just say what I've said a million times.

If you think that smoking or drinking are that bad and wrong, don't do them at all - letters or no letters. People know you're in a sorority anyway. I don't think those things are bad and see no problem with doing them in right-side-out letters. It's more upsetting to see girls in Greekwear acting like total bitches. Trust me, that makes people think worse of you than drinking ever could. The people who would get on you for drinking are the same ones who even if you DON'T wear letters find a reason to hate sororities anyway.

Originally posted by 33girl
I'll just say what I've said a million times.

If you think that smoking or drinking are that bad and wrong, don't do them at all - letters or no letters. People know you're in a sorority anyway. I don't think those things are bad and see no problem with doing them in right-side-out letters. It's more upsetting to see girls in Greekwear acting like total bitches. Trust me, that makes people think worse of you than drinking ever could. The people who would get on you for drinking are the same ones who even if you DON'T wear letters find a reason to hate sororities anyway.

I know, and I agree.

I just didn't want to get fined. (Being a broke ass college senior those bills meant a meal or two or five) So, if it meant turning the shirt over, sticking the masking tape over, so be it. Drinking I'd never do while in letters (lavaliere, eh, as an alum, perhaps), but y'all know I'm a big smoker.

It was that technical issue, but thankfully it was my last semester, I didn't get caught, so I didn't really give a....

[PlymouthDZ]

Originally posted by 33girl
The people who would get on you for drinking are the same ones who even if you DON'T wear letters find a reason to hate sororities anyway.

GOOD CALL 33!! This statement is SO true!!

[aphibeach]

Originally posted by Wine&SilverBlue
You can't be on camera doing something "bad" in your letters, or you can't be on camera at all? When MSNBC came to film Crossfire on campus for the 2nd debate, the head of the network (a Pi Phi alum) contacted our chapter and told us that if a bunch of Pi Phis showed up in letters, she'd get us in the front and have Chris Matthews interview us on camera. We weren't allowed to say who we were voting for, hold any signs, or favor either candidate, but we were allowed to answer general questions about where we planned to vote (Missouri or our home state) and other random non-political questions. (We wouldn't want Pi Phi to seem partisan, although there was no problem with us being on TV)

they tell us to just play it safe and avoid the cameras at all

[33girl]

Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
I just didn't want to get fined. (Being a broke ass college senior those bills meant a meal or two or five)

you got FINED for this isht? oy vay.

If we would have had a no smoking in letters rule, we would have either had a lot of cranky sisters or a lot of naked sisters.

[shadokat]

Tru dat yo, although it's so different up here in the north. We have the no drinking in letters, wearing letters to the bar, etc., but we do not have any of those silly smoking rules about sitting and crossing legs, etc.

Originally posted by 33girl
you got FINED for this isht? oy vay.

If we would have had a no smoking in letters rule, we would have either had a lot of cranky sisters or a lot of naked sisters.

[adpiucf]

It's a public relations thing. Regardless, people tend to know if you're a greek in or out of letters, but when wearing letters, driving a car with letters on it or being in or around the chapter house, you acted like a classy lady and you didn't engage in any kind of behavior that would detract from that image-- smoking, drinking, acting wild, etc. In letters, you had to look like a put-together young woman who was representing her sorority, her university and her community.

[SigK_Bama]

My undergrad chapter forbade members to smoke or drink in letters, and that went for jerseys and party shirts - anything at all with our letters on it. You couldn't even carry a tote bag with your letters on it while smoking. We had a large group of smokers for a few years for some reason, so that meant a huge chunk of the chapter never wore their letters at all because they didn't want to be caught smoking and get fined (we were fined out our arses for ridiculous stuff). Finally, my junior year (I think), the bylaws were changed to say that you could smoke in party shirts, at least.