Drinking in letters

[33girl]

Originally posted by valkyrie
The only disgraceful thing about that picture of the woman in the beer hat is the fact that she's drinking Coors. Ew.

LOL, that's exactly what Mr. 33 would say.

[KSUViolet06]

The Kappa Phi club is also NATIONALLY DRY. NO DRINKING in letters, NO alcohol at ANY events- even if you are 21, no events with other orgs who ARE premitted to have alcohol.

[PhoenixAzul]

I know that Tau Delta's rule is NO DRINKING IN LETTERS! If you have your lavalier on, tuck it in your shirt or take it off. If there is a chance of you acting stupid...NOT IN YOUR LETTERS. We really aren't supposed to go to parties in our letters. I have a couple of times, but I have never and will never drink as a matter of personal morality, and I'm usually there to pick someone up.

[LionTamer]

We really aren't supposed to go to parties in our letters. I have a couple of times, but I have never and will never drink as a matter of personal morality, and I'm usually there to pick someone up.

I used to go to parties mostly to pick someone up, too. Probably a good reason NOT to wear my letters...

[Measi]

Originally posted by Contessima
I can't speak for Kappa Kappa Psi or music fraternities other than SAI and PMA, but I know we're DRY fraternities. We're not allowed to drink at fraternitity functions including socials (I know many PMA chapters break this rule, and I know some who have been disaffiliated for it); we're not allowed to spend fraternity funds on alcohol. Other than that, we are allowed to drink in our letters, but it is not encouraged to be drunk in them. This means it is perfectly acceptable to wear your lavaliere at a restaurant or even your badge while drinking wine, but it's icky to be lewd and obnoxious while wearing them. I was just talking to my PO about this last weekend.

Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi have dry rules for official functions as well, including socials (some of the alumni who came back for our chapter's 20th anniversary were not happy with the rule... but hey, we have members who aren't yet legal in attendance). No chapter funds on alcohol.

Otherwise, it's pretty much the same as PMA.

~ Mel.

[DGqueen17]

I've drank in my DG thong before.

[James]

Thats a Christian club right? Didn't Christ drink wine when everyone knew who he was?

How odd they would take that viewpoint.

Originally posted by JocelynC
The Kappa Phi club is also NATIONALLY DRY. NO DRINKING in letters, NO alcohol at ANY events- even if you are 21, no events with other orgs who ARE premitted to have alcohol.

[James]

I think that if this stuff crosses your mind as a concern, you and your friends have had amazingly problem free lives and need to try and focus on more important stuff lol

Originally posted by honeychile
I'd be interested in knowing about the tattoo prohibition. I've mentioned before about a question concerning debrasion - I think it's a very valid discussion!

Back to drinking: what would y'all think of a few alumnae getting together after visiting a chapter or such, they're wearing laveliers or similar "small" letters (ring?), and they stop for dinner and maybe a glass of wine?

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

Originally posted by James
I think that if this stuff crosses your mind as a concern, you and your friends have had amazingly problem free lives and need to try and focus on more important stuff lol

Or she just wants to make sure she promotes her org. in a good way.

lay off.

[CarolinaDG]

Originally posted by Wine&SilverBlue
"The alumnae are all over 21 so I don't think that there's anything wrong with that. Plus, I somehow seriously doubt that if you have a bunch of alumnae get together and go out for dinner, that they're going to get so drunk that they're going to do anything that would give the sorority/chapter a bad name."

I agree. I think theres a difference between having a glass of wine with dinner, and doing a kegstand or being blatantly drunk in public. Theres also a difference between being over 21, or not.

I personally think that you shouldn't wear letters if you plan on getting drunk or doing anything you wouldnt want associated with your sorority....

I think by the time you are an alumnus, most of us have gone through so much "training" that we all feel weird about drinking in letters, unless we know for a fact that it's completely appropriate. I went out the other night after work, and all I had with me was a t-shirt with my letters on it... I made sure to sit so noone could read them! I know that noone would care (especially cause this was a po-dunk bar in Lake Wylie that most people going to wouldn't have even gone to college... much less been in a sorority/fraternity to be able to "judge" someone for drinking in letters) but it still made me feel weird.

[honeychile]

Originally posted by James
I think that if this stuff crosses your mind as a concern, you and your friends have had amazingly problem free lives and need to try and focus on more important stuff lol

You also don't know why the woman discussed was in a Standards Hearing!

Other peoples' lives are always better or worse than someone else's.

[CarolinaDG]

Originally posted by DGqueen17
I've drank in my DG thong before.

You weren't JUST in your thong, were you? I mean, if so, this is a COMPLETELY different standards issue.

[kddani]

btw honey- KD does have a no-tattoo rule. No letters or crest. Girls a lot of times get daggers or shamrocks instead

[tunatartare]

Originally posted by kddani
btw honey- KD does have a no-tattoo rule. No letters or crest. Girls a lot of times get daggers or shamrocks instead

What would happen if a girl was unaware of this rule and got a tatoo with letters on it? Would nationals make her get it removed?
ETA: Does a tatoo of AOT fall under the "no letters" rule?

[honeychile]

Originally posted by kddani
btw honey- KD does have a no-tattoo rule. No letters or crest. Girls a lot of times get daggers or shamrocks instead

Good idea! I need to get a ruling on this for ADPi - I honestly don't know.