Pin Numbers

TexasAGD · #1 04-13-2003, 01:52 PM

Does anyone have one? If you do, can you call pin on other people? My boyfriend's fraternity does. If you have a lower pin number than the other person you can call "pin" and tell them to do things for you. Of course, calling pin cannot be taken out of hand for it to cause trouble or hazing. Things like giving up your seat, fetching the beer, moving the car, etc. Supposedly, you can't call pin on your own pledge class members, only those after your class.

James · #2 04-13-2003, 02:05 PM

That would be kind of cool, my pin number is one lol. We don't have a tradition where seniority counts. People just do what I ask them to do because its me asking.

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Originally posted by TexasAGD
Does anyone have one? If you do, can you call pin on other people? My boyfriend's fraternity does. If you have a lower pin number than the other person you can call "pin" and tell them to do things for you. Of course, calling pin cannot be taken out of hand for it to cause trouble or hazing. Things like giving up your seat, fetching the beer, moving the car, etc. Supposedly, you can't call pin on your own pledge class members, only those after your class.

DeltaSigStan · #3 04-13-2003, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by TexasAGD
Does anyone have one? If you do, can you call pin on other people? My boyfriend's fraternity does. If you have a lower pin number than the other person you can call "pin" and tell them to do things for you. Of course, calling pin cannot be taken out of hand for it to cause trouble or hazing. Things like giving up your seat, fetching the beer, moving the car, etc. Supposedly, you can't call pin on your own pledge class members, only those after your class.

That's how ours works. You can call it for something small, but not something with set rules like calling shotgun.

And, yeah, you can't call it on your own pledge class which sucks.

SSS1365 · #4 04-13-2003, 03:36 PM

We did it as kind of a joke, but it wasn't an official thing.

Betarulz! · #5 04-13-2003, 05:54 PM

We have what you would call "pin" numbers...since our chapter name is Alpha Tau, we call them AT's and you can pull "AT" on someone...

We don't have rules about doing it within your own pledge class, but it's one of those things that you know what you can get away with. Usually tends to happen more between pledges and Actives, and probably most during the first month of school in order to demonstrate to the pledges what their real situation is.

Usually AT is used most for shotgun, but I (and most guys) have a rule in my car that if there is one of my pledge brothers is riding, he automatically gets shotgun. If there's more than one than normal shotgun rules apply.

Other than that AT is used primarily for room picks and parking spots in our back lot.

starang21 · #6 04-13-2003, 06:21 PM

i'm confused, is this something like seniority?

DeltaSigStan · #7 04-13-2003, 08:14 PM

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Originally posted by starang21
i'm confused, is this something like seniority?

Yeah, if someone pledged before you, then their number of when they joined will be higher. Like I'm 109,345. My bruh in the class before me is 108,993. He can call pin on me. I can call pin on a later class.

Betarulz! · #8 04-13-2003, 08:52 PM

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Originally posted by starang21
i'm confused, is this something like seniority?

Kind of, but like for people in your pledge class it is assigned by some other method. We use a point system involving GPA, involvement, community service hours, attendance at events, scores on song and lore tests, and intramurals. After the Honor Pledge (who is selected by the chapter as the pledge who had best exemplified the principles of Beta Theta Pi) the numbering goes by points as to is initiated first. My pledge class is from 2050 to 2073. I'm 2063.

docetboy · #9 04-13-2003, 10:42 PM

We have pin numbers, except we call it bond number, and it was the number you were to be initiated into the chapter. When a pledge class is initiated, the highest GPA goes first, hence, getting the lower bond number.

My bond # is 1304, meaning I was the 1,304 person initiated into the Gamma-Nu chapter of Kappa Sig.

DeltaSigStan · #10 04-13-2003, 11:09 PM

Oh, ours is the national number

DigitalAngel126 · #11 04-13-2003, 11:10 PM

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Originally posted by TexasAGD
Does anyone have one? If you do, can you call pin on other people? My boyfriend's fraternity does. If you have a lower pin number than the other person you can call "pin" and tell them to do things for you. Of course, calling pin cannot be taken out of hand for it to cause trouble or hazing. Things like giving up your seat, fetching the beer, moving the car, etc. Supposedly, you can't call pin on your own pledge class members, only those after your class.

Yuppers, only we call it "Badge". We can't call badge on anyone in our pledge class either (Which sucks, cuz I'm highest in my pledge class!!!), but right now I'm technically alumae, so I can call it on anyone (but I don't

)...Also, Theta Xi here did the same thing.. Kappa Kappa chapter, so they'd call Kappa Kappa on each other. It gets pretty funny

AlphaSigOU · #12 04-13-2003, 11:20 PM

My roster number is 814. (Or as National Headquaters puts it, 024-0814 -- 024 being the numeric designation for Alpha Alpha Chapter.) The only time roster number seniority comes into play in Alpha Sigma Phi is for ritualistic recognition purposes I'm not at liberty to discuss in an open forum.

SATX*APhi · #13 04-14-2003, 12:32 AM

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Originally posted by SSS1365
We did it as kind of a joke, but it wasn't an official thing.

Same with us, but we call it "pin order."

The1calledTKE · #14 04-14-2003, 12:56 AM

When I was still an undergrad we did it for about the first 3 years but it got abused so everyone stopped honoring it.

Kevin · #15 04-14-2003, 01:15 AM

I 'pull pin' sometimes just for asinine stuff like shotgun

I got a pretty cool badge # actually. It's 5.

My chapter is Mu Tau.. so if you take the roman numeral V...

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