GLOs that don't let new members wear letters?

[aephi alum]

Just being nosy here I did a search but didn't find anything relevant, please don't hate me if I missed something

Which GLOs don't allow their new members to wear letters?

AEPhi doesn't allow anybody but initiated sisters to wear letters - the Phi, at least, has to be spelled out, or you can spell out all 3 letters. The reasoning is that only initiated sisters know the meaning of the letters. Which makes it all the more special when you're initiated - I can think of at least a couple of my chapter sisters who brought letters to initiation and put them right on afterwards But it did put the kabosh (sp?) on some cute T-shirt ideas...

[SAEguy]

Well my GLO doesnt allow non-initiated members to wear letters except party shirts. They dont want you to go out and get the stuff for your car and other such things until you are truely a part of the GLO.

[SSS1365]

Tri Sigma's new members (well at least in my chapter) can wear pretty much anything except the stitched block letters. Does anyone know if this is the way it is with all Tri Sigma chapters? It may just be that all GLO's at Longwood don't let their new members wear stitched letters.

[Parsifal]

I'm pretty sure Theta and Pi Phi have the same rule. You can have clothes with the nickname, but not the actual Greek letters until after initiation.

[DeltAlum]

I'm going to have to find out about this.

In the past, Delt pledges (OK, whatever you want to call them) could wear letters, but not the Crest because we didn't find out its' meaning(s) until initiated.

I think it's still he same.

[Sisterplum]

My local (Iota Beta Chi) doesn't let any non-initiated sisters wear letters. And yes, the reason is because they don't know what the letters stand for. Once they become sisters though, we get their big sisters to lend them their sweaters for a photo shot.
They are allowed to wear shirts with our letters spelled our, or with IBChi on it, just not IBX! All of our girls seem to respect that....and are very happy and honored when they are finally allowed to wear the letters for the first time!
FYI...we also don't let our girls write our letters until they become sisters...for the same reason, they don't know what the letters mean. We also don't allow ANY of our sisters to write the letters of other greek org's for the same reason! We either write their nicknames or write the letters out in full!

[dzsaigirl]

DZ's are not allowed to wear or display the crest until they are initiated. However, letters are fine.

[KSigkid]

I believe Kappa Sig pledges are allowed to wear letters, but not the crest or the letters AEKDB (our motto).

However, my chapter doesn't allow pledges to even wear letters.

Collin

[deltaphi94]

I had a friend in college who was Phi Kappa Psi, and he told me they were not allowed to wear letters until they were initiated. My GLO allows new members to wear letters before they are initiated, though.

[carnation]

Pi Phi doesn't permit pledges to wear the Greek letters or crest--only "Pi Beta Phi" written out. When I was a pledge, it seemed that the pledges of every other group except ours could wear letters and were flaunting them in our faces! (They weren't, of course!)

[Betarulz!]

I know that there is some variance among chapters even.

Here at Nebraska, we as pledges were allowed to where letters, with encouragement if it was something that reflected well on the house (philanthropy or the like). But there were certain words that we couldn't say out of respect to the brothers unless they were in a song. And obviously we weren't allowed to use the letter closer.

I know that at Kansas, the Betas there rarely wear letters, even the initiated brothers. They also refer to themselves as Alpha Nu (their chapter name) rather than Beta. Also they don't have letters anywhere on their house so that you know it's a beta house. They have a lot of weird rules, that I don't think I could agree with, and I know that if I had gone to KU I would have joined a different house. I really have no idea about why...

[josh8o]

I know that in my fraternity, phi kappa psi, we were not allowed to wear letters until we were initiated. I also know that some of the other fraternities at my school whose letters are part of the regular alphabet (Alpha, Kappa, Tau, Beta, Epsilon, etc.) can wear them, but they can not be embroidered, or large on the chest. I know that KA is one of them.

[PKTSU01]

We phikaps have the same rule. You can wear the words spelled out but not the greek symbols. It's pretty much a traditional thing, but, a lot of the time, with the actual greek symbols, they mean something very specific to the individual GLO. Why would you have a pledge (come on, don't go all PC on me now) wear letters when he/she doesn't know the meaning behind them? Why would they wear them when they haven't earned the right to be called brother/sister, there are SOME perks that go with full membership, full usage of the name being one of em.

[Optimist Prime]

We have pledge jeresey that have letters on them. They only have one layer-no background color, which is the big thing on my campous. Most Fraternties here have letters over the heart that are smaller. They are either with background or without, depending.

[SilverTurtle]

We don't have a national policy either way.

My chapter actually had "pledge shirts" made, which were (are) T-Shirts with the chapter's design on it... the design incorporates the greek letters with a lot of the arts we include (an artist's palate, ballet slippers, music notes, etc.) as well as our open motto. (The design was done by one of our members, and something the chapter has used unofficially since). There was always one day every week when the new members were supposed to wear their shirts, and the actives wore whatever letters they wanted to that day.


I don't know if it was in our bylaws, but new members never wore anything or displayed anything with the crest until after initiation. Although, even after, it wasn't too common, mostly everyone wore the letter.