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01-30-2010, 12:24 PM
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International Badge Day: March 1, 2010
International Badge Day will be on Monday, March 1, 2010, with the theme "The Fraternal Experience: Keep it Close to Your Heart"
Of course in this social media world a facebook event has already been created. This can be a great way to notify/remind those in your college chapters, alumnae chapters, or panhellenic friends.
International Badge Day on Facebook
Found this tidbit interesting on the facebook page:
Q: What’s different in 2010?
A: This is the second year that we’re celebrating diversity and our common sorority experience. In the spirit of global interfraternal relations, NPC also invited the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc., the National Multicultural Greek Council, the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association and the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations, Inc. to participate.
I also did not know this:
Q: Who started this tradition?
A: The creation of this event was the idea of a sorority woman. In the spring 1996 issue of Alpha Sigma Alpha’s “The Phoenix,” Nora M. Ten Broeck wrote an article titled: “A Simple Solution—Wear Your Membership Badge Today.” The article described her personal experience of wearing her sorority pin to work one day.
Way to go ASA!
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01-30-2010, 10:21 PM
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I just signed Facebook that I'd be participating! If you ever look at the ADPi Forum, under Random, you'll see which pin I'll most probably wear - I have a few that I've rescued from ebay.
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01-30-2010, 10:30 PM
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I really wish NIC would get in on this. I think it's a great idea.
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01-31-2010, 08:41 AM
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Thanks for the reminder, Blondie93. Will be getting the word out starting with Chapter on Monday night. I'm going over to the ADPi forum to check out Honeychile's badges.
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01-31-2010, 01:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Blondie93
International Badge Day will be on Monday, March 1, 2010, with the theme "The Fraternal Experience: Keep it Close to Your Heart"
Of course in this social media world a facebook event has already been created. This can be a great way to notify/remind those in your college chapters, alumnae chapters, or panhellenic friends.
International Badge Day on Facebook
Found this tidbit interesting on the facebook page:
Q: What’s different in 2010?
A: This is the second year that we’re celebrating diversity and our common sorority experience. In the spirit of global interfraternal relations, NPC also invited the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc., the National Multicultural Greek Council, the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association and the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations, Inc. to participate.
I also did not know this:
Q: Who started this tradition?
A: The creation of this event was the idea of a sorority woman. In the spring 1996 issue of Alpha Sigma Alpha’s “The Phoenix,” Nora M. Ten Broeck wrote an article titled: “A Simple Solution—Wear Your Membership Badge Today.” The article described her personal experience of wearing her sorority pin to work one day.
Way to go ASA!
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Any idea if a standing link to the article online?
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01-31-2010, 03:58 PM
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Any idea if a standing link to the article online?
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This page on npcwomen.org has links to much of the same information.
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01-31-2010, 11:17 PM
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I really wish NIC would get in on this. I think it's a great idea.
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Agreed. I think I'll do it anyway, though.
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02-01-2010, 02:52 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito
I really wish NIC would get in on this. I think it's a great idea.
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Agreed. I think I'll do it anyway, though.
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Maybe the men of GC can start a new trend. If anyone can make it happen, it's GC!
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02-01-2010, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Blondie93
This page on npcwomen.org has links to much of the same information.
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Thanks. I'm assuming pre-2000 maybe be a bit earlier for NPC orgs and online archiving of their newsletters. I would love to see the article written by Nora Broeck.
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02-01-2010, 03:30 PM
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Maybe the men of GC can start a new trend. If anyone can make it happen, it's GC!
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I'm seriously considering email NIC and asking why we aren't involved with this.
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02-01-2010, 03:54 PM
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I'm seriously considering email NIC and asking why we aren't involved with this.
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I'd say go for it. They don't know what's on people's minds unless you tell them- and if they get several emails about it, maybe they'll consider either talking to NPC about joining with the annual March 1, or ideally establishing their own day. Two badge days a year would be fantastic.
ETA: I shot them an email. I'm sure an NPC opinion won't matter as much as those of NIC members, but you never know what'll tilt the scales.
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02-01-2010, 04:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Blondie93
International Badge Day will be on Monday, March 1, 2010, with the theme "The Fraternal Experience: Keep it Close to Your Heart"
Of course in this social media world a facebook event has already been created. This can be a great way to notify/remind those in your college chapters, alumnae chapters, or panhellenic friends.
International Badge Day on Facebook
Found this tidbit interesting on the facebook page:
Q: What’s different in 2010?
A: This is the second year that we’re celebrating diversity and our common sorority experience. In the spirit of global interfraternal relations, NPC also invited the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc., the National Multicultural Greek Council, the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association and the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations, Inc. to participate.
I also did not know this:
Q: Who started this tradition?
A: The creation of this event was the idea of a sorority woman. In the spring 1996 issue of Alpha Sigma Alpha’s “The Phoenix,” Nora M. Ten Broeck wrote an article titled: “A Simple Solution—Wear Your Membership Badge Today.” The article described her personal experience of wearing her sorority pin to work one day.
Way to go ASA!
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I'm down, on the NPHC side of it, but im curious to know what exactly "invited" means. Did they just send an email out? Was there buy-in? It would be a cool thing to do, greek-wide. There's no mention of it on NPHC's site.
We have certain badge attire, and i assume a lot of you do too. Does this mean on 3/1/10 you all will be in badge attire or will you wear a crest pin? I will be going with the latter.
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02-01-2010, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by tld221
I'm down, on the NPHC side of it, but im curious to know what exactly "invited" means. Did they just send an email out? Was there buy-in? It would be a cool thing to do, greek-wide. There's no mention of it on NPHC's site.
We have certain badge attire, and i assume a lot of you do too. Does this mean on 3/1/10 you all will be in badge attire or will you wear a crest pin? I will be going with the latter.
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I'm thinking about participating. I have a nice jeweled poodle pin and a nice shield pin I could wear.
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02-01-2010, 04:50 PM
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I think its an awesome tradition - the reason NIC can't catch on is because they don't have the same governing power that NPC does. Campus IFCs are not monitored by the NIC like campus panhellenics are by the NPC. They just don't really have that line of communication.
That being said, I'll wear my badge on March 1st with Vito and pshsx1!
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02-01-2010, 04:52 PM
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Quote:
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We have certain badge attire, and i assume a lot of you do too. Does this mean on 3/1/10 you all will be in badge attire or will you wear a crest pin? I will be going with the latter.
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We do have a required badge attire, so yes, this will require a little out-of-the-norm fare for me. Back when I was working, my daily attire was scrubs, so I was not able to participate. Now I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old that I stay home with. Guess I will just have to spruce it up a little that day for our trip out to the grocery store and Target!
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