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missjnicole:

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missjnicole:

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missjnicole:

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haileyscomet:

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Highlight had to be some woman asking me if I “belonged to that fraternity,” since I was wearing letters. No, I beat someone in ZBT up and stole them for myself.

I have a shirt of my dad’s from his…

Hence why the only people who’d wear them other than me and my brothers, and in a very controlled environment (I.E. not leaving the confines of my room) would be someone VERY close to me. Because the people I’m closest with outside of ZBT are the ones who understand how important it is to me. This also drives the point home that we do things VERY differently up north, we don’t lavalier anyone, among other things.

Exactly :)

We don’t lavalier much out west, either.  Occasionally, but it’s not really common.  I’m interested to see the differences between Arizona and Rhode Island when I get there.

But I also think it’s different for guys.  I don’t understand why a guy would want to wear a girl’s letters, but girls are…well, prone to stealing “borrowing” clothes from guys.  Even if a guy that I was super close to wanted to wear my letters, I don’t know if I’d be okay with that (unless it’s a lavalier-type situation) just because they’re so special to me.  And if a guy ever let me wear his, I’d definitely feel privileged :)

Yeah, I wouldn’t be so keen on wearing a girl’s letters, but that’s more because I have NO desire to date any girl in any of the sororities on my campus, the nationals or locals.

And you’re not fucking joking about girls wanting to steal letters, my chapter had a serious problem with girls in SDT or DPhiE jacking our letters, either to keep them or give to SAE when they still had beef with us (SAE burned a set of our letters in ceremony once, that was cool.) Thankfully I’ve never had a girl try absconding a set of mine, or even expressing interest in them.

That bad?  I know there’s no AXiD at Oswego, so maybe that’s the problem ;)

A couple of my sisters have lavaliered their boyfriends, one of them gave her guy an actual lavalier + a keychain with letters + a letter shirt, and it’s kind of adorable seeing them both in our letters (he’s unaffiliated), but it’s also a little weird seeing a guy in my letters.

But there’s never a shortage of girls in borrowed/stolen letters, especially as shack shirts.  It wasn’t such a big thing at my old school…mostly we tried to steal the big wooden letters that we’d bring to multi-greek events and club fairs and whatnot.  It was always a general rule to have at least one fraternity member guarding the letters at all times, since unattended letters were fair game :)  They could always be gotten back with trays of baked goods and/or serenades, though, so it’s not like stolen shirts that get kept.

It used to be a problem, back in ye olden days (around ‘04 up to ‘07ish.) It isn’t anymore, thankfully, we maintain good relations with the sororities nowadays. And you never see anyone wandering around campus in another organization’s letters, that would result in such an epic shitstorm that Greek life would probably cease to exist at Oswego.

We just never had a big enough Greek system (2 sororities, 6 fraternities) for those kind of shenanigans.  Plus, our administration didn’t really love us so we didn’t want to push the boundaries.  Inciting a disturbance by wearing another organization’s letters would have been terrible.

We have a moderately robust Greek community up here (5 national fraternities, 5 local fraternities, 4 national sororities, 5 locals, and that’s not even counting the multicultural ones,) but our college is not so fond of Greek life. We have no Greek Row (we can thank the original chapter of TKE for that, they stole money from the Greek Council funds designated to get us a Greek Row,) and as pretentious as this makes me seem, ZBT is pretty much the only fraternity that does GOOD for the campus and/or Greek representation in terms of community service and philanthropy.

missjnicole:

amiserablelittlepileofsecrets:

missjnicole:

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haileyscomet:

amiserablelittlepileofsecrets:

Highlight had to be some woman asking me if I “belonged to that fraternity,” since I was wearing letters. No, I beat someone in ZBT up and stole them for myself.

I have a shirt of my dad’s from his…

Hence why the only people who’d wear them other than me and my brothers, and in a very controlled environment (I.E. not leaving the confines of my room) would be someone VERY close to me. Because the people I’m closest with outside of ZBT are the ones who understand how important it is to me. This also drives the point home that we do things VERY differently up north, we don’t lavalier anyone, among other things.

Exactly :)

We don’t lavalier much out west, either.  Occasionally, but it’s not really common.  I’m interested to see the differences between Arizona and Rhode Island when I get there.

But I also think it’s different for guys.  I don’t understand why a guy would want to wear a girl’s letters, but girls are…well, prone to stealing “borrowing” clothes from guys.  Even if a guy that I was super close to wanted to wear my letters, I don’t know if I’d be okay with that (unless it’s a lavalier-type situation) just because they’re so special to me.  And if a guy ever let me wear his, I’d definitely feel privileged :)

Yeah, I wouldn’t be so keen on wearing a girl’s letters, but that’s more because I have NO desire to date any girl in any of the sororities on my campus, the nationals or locals.

And you’re not fucking joking about girls wanting to steal letters, my chapter had a serious problem with girls in SDT or DPhiE jacking our letters, either to keep them or give to SAE when they still had beef with us (SAE burned a set of our letters in ceremony once, that was cool.) Thankfully I’ve never had a girl try absconding a set of mine, or even expressing interest in them.

That bad?  I know there’s no AXiD at Oswego, so maybe that’s the problem ;)

A couple of my sisters have lavaliered their boyfriends, one of them gave her guy an actual lavalier + a keychain with letters + a letter shirt, and it’s kind of adorable seeing them both in our letters (he’s unaffiliated), but it’s also a little weird seeing a guy in my letters.

But there’s never a shortage of girls in borrowed/stolen letters, especially as shack shirts.  It wasn’t such a big thing at my old school…mostly we tried to steal the big wooden letters that we’d bring to multi-greek events and club fairs and whatnot.  It was always a general rule to have at least one fraternity member guarding the letters at all times, since unattended letters were fair game :)  They could always be gotten back with trays of baked goods and/or serenades, though, so it’s not like stolen shirts that get kept.

It used to be a problem, back in ye olden days (around ‘04 up to ‘07ish.) It isn’t anymore, thankfully, we maintain good relations with the sororities nowadays. And you never see anyone wandering around campus in another organization’s letters, that would result in such an epic shitstorm that Greek life would probably cease to exist at Oswego.

missjnicole:

amiserablelittlepileofsecrets:

amiserablelittlepileofsecrets:

haileyscomet:

amiserablelittlepileofsecrets:

Highlight had to be some woman asking me if I “belonged to that fraternity,” since I was wearing letters. No, I beat someone in ZBT up and stole them for myself.

I have a shirt of my dad’s from his…

Hence why the only people who’d wear them other than me and my brothers, and in a very controlled environment (I.E. not leaving the confines of my room) would be someone VERY close to me. Because the people I’m closest with outside of ZBT are the ones who understand how important it is to me. This also drives the point home that we do things VERY differently up north, we don’t lavalier anyone, among other things.

Exactly :)

We don’t lavalier much out west, either.  Occasionally, but it’s not really common.  I’m interested to see the differences between Arizona and Rhode Island when I get there.

But I also think it’s different for guys.  I don’t understand why a guy would want to wear a girl’s letters, but girls are…well, prone to stealing “borrowing” clothes from guys.  Even if a guy that I was super close to wanted to wear my letters, I don’t know if I’d be okay with that (unless it’s a lavalier-type situation) just because they’re so special to me.  And if a guy ever let me wear his, I’d definitely feel privileged :)

Yeah, I wouldn’t be so keen on wearing a girl’s letters, but that’s more because I have NO desire to date any girl in any of the sororities on my campus, the nationals or locals.

And you’re not fucking joking about girls wanting to steal letters, my chapter had a serious problem with girls in SDT or DPhiE jacking our letters, either to keep them or give to SAE when they still had beef with us (SAE burned a set of our letters in ceremony once, that was cool.) Thankfully I’ve never had a girl try absconding a set of mine, or even expressing interest in them.

amiserablelittlepileofsecrets:

haileyscomet:

amiserablelittlepileofsecrets:

Highlight had to be some woman asking me if I “belonged to that fraternity,” since I was wearing letters. No, I beat someone in ZBT up and stole them for myself.

I have a shirt of my dad’s from his…

Hence why the only people who’d wear them other than me and my brothers, and in a very controlled environment (I.E. not leaving the confines of my room) would be someone VERY close to me. Because the people I’m closest with outside of ZBT are the ones who understand how important it is to me. This also drives the point home that we do things VERY differently up north, we don’t lavalier anyone, among other things.