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Re: [APO-L] Ritual issues was(RE: [APO-L] Logo Issue, and side bar)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Ryan Gallagher)
Sat Mar 29 16:12:43 2003
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:12:38 -0500
Reply-To: Michael Ryan Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
From: Michael Ryan Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Agreed. My chapter hands pins to pledges and initiates at times.
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From: "Dan Kreifus" <dkreifus@yahoo.com>
To: <APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [APO-L] Ritual issues was(RE: [APO-L] Logo Issue, and side bar)
> > 1) Do any chapters have any suggestions to avoid the following
situation.
> > Jane Prospective receives an invite to pledge and comes to the pledging
> > ceremony in a beautiful dress that just happens to be strapless. Where
is
> > the pin placed and what if the one pinning is a male brother? Do you
tell
> > Jane and the fellow female invitees to wear dresses that actually have
> > necklines?
> >
> > 2) I've heard of chapters holding rituals in public places, the most
> public
> > being an *early* morning ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
> DC.
> > Any feelings on this.
>
> 1) As a male brother, the best thing I've learned is you let them put the
> back of the pin on or the whole thing. I know this violates "tradition" of
> the brother pinning the pledge, but with times, things must be changed.
>
> 2) Seeing as how our rituals are very anti-hazingish, it's not a big deal.
I
> don't think there are many spies out there trying to find out our rituals.
I
> think a location of such importance is actually kinda cool. It's not like
> you're doing it in the dead middle of your student center, as students are
> flowing through.
>
