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New Member’s Bill of Rights THE RIGHT to be treated as an individual.
THE RIGHT
to ask questions and receive true and objective answers from Recruitment
Counselors.
THE RIGHT
to be treated with respect.
THE RIGHT
to be treated as a capable and mature person without being patronized.
THE RIGHT
to ask how and why and receive straight answers.
THE RIGHT
to make informed choices without undue pressure from others.
THE RIGHT
to be fully informed about the binding agreements implicit in
preference card signing.
THE RIGHT
to make one's own choice and decision and accept full responsibility
for the result of the decisions. THE RIGHT to have a positive, safe and enriching Recruitment experience.
Guidelines for Potential New Members The following are the guidelines for the Potential New Members (PNMs): 1. A woman is eligible to participate in membership recruitment if she is a regularly matriculated student on campus. At Arkansas Tech, this means you must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 hours on the Russellville campus. 2. A woman must also have either a cumulative high school GPA of 3.000 for entering freshmen or a minimum 2.500 college GPA for transfers and continuing students to be eligible to participate in formal recruitment. 3. A woman shall not be or have ever been an initiated member of an NPC group and join another NPC group. 4. A woman is ineligible for membership recruitment if she has been a new member of an NPC fraternity on this campus within the calendar year. 5. A woman shall register for membership recruitment and pay a $25.00 registration fee by the beginning of the Recruitment Orientation. 6. A woman shall attend orientation and all events to which she has accepted invitations. In the event of illness or emergency, she should notify Panhellenic and/or her Rho Gamma if she cannot attend. 7. A woman provides her own transportation or uses transportation provided by Panhellenic to and from membership recruitment events. 8. A woman should contact her recruitment counselor and/or College Panhellenic if she desires to withdraw from the membership recruitment process. 9. Panhellenic nametags will be provided to the Potential New Members. 10. From the beginning of orientation through the end of membership recruitment, no Potential New Member may visit a woman’s fraternity chapter except to attend invitational or open recruitment events nor may a Potential New Member visit the residency of a member of a women’s fraternity. 11. No women’s fraternity member may buy anything for a Potential New Member. 12. A woman shall not give a promise, either verbal or written, to join a certain fraternity before bids are issued through Panhellenic. 13. A woman will complete the Membership Recruitment Acceptance Agreement after the last event she attends. It is a binding contract and once this has been signed, no changes may be made. 14. Any woman signing a Membership Recruitment Acceptance Agreement and receiving a bid at the end of the membership recruitment will be bound by the agreement for one calendar year at the same college or university. 15. Strict Silence is the time during which there is no conversation or contact between women’s fraternity members and prospective members. This includes all references to fraternities, verbal, written, typed or printed and includes but is not limited to text messaging, web-based social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, etc., or instant messaging. Strict silence is the period from the end of the woman’s last event until she reports to the fraternity from which she accepts a bid. 16.
A list of all membership financial responsibilities will be given
to each Potential New Member by Panhellenic or each member fraternity
during membership recruitment. Panhellenic may give a range of
fees as general information.
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