Recruitment Rules: PNM Edition

Recruitment Rules: PNM Edition

·  A woman is eligible to participate in membership recruitment if she is not simultaneously enrolled in high school and attending college.

·  A woman is eligible to participate in membership recruitment if she is a regularly matriculated student on campus.

·  A woman shall not be, or have ever been, an initiated member of an NPC organization and join another NPC organization.

·  Any woman who signs an MRABA and receives a bid at the end of the membership recruitment will be bound by it until the next primary recruitment period at the same college or university.

·  A woman may only receive a bid if she has completed one full semester at Lycoming College.

·  Strict silence is the time during which there is no conversation or contact between sorority members and potential new members. This includes all references to sororities (verbal, written, typed, or printed). Strict silence is the period from the end of a woman’s last recruitment event until she reports to the sorority from which she accepts a bid.

·  A list of all membership financial responsibilities will be given to each potential new member by each sorority during membership recruitment. Panhellenic may give a range of fees as general information.

·  A woman shall provide her own transportation or use transportation provided by Panhellenic to and from membership recruitment events.

·  A woman must contact her recruitment counselor and/or College Panhellenic if she desires to withdraw from the membership recruitment process; she must complete a withdrawal evaluation.

·  From the official college move-in for the Spring Semester through the end of membership recruitment, no potential new member may visit a sorority chapter except to attend invitational or open recruitment events.

·  No sorority member may buy anything for a potential new member.

·  A woman will not give a promise, either verbal or written, to join a certain sorority before bids are distributed by Panhellenic.

·  A woman will complete the membership recruitment acceptance binding agreement (MRABA) after the last event she attends. It is a binding contract and once it has been signed, no changes may be made.

o  If a woman does not complete an MRABA, she will only be eligible for COB.

o  A woman will never be prohibited from only listing one house on her MRABA.

·  A woman will attend orientation and all events to which she has accepted invitations. In the event of illness or emergency, she will notify Panhellenic and/or her recruitment counselor if she cannot attend.

·  Panhellenic nametags will be provided to potential new members.

·  No potential new member may attend a recruitment event under the influence of alcohol or any other controlled substance.