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Formal Membership Recruitment participant expectations and guidelines
The Panhellenic Council has adopted the following regulations so that recruitment may be as fair as possible to all persons concerned. All women participating in recruitment are responsible for observing these guidelines and should become familiar with them. If serious infringements of Panhellenic guidelines occur, penalties may be imposed including dismissal from the recruitment process.
The following, taken from the Kansas State University Panhellenic Council Membership Recruitment Code of Ethics, applies to potential new members.
GENERAL GUIDELINES AND EXPECTATIONS FOR POTENTIAL NEW MEMBERS
1. Entering freshmen are recommended to have a 2.90 cumulative high school GPA and upperclassmen and are recommended to have a 2.50 cumulative GPA. Women with GPAs below these thresholds are unlikely to receive a bid.
2. Each potential new member should be aware that individual chapters will be following grade requirement guidelines set forth by their national organizations.
3. Potential new members are asked not to communicate with active or alumnae sorority women (including relatives such as sisters) after moving into the residence hall, except at scheduled recruitment functions.
4. Potential new members may not use alcohol or illegal substances during recruitment. Use of alcohol or illegal substances will result in dismissal from the recruitment process. No refunds will be given.
5. Potential new members may not visit fraternity houses during recruitment. Prospective members may not communicate about recruitment with, or visit, men (including relatives) during recruitment.
6. Each prospective member must accept the maximum number of invitations for each round in order to maximize her chances of pledging. Failure to do so will result in being dismissed from further recruitment activities. An expectation is made following the final round of recruitment where participants may preference all or only one or two of the chapters she visited.
7. Legacies (participants with relatives who are sorority members) are recruited the same as any other prospective member.
8. Prospective members who sign preference cards and receive bids at the end of the formal recruitment period are bound to that sorority for one calendar year at Kansas State University. While they are not obligated to pledge that sorority, they may not pledge another NPC sorority at K-State within that year, if they do not accept the initial bid.
9. Potential new members will be assigned to groups at the time of registration and must attend all Open House events with the group to which they have been assigned. Other recruitment events are to be attended according to an assigned schedule. Potential new members may not deviate from their assigned individual schedule.
10. The nametag issued to a potential new member at registration is to be worn to all recruitment events and to meals. (Nametags should placed so they are visible on the upper right-hand side of the chest and should be unadorned.)
11. Potential members are expected to attend all recruitment functions. Chapter recruitment coordinators and/or the panhellenic advisor will determine excused absences.
12. In the case of illness or personal/family emergency at any time during recruitment, a potential new member should notify her recruitment guide and necessary arrangements will be made.
13. Participants are asked to not carry a cell phone during scheduled events. It is advised participants leave their cell phones in their residence hall room. All recruitment guides have phones in the case a participant is lost or encounters an emergency. Should a family emergency exist, family members should call the 24-hour recruitment hotline and from there the student will be located.
14. If any potential new member wishes to withdraw from recruitment, she must contact her recruitment guide. Final withdrawal procedure is channeled through the K-State panhellenic advisor.
15. No souvenirs (napkins, flowers, song sheets, etc.) may be taken from the sorority home.
16. Participants will be unable to carry a bag/purse into the chapter home and instead will be asked to leave their bag with the a recruitment guide assigned to the chapter as a host. Likely anything a participant should need, the recruitment guide will have.
17. K-State practices strict silence during the period immediately following the last preference event through the final selection/ranking computer entry. In an effort to ensure no participant is swayed by the opinion of someone else, it is expected participants discuss only with their recruitment guide the preference round events and the selections a participant will make. Talking to another participant is disrespectful. The use of cell phones prior to selection is prohibited.