Sorority Recruitment Rules
- A woman is eligible to participate in formal recruitment if she is a matriculated student at Angelo State University, taking at least twelve (12) semester credit hours.
- Women holding a cumulative GPA of 2.5 may participate in recruitment. However, invitations of membership may be extended based on chapters' individual GPA requirements.
- A recruit shall not be, nor have been, an initiated member of an NPC (National Panhellenic Conference) group.
- A student who had her pledge broken by her sorority, or who broke her pledge to her sorority, may not be asked to join another sorority on the same campus for one calendar year from the date she was originally pledged. However, she may be re-pledged by the same sorority at any time during that calendar year.
- A recruit shall "sign-up" for formal recruitment and pay a registration fee as designated by Angelo State University's Panhellenic Council.
- A recruit shall attend orientation and is encouraged to attend all parties to which she has received an invitation. In the event of illness or other emergencies, she shall notify Panhellenic and/or her Panhellenic recruitment guide. At the discretion of the chapter the recruit may or may not be invited back by the chapter.
- From the beginning of orientation through the end of formal recruitment, no potential member may visit a fraternity woman's residence.
- A recruit shall consult her recruitment guide before withdrawing from recruitment. In the event the recruit feels that she must withdraw from recruitment, she shall complete and sign an official withdrawal form with her recruitment guide or at the Student Life Office.
- A woman shall not give a promise, verbal or written, to join a certain fraternity before formal bids are issued through Panhellenic.
- A recruit shall fill out the preferential bid card immediately following the last party of preferential night. Recruits are encouraged to list on this card the names of all the fraternities from which she is willing to accept a bid to membership. These names will be listed in order of preference without any outside interference.
- The signing of the preferential bid card is final and binding. No changes may be made after it is signed.
- Any recruit signing a preferential card then receiving and accepting a bid at the end of recruitment shall be bound by the agreement for one calendar year if she is at the same university.
- Refusal to accept a bid extended to a recruit by a group she has preferenced makes her ineligible to pledge any other NPC fraternity at the same university for a calendar year.
- All recruits shall observe silence. The purpose of silence is to provide an atmosphere whereby the recruit can make her own decisions, free from member, alumna, and/or new member pressure or influence.
1. During the period of silence, there shall be no extended conversation between a recruit and any active member, alumna, or pledge, except at designated recruitment parties.
2. During the designated period of silence, active members, alumnae, and new members are bound by the rules of silence, and are not to make phone calls, give or send flowers, letters, notes, cards, or telegrams, etc.
3. No sorority member may buy anything for a recruit (meal, coke, gifts, or favors, etc.).
4. No recruit may buy anything for a sorority member.
5. Recruits must also observe rules of silence with those who are not members or new members of a sorority.
6. It is understood that recruits will be in contact with adults, independents, male acquaintances, and other recruits during the period of formal recruitment. However, there should be no conversation concerning sororities during this time.
7. Recruits are not allowed to date during formal recruitment. A date is considered any form of engagement with one or more persons, male or female.
8. Recruits will provide her own transportation to and from recruitment events.
9. Recruits may associate with each other during the recruitment period but should not discuss sororities with the intent of influencing other recruits. The decision to accept a sorority party invitation and/or a sorority bid is an important one and each recruit should be accorded the privilege of determining her choice privately without the influence of other recruits.
10. Recruits who do not receive or accept any party invitations are not required to observe SILENCE except to other recruits and sorority members.
