General Recruitment Information
Recruitment Registration
Registering with Longview Area Panhellenic does NOT register you for recruitment with your college Panhellenic.
- YOU MUST REGISTER WITH THE PANHELLENIC ON YOUR COLLEGE CAMPUS IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN RECRUITMENT.
- Contact your college Panhellenic or Greek Life to register. There is usually a cost associated with sign-up.
- Recruitment registration is the prospective new member's responsibility and to register by the campus deadline.
Recruitment Rules
- The Longview Area Panhellenic cooperates with the recruitment rules of the individual colleges and urges that each potential new member going through recruitment learns and obeys the rules of her chosen school.
- You are responsible for knowing and abiding by the rules of your college Panhellenic and are subject to penalties for infractions of any rules. Violation of rules could result in removal from recruitment. Check your college Panhellenic rules carefully. "Recruitment" includes any activity engaged in by college sorority members and/or their agents who attempt to persuade or influence a potential new member in favor of a particular sorority.
- Sororities are bound by college Panhellenic rules. An infringement of the rules can result in penalties to the college chapter of the sorority involved.
Be Natural
Recruitment is simply the method of getting acquainted with prospective members. Let good taste and good manners guide your conduct during recruitment. Smile! Be yourself. Be interested in others. Have genuine and honest conversations. Have a great time.
Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites
Clean up your pages, profile, photos, wall, and postings.
Basically, you wouldn't want anything on your page that you wouldn't want your parents to see. You WILL be looked at!
Membership
- Our sororities, members of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) are private social organizations whose collegiate members have the right to invite into membership the women they deem to be most congenial. The privilege of choice is mutual.
- Although a sorority has the right to choose whom it will invite to recruit, you, the prospective new member, also have the right to choose which sorority you wish to join.
- Do not make up your mind about joining any sorority until you have met its active college members.
- Remember that you are not joining a "name", but choosing a closely-knit group in which you can expect to make lasting friendships in college and alumna life.
- Also, remember that individual sororities differ from campus to campus.
When your final decision is being made in your preferential signing at the end of recruitment, you will be urged to list more than one sorority, in preferential order, when indicating the sororities you are interested in joining.
An Important Word for Parents
Let your daughter's decision be her own. She is the one who will have these women as her sorority sisters for a lifetime.
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