Panhellenic PNM Rights & Responsibilites

The Panhellenic primary recruitment process is designed to help potential new members (PNMs) identify if the Panhellenic sorority experience is a good fit and, if so, which sorority can provide a values-aligned membership experience. It also helps chapters identify outstanding new members. This mutual selection process is not without challenges or without some level of intensity, and the following rights and responsibilities have been developed to assist PNMs and chapters in their recruitment journey. During what can sometimes be an overwhelming experience, the hope is that the PNMs, the Recruitment Team, and chapters can approach the process with kindness and compassion. Potential New Member Rights Each potential new member has:

• The right to be treated as an individual
• The right to be fully informed about the recruitment process
• The right to ask questions and receive true and objective answers from recruitment coaches and members
• 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 have and express opinions to the recruitment coaches
• The right to have inviolable confidentiality when sharing information with recruitment coaches
• The right to make informed choices without undue pressure from others
• The right to be fully informed about the NPC Unanimous Agreements implicit in the Membership Recruitment Acceptance Binding Agreement (or preference card) signing process
• The right to make one’s own choice and decision and accept full responsibility for the results of that decision
• The right to have a positive, safe, and enriching recruitment and new member period

Potential New Member Responsibilities

• To be eligible to participate in the primary recruitment process, Potential New Members (PNMs) must be enrolled students at Colorado State University. Individual chapters may have additional eligibility requirements related to full-time student status.
• Potential new members must attend all events to which they are invited throughout the primary recruitment process. Failure to attend all events to which a PNM is invited will result in that PNM not maximizing their recruitment experience and may impact her ability to be placed at the conclusion of the recruitment process.
• Avidly avoid spreading rumors or making disparaging remarks about chapters, chapter members, or other potential new members in person or in written form, including social media.
• All excuses for missing any part of the primary recruitment process should be submitted via the Panhellenic recruitment excuse form and Panhellenic will work to make reasonable accommodations, where able, for the PNM and share that information directly with chapters in the case that PNM is missing recruitment events.
• Contact with active members of sororities during the recruitment process should be limited to ‘cordial contact’ and not include discussion of recruitment selection details. Any contact should be limited from the period following the final round of recruitment (preference) and bid day.
• Potential New Members are expected to be respectful to members of Panhellenic sororities who are working diligently to meet PNMs and welcome their newest members. Potential New Members should not spread rumors or make disparaging remarks about chapters, chapter members, or other PNMs in person or in written form, including on social media.
• Potential New Members should keep web cameras on during all virtual recruitment events to ensure they remain engaged throughout the process.
• PNMs will not record any part of virtual recruitment events.
• PNMs should work to be in a private space whenever possible during virtual recruitment events. Family members, roommates, friends, etc. should not also participate with a PNM in a virtual recruitment event.
• PNMs should not use their phone while in a chapter facility unless in the case of emergency. Filming using a phone or other device inside a chapter facility or recruitment event of a chapter is prohibited.
• If a PNM withdraws from the primary recruitment process, she should complete an exit survey to provide information about her decision to leave the process.

Violations of these expectations may result in removal from the primary recruitment process. At the very least, discussion will take place with Panhellenic Council leaders and advisors regarding the behavior in question.