HELLE N N I A C P RECRUITMENT GUIDE W U P I T H A P I E D E O E K N M S O C I A L All of the icons have embedded links for your convenience Click on the icons on each page to be taken directly to the site! 2 Social Media 4 Terminology S 6 Why Go Greek T 8 Letter from the President 9 Letter from the Director of Recruitment 10 Panhellenic Executive Council N 12 Gamma Chis 16 Recruitment Calendar & Important Dates E 17 Tips & Tricks 18 Go Greek T 19 Philanthropy 20 Sisterhood 21 Preference N 22 Bid Day 23 Recruitment Week Outfits O Back to the Basics 24 Values Based Recruitment & Mutual Selection 24 DEI & InterGreek Committee C 25 Legacies + Letters of Recommendation 26 Academic & Financial Obligations 27 Recruitment Rules & Policies + Potential New Member Bill of Rights F 28 Potential New Member Contract 30 Code of Ethics 31 MRABA O Chapter Spotlights 35 Alpha Chi Omega 37 Alpha Delta Pi 39 Chi Omega E 41 Delta Delta Delta 43 Delta Gamma L 45 Kappa Delta 47 Phi Mu B 49 Pi Beta Phi 51 Zeta Tau Alpha 53 Q & A A 54 Student Services 55 Sponsors T TERMINOLOGY - Active: A sorority member currently in college, who has been formally initiated by her chapter. - MSU College Panhellenic: Represents NPC and is the coordinating body for the 9 NPC women’s organizations on the Mississippi State University campus. - Aluma: An initiated sorority member who is no longer active in a collegiate chapter. - Bid: A formal invitation to join a sorority or fraternity. - Campus Total: The permissible chapter size as determined by the College Panhellenic. - Chapter: The local group of a national fraternity or sorority. - Continuous Open Bidding (COB): The period in which a sorority that has not met the Campus Total is able to recruit members. - Guaranteed Placement: If a PNM maximizes her options and attends a Preference party (or two Preference parties if she has been invited to two), then she is guaranteed a bid from a sorority. - Infraction: Any violation of a rule set by the University Panhellenic Council, as governed by the National Panhellenic Conference. - Intake: Also referred to as Membership Intake, this is a process whereby NPHC and MGC sororities select new members. - Interfraternity Council (IFC): The governing body for 17 fraternities at Mississippi State University - Intentional Single Preference: When a PNM attends more than one preference event but limits her membership selections by not listing all of her chapter options on her MRABA. - Legacy: A PNM whose mother, sister, and sometimes grandmother is an alumna or active member in a particular sorority. Please see the Legacy page for further explanation. - Maximizing Your Options: When a PNM attends all parties that she is invited to, as the maximum party number per day will allow. - MRABA (Membership Recruitment Acceptance Binding Agreement): A document that each Potential New Member completes immediately following the preference round of parties, ranking her membership preferences. This is a binding agreement, stating that a PNM is willing to accept a bid from any sorority she lists. 2021 Recruitment Guide | 4 - Mutual Selection: The process by which sororities invite PNMs to return, and PNMs make lists in order of which houses they would most like to return. - National Panhellenic Conference (NPC): Founded in 1902, NPC provides support and guidance for its 26 member inter/national sororities and women’s fraternities and serves as the national voice on contemporary issues of sorority life. MSU has 9 NPC affiliated sororities. - National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC): A council composed of the nine (“Divine Nine”) historically African American Greek-letter organizations, of which MSU NPHC has 8. - New Member: The period when a woman joins a sorority but is not yet initiated into the chapter. - Philanthropy: A national and/or local charity that a sorority sponsors, donating time and money through service in order to promote human welfare. - Potential New Member (PNM): Any woman who is eligible to participate in Primary Recruitment or Continuous Open Bidding. - Primary Recruitment: A designated membership recruitment period during which a series of organized events are held for the purpose of selecting new members. - Quota: The number of women a sorority may pledge during primary or informal recruitment. - Letter of Recommendation: Also called a “rec”; a written letter or statement from an alumna, on the sorority’s official recommendation form, introducing and recommending Potential New Member for membership. - Recruitment Counselor (Gamma Chi): Greek women who are carefully selected and trained to guide PNMs and answer any questions related to Panhellenic recruitment. These women are fully disaffiliated from their own chapters. - Snap Bid: A procedure used at the end of recruitment to help chapters reach quota prior to bid distribution. - Strict Silence: A period of time when conversation and contact between PNMs and sorority actives, new members, alumni, and agents is strictly limited by the Panhellenic Recruitment Bylaws. - Values-Based Recruitment: The emphasis of focusing on how your values (such as academics, equality, inclusion, service, etc.) align with different chapters’ values. 2021 Recruitment Guide | 5 WHY GO GREEK? The Greek community here at Mississippi State University is united under our four core values: Sisterhood, Scholarship, Philanthropy, and Leadership. Through our emphasis on these values, women within our organizations are able to develop individually while also understanding the importance of community and relationships. S I S T E R H O O D : S C H O L A R S H I P : Sisterhood gives women the ability to It is important that our Panhellenic be a part of something that is bigger chapters emphasize the importance of than themselves because they are academics so that women are able to able to form connections and succeed in the classroom and in their relationships with others. A major part careers. of attending a university is to be able to meet people and make friends with Greek women at Mississippi state others, which is why our emphasis on consistently have a higher average sisterhood is beneficial for GPA than the all-women’s average undergraduate women. GPA. Greek women also have higher graduation rates compared to the Sisterhood unites women under a average college student. This is common goal of helping and accomplished due to the fact that empowering one another while every one of our chapters holds their sharing values and experiences. Our members to a higher academic Panhellenic community exemplifies standard by requiring women to this concept in many ways and we maintain their grades in order to are so excited to show you how remain active members. special sisterhood is at Mississippi State. Our sisterhood is so valuable Each chapter provides opportunities, because it is genuine, reliable, and such as having study parties, gives opportunities for us to push connecting members with similar each other to be the best we can be. majors, and providing encouragement to their members. Your overall Our Panhellenic community cannot academic success can benefit greatly wait to welcome, support, and by being a member of a Panhellenic strengthen the 2021 New Members of chapter. We understand that success all chapters. All nine of our chapters within the classroom is one of the are committed to promoting the most important aspects of college and community of sisterhood that will be our Panhellenic community can give there well beyond your college years. you a strong support system as you prioritize this role of being a student. 2021 Recruitment Guide | 6 P H I L A N T H R O P Y : L E A D E R S H I P : Philanthropy is an enormous part of Something that makes our Greek life here at Mississippi State. community unique is the leadership Each of our chapters is partnered opportunities that are created for with a local, national, or international members. Our chapters value charity. They dedicate a large leadership and therefore encourage portion of their time and funding in members to become involved within order to help these nonprofit the chapter, on campus, and in the organizations, which shows that community. Greek women’s interests and impacts go far beyond their own There are countless skills that can be chapters. developed through these opportunities, such as effective Typically, each chapter has two to communication, organization, three major philanthropy events per management, and more. Greek life year in which their members also helps women get connected with volunteer and fundraise. These on-campus organizations, such as events include mentoring programs, honor societies, pre-professional various food and sweets late nights, organizations, cultural-based sporting events, and many more organizations, and many others. service-based activities. These events are planned by our individual All of this helps broaden your time at chapters and are often open to the Mississippi State and helps you to get entire community to attend and the most out of your years here, since participate in. we know that leadership is useful not only while in college but after college Service is truly important to our as well. Being a part of the Greek chapters and it is not just about the community provides incredible money that our women raise, but the networking opportunities, which help love that they are able to share with women begin to build their future with our community in order to show a community and support system them how much they are cared for. behind them. 2021 Recruitment Guide | 7 A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT WELCOME TO THE MISSISSIPPI STATE BULLDOG FAMILY! I am SO excited that you have decided to join us in Starkville for Panhellenic Recruitment 2021.