Division of Student Affairs

Potential New Member Bill of Rights

Each Potential 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 counselors and members.
• 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 counselors.
• The right to have inviolable confidentiality when sharing information with recruitment counselors.
• The right to make informed choices without undue pressure from others.
• The right to be fully informed about the binding agreements implicit in the preference card signing.
• 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.
• The right to not be persuaded by a sorority member to resign her bid to any sorority during her new member period.