What I mean is that NPHC does not necessarily initiate all of it's pledges/new members, but they don't have a formal pan-NPHC recruitment that is widely advertised with a "guaranteed" pledge class of women they've never met before. NPC uses a formal recruitment process that is followed by all NPC groups on a campus. We are basically set up to very publicly take in new members and are expected to keep said new members. NPHC is a lot more circumspect in their intake practices...ie. they don't talk about it, so how do I really know that they take 20 and only initiate 2? I have to take their word for it because their system is set up to be secretive not public...and that's the way they want it! Trust me, there were no thinly veiled insults in my original post!

Depends on the campus.

Wearing Letters is a big no no if you are not a member of my Org. Even wearing the colors would get you looked at crazy if you were a potential!!!

So..what exactly ARE you allowed to wear? I'm pretty sure almost all colors are GLO colors.

Go naked? Oh wait..that's in the buff...

If your interested in joining my org, and you show up to the interest meeting in the same colors as our ORG, it is not looked as as flatering, it is usually perceived as a bit bold..
So do your research learn the history and the colors and wear something nuetral to that specific org your seeking membership into.

Then again Maybe it is just a HBGLO thing.

guess i misheard you. i'm pretty sure every org in NPHC, have set regimented and universal (albeit private) guidelines for new member intake from the moment of expressing interest to the moment you become a member, whether or not a NM completes the process is a whole 'nother ballgame.

I don't quite understand your post. Especially when youa re talking about pledges/new members. We (NPHC) have new members in the sense they just were initiated versus someone else in the chapter who has been in for a year or more.

Are you possicbly referring to the 20 mentioned above as the amount that would show up to a rush and the 2 as ones who actually make it?

Not brown and gold if you are interested in Iota Phi Theta.

It's pretty self-explanatory.

I think you are confused by tht post as I am.

We do not have new members that are not initiated.

i'll give an example. let's say an orgs colors are.....(btw, i'm not targeting any org, if these are your colors, they are purely coincidential):

pink and silver.

if an interest comes PURPOSELY wearing those colors, or any other symbols of the org (say pearls or diamonds), that signals to the members that this interest is taking a rather presumptive attitude. You have not earned the ability to wear those colors or symbols. I'm not saying if you show up in say jeans and a white shirt w/pink and silver on it, but if you are wearing a pink shirt with silver pants with silver shoes, pink and silver bracelet, and (if one of the org's symbol is pearls), wear pearls around your neck, you 1. obviously need to take more time to learn about the greek culture, and 2. again being rather rude and presumptive.

i agree, it could just be differences in what we mean by new member. for most non-NPC/IFC, a new member is one that has completed all membership intake process and has been initiated into the organization (you can refer to them as soror, sister, etc.). We generally refer to new members as neophytes or neos. (older members can be referred to as prophytes)

I read several of the posts and I must say I'm a little confussed as to what each sorority views a new member vs. a pledge. I think that may be the topic at hand. A new member means you are a member of that sorority and you have passed through initation but pledging is the learning process before you can be considered a member. For my sorority we do not allow pledges to wear letters. How ever initiation night bigs give their littles their first letters and the littles give their bigs a paddle. The new members are a part of our sorority but they can wear letters as they please.

I've never heard of the terms neo or neophyte or prophyte we call our new members either new girls or newbies. and the older members are older sisters. But I do like neo and prophyte.

What sorority are you a member of? For the 26 NPC sororities, a new member is someone who has received and accepted a bid but has not been initiated yet.

I am a sister of AEPhi. I guess definitions got misconstrued over the years. I'll double check my constitution and bylaws but I may be mistaken. That was the way it was described to me though.