Potential New Member Bill of Rights
 

*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 sorority 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 have and express opinions to 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 experience.

I got this from my Guide to the Greeks when I rushed and thought it would be something useful for PNMs to know.

Those are great. The one that is hard to control concerns the Rho Chis. Some girls don't feel there is 100% privacy and confidentiality.

I would think this is one of the highest honors and most trusted positions anyone could hold.

My daughter had a fabulous Rho Chi, but when she cut a particular sorority, she could sense a change.

I always wanted to be a Rho Chi, but now that I look back on it, I would have probably done the same thing. No matter how much you believe in Greek unity, if a girl you think would make a perfect sister cuts your chapter, it's hard to keep smiling and remain objective.

Rho Chis
 

One of my sisters has been a Rho Chi for the past two recruitments...whenever a potential would come to her to talk about being torn between two sororities, my sister would never ask which two. Instead, she would say "Let's call the 1st sorority ABC and the 2nd one XYZ." Then she would ask the potential what she liked and didn't like about both sorority ABC and sorority XYZ. That way, she wasn't put in the situation where she might react to something negative about her own sorority...or act excited if the potential was interested in her sorority.

I think the PNM Rights thing is awsome. I wish the Rho Chi I had my freshman year would have had her hands on this, then maybe I wouldn't have dropped out of rush (like she would have followed it). I also think there should be a PNM responsibilities. They would include respecting the house your in, not bashing other orgs while talking to other houses, not trying to pry into ritual, etc.