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Say 'Goodbye' to Rho Chi


NPC requests Panhellenic colleges use term Recruitment Counselor

The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) is asking colleges that use the term Rho Chi during recruitment to use the title Recruitment Counselor in its place.


Executive Vice President of the Rho Chi Society national office Wayne Pittman contacted the National Panhellenic with his concern about the use of the term Rho Chi.


The Rho Chi Society, established in 1922, is an academic honor society for pharmacy students.


NPC said Pittman called to their attention the fact that confusion has developed between Panhellenic Rho Chis and Rho Chi Society members.


"Out of respect for the Rho Chi Society and in order to eliminate any potential confusion between Panhellenic Rho Chis and the Rho Chi Society, if you currently use the term Rho Chi to describe our recruitment counselors, NPC is requesting that you stop this practice," NPC requested in a memo sent to college Panhellenics on November 6.


NPC Area Advisor for Arizona and New Mexico, Barbara Probst, said she thinks it is "perfectly acceptable" for the Rho Chi Society to request the term Rho Chi be removed from recruitment.


Probst said it has become convenient to use the term Rho Chi, but "we are in fact Recruitment Counselors."


The Rho Chi Society national office is located at the University of North Carolina and currently has 77 active Rho Chi chapters.


NPC said they understand the title change may require time to phase out the use of the term, but asks that each college Panhellenic "demonstrate their best efforts to ensure that this phase out will happen as soon as possible."