No men or alcohol are allowed at NPC recruitment functions. If you are joining a sorority for the parties and the men, you are joining for the wrong reasons. If you make these goals clear to those that are interviewing you during recruitment, most likely you will be dropped.
Sorority life is, first and foremost, about friendship and love. Secondly, and equally as important, is a strong and supportive atmosphere of scholarship. Next will be opportunities to serve your community through philanthropy events. Leaders are perfected or made during college years and serving your chapter in an office or committee position will help you develope the leadership and maturity you need to succeed in the 'real world'. Read the creed or mission from any of the 26 National Panhellenic Conference member fraternities. You'll see that the words 'party', 'men',and 'fun' do not appear. For example, here is the creed of my fraternity, Zeta Tau Alpha. These are words we strive to live by every day and take them very much to heart:
To realize that within our grasp, in Zeta Tau Alpha, lies the opportunity to learn those things which will ever enrich and ennoble our lives; to be true to ourselves, to those within and without our circle; to think in terms of all mankind and our service in the world; to be steadfast, strong, and clean of heart and mind, remembering that since the thought is father to the deed, only that which we would have manifested in our experience should be entertained in thought; to find satisfaction in being, rather than seeming, thus strengthening in us the higher qualities of the spirit; to prepare for service and learn the nobility of serving, thereby earning the right to be served; to seek understanding that we might gain true wisdom; to look for the good in everyone; to see beauty, with its enriching influence; to be humble in success, and without bitterness in defeat; to have the welfare and harmony of the Fraternity at heart, striving ever to make our lives a symphony of high ideals, devotion to the right, the good, and the true, without a discordant note; remembering always that the foundation precept of Zeta Tau Alpha was love, "the greatest of all things."
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