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I was a recruitment counselor and our Panhellenic had very strict disaffiliation rules. At the end of spring semester, all recruitment counselors had to remove any sorority symbols from their cars, and were not allowed to wear letters.

In addition, we were asked to request that any sisters we socialized with in public during this time did not wear letters around us.

Over the summer, Recruitment Counselors met weekly with Panhellenic to learn how to be a counselor. We also had Panhellenic office hours to process paperwork from PNM's applications and to answer the phones regarding recruitment questions. We attended an overnight RC retreat and were given "Recruitment Counselor" T-Shirts to wear. (It helped to fill the void of not wearing our own letters!) RC's really bonded and developed a special sisterhood of their own!

During the week of recruitment, recruitment counselors and Panhellenic Exec are kept in a hotel. You weren't allowed to be alone. You had to be accompanied by another RC at ALL times, and that RC had to be a member of a different sorority. Also, during the week of recruitment, the RC's had no contact with their sorority, weren't allowed to call their sisters, talk to them if they saw them outside of recruitment events, etc.

It was a bit much, to be honest. But our affiliation was a secret until Bid Day. We made it a guessing game with our PNM's during recruitment, and they had a blast trying to figure out what sorority their counselor was a member of!

We were called Rho Chi's. Then NPC changed the official name to Sigma Rho Chi, and left it up to campuses to decide what to call sorority recruitment counselors, as Rho Chi was no longer an option (due to their already being a Rho Chi GLO-- I think it is a pre-professional honor society?). So now at my campus, they are Rho Gammas, or Recruitment Guides.