Plegdes wearing letters???

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

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!

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?

[CULater]

Originally Posted by 1908Revelations

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?

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)