It's All Greek to Me!
When you consider the process of recruitment and joining a sorority, you may feel like you have entered into foreign territory with the use of new terms and phrases. Below you will find explanations for a few key sorority-related terms:
- Active Member: An undergraduate sorority member who has been initiated by her chapter.
- Alumna: A sorority member who is no longer a member of a collegiate chapter (plural is alumnae).
- Bid: A formal invitation to join a sorority of fraternity.
- Chapter: A membership unit of a national or international sorority or fraternity.
- Continuous Open Bidding (COB) or Continuous Open Recruitment (COR): COB/COR bids may be extended and accepted at any time during the school year other than Formal Recruitment.
- Formal Recruitment: A designated membership recruitment period comprised of a series of events hosted by each sorority, scheduled and governed by the Panhellenic Association.
- Fraternity: Greek-letter organizations that are characterized by a ritual, badge, and a strong tie of friendship. Informally, women's fraternities are called sororities.
- Greeks: Sorority and fraternity members.
- Initiation: The formal ceremony that brings a new member into full membership.
- Legacy: A woman whose mother, sister, or in some cases grandmother, is an alumna or active member of a National Panhellenic Conference sorority.
- National Panhellenic Conference: NPC is a governing body composed of 26 national women's fraternities.
- New Member: A woman who has accepted a sorority bid but is not yet an initiated member. In Alpha Delta Pi, we call these members "Alphas". We will never refer to you as a "pledge".
- Panhellenic Association: The College Panhellenic Association is a cooperative campus organization of all NPC sororities on UNT's campus.
- Philanthropy: A service project undertaken by Greek organizations at the campus, community, or national level. Most national organizations have a designated cause to which they serve.
- Potential New Member (PNM): Any woman interested in becoming a sorority member who is eligible to join according to the Panhellenic Association's requirements.
- Recruitment Counselors (Rho Gammas): Greek women carefully selected and trained to guide potential new members through the formal recruitment process.
- Sorority: A Greek-letter sisterhood.
Greek Alphabet
