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Terms

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• Active:

• A woman who has been initiated into lifelong sorority membership.

• Alumna:
  An initiated sorority member who has graduated from college.

• Bid:
  A formal invitation given to a potential new member to join a sorority.

• Chapter:
  The local group of a national sorority.

• Initiation:
  A formal ceremony through which new members become active members, sisters, of a sorority.

• Interfraternity Council (IFC):
  The inter-fraternity programming and governing body; the fraternities’ equivalent of the Panhellenic Council.

• Legacy:
  A woman whose mother, sister or grandmother is an active member or alumna of a sorority.

• New Member:
  A woman who has accepted a sorority’s bid for membership but has not yet been initiated.

• Panhellenic Council (PHC):
  The inter-sorority programming and governing body.

• Philanthropy:
  A charitable fund-raiser or service project sponsored by a sorority or fraternity.

• Rho Gamma:
  A sorority member who leads a Recruitment group of PNMs through the stages of Recruitment. She is unbiased and is willing to honestly answer any questions about sororities and recruitment.

• Potential New Member (PNM):
  A woman who is participating in recruitment, commonly referred to as a PNM.

• Quota:
  The maximum number of new members a sorority may accept through Formal Recruitment.

• Recommendation:
  A written letter sent by an alumna recommending a woman for membership in a sorority.

• Sister:
  A term used by sorority members in the same chapter to refer to one another.