How to register for recruitment with the University Panhellenic Council (UPC)

Recruitment registration begins on May 1, 2008 and ends August 19, 2008. Any registration form received before this time will be returned. If you use our online recruiting registration, you receive a $10 discount off the regular registration fee of $80. In order to complete the online application, you will need a digital or scanned photo of yourself for identification purposes. All registrations postmarked after the early registration deadline of July 31st will be subject to a $85 registration fee.

Beginning in Summer 2008, paper registration forms will be available or upon request of Greek Life and Intercultural Education at 512-471-9700. Please do not send resumes or additional documentation. Send the completed form and one wallet-size photo by July 31, 2008 along with your registration fee (check or money order only, made payable to University Panhellenic Council) to:

The University Panhellenic Council
ATTN: Andrea Handzus
1 University Station, A5800
Austin, Texas 78712

Registration Fee:
$80 if postmarked by July 31, 2008;
$85 after July 31, 2008.
August 19, 2008 is the last day to register for UPC Recruitment.

Academic Year and Summer Contacts

The following rules apply to any potential new member, who is a high school senior or junior, or within her first year as a University of Texas student.

• Potential new members may not attend any organized sorority function outside of formal recruitment events.
• No oral or written invitations can be made to a potential new member by a sorority member or representative to attend any activity or social function.
• Potential new members may not be deliberately contacted in any way. This includes telephone calls, letters, and gifts of any sort.
• Potential new members may attend local alumnae Panhellenic activities. Legacies may attend one alumnae-sponsored function per sorority to which she is a legacy, as long as that event occurs before June 1, 2008.
• Potential new members are strongly discouraged from attending any fraternity activities.
• A potential new member may not stay overnight in a sorority house unless she is a sister of a sorority member living in the house.
• No more than three representatives from a chapter may converse with a potential new member at the same time and at no time should a potential new member be removed from the general vicinity of the recruitment event.

Silence

Definition: Silence means no conversation or contact between potential new members and sorority members, alumnae or chapter representatives except at specified Panhellenic recruitment events. Potential new members may not discuss sorority membership with other potential new members.

Reason: Silence allows potential new members to make decisions free from outside pressures and opinions of others.

Rules: Silence begins at 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 15, 2008. Potential new members may not attend fraternity parties. Potential new members may not receive anything from any representative of a sorority until they have accepted their bids. Sorority representatives may not issue oral invitations to parties or to pledge.

Silence Ends: A potential new member who registers for formal recruitment is on silence until 3:00 p.m. on Bid Day even if she withdraws from