Active: An initiated fraternity or sorority member who is affiliated with a campus chapter.
Alumna: A graduated member of a Women's sorority/fraternity (plural is alumnae).
Alumnus: A graduated member of a Men's fraternity (plural is alumni).
Badge: The badge of an initiated member is received during the initiation ceremony and worn in a designated location.
Bid: A formal invitiation for membership from a Greek-letter organization.
Big Brother/Sister: An initiated member of a fraternity or sorority who serves as a sponsor, advisor or special friend to a new member, guiding them through their new member program or initation.
Brother: A term used by fraternity members to refer to one another.
Call: A vocal sound (sometimes high-pitched) used by members of cultural based Greek organizations to acknowledge one another.
Chapter: A term used to describe the collegiate group of a fraternity or sorority.
Colony: A term used to describe the collegiate group of a fraternity or sorority in a new organization on the campus.
Crossed: The actual date of initiation into a cultural Greek organizaiton.
Deferred Recruitment: Refers to a time when the formal recruitment process happens in the second semester.
Dues: Monthly or semesterly costs of being in a fraternity or sorority.
Gamma Sigma Alpha: Members are juniors and seniors who are initated members of a fraternity or sorority and have attained a high standard of leadership and scholarship in the Greek Community.
Greeks: A term applied to members affiliated with Greek-letter organizations.
Greek Week: An annual celebration held in the spring in which chaptesr participate in athletic events, community service, brotherhood and sisterhood activities, an awards ceremony and various.
House Manager: A person who is hired to supervise the house.
Initiation: A traditional, secret ceremony that brings a new member into full Greek membership.
Intake: The educational process that one goes through in order to become an NPHC member.
Interfraternity Council (IFC): IFC is the governing body of all eight fraternities chartered/colonized at Elon. This organization provides leadership and programming for the chapters.
Legacy: A potential member whose grandparent, parent, brother or sister is a member of a fraternity or sorority.
Line: The members of a cultural Greek organization new member class.
New Member: A potential member who has accepted a bid from a fraternity or sorority. May also be referred to as an "associate".
Neophyte: A new member of a cultural Greek organization.
Non-affiliated: Those Elon students not involved with an inter/national Greek-letter organization. Often referred to as "independents".
National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC): NPHC is the governing body of all seven historically African-American fraternities and sororities chartered at Elon. This organization provides leadership and programming for the chapters.
Order of Omega: Members are juniors and seniors who are initated members of a fraternity or sorority and have attained a high standard of leadership and scholarship in the Greek Community.
Panhellenic Council (PHC): PHC is the governing body of all nine sororities charter at Elon. This organization provides leadership and programming for the chapters.
Philanthropy: A community service and/or fund-raising project sponsored by a chapter.
Potential Member: An individual interested in becoming a member of a fraternity or sorority.
Probate/New Member Step Exhibition: A stepping routine put on by the new members of an organization to signify their accomplishments.
Quota: The number of women to whom each sorority may extend bids.
Recruitment: Refers to the process by which chapters select new members.
Rho Lambda: Members are juniors and seniors who are initated members of a sorority and have attained a high standard of leadership and scholarship in the Greek Community.
Ritual: The traditional, secret initation ceremonies of a fraternity or sorority.
Recruitment Counselor (Phi Chi): A representative from a sorority that aids female potential members in their formal recruitment process.
Sister: A term used by sorority members to refer to one another.
Stepping: An elaborate performance involving dance, marching and the traditional culture of an organization.
Stroll: A line dance done by members of cultural Greek organizaitons (Usually at a party or step show).
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