USC Aiken Panhellenic Association

                 What is NPC?

                National Panhellenic Conference is a conference body. Its members are women's

                fraternities, each of which is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter society of college women,

                undergraduates and alumnae. NPC is an organization established to foster interfraternity

                relationships, to assist collegiate chapters, and to cooperate with colleges and universities in

                maintaining the highest scholastic and social standards. 

               The Panhellenic Creed

                 We, as Undergraduate Members of women's fraternities, stand for good scholarship, for

                for guarding of good health, for maintenance of fine standards, and for serving, to the best of our

                ability, our community. Cooperation fro furthering fraternity life, in harmony with its

                best possibilities, is the ideal that shall guide our fraternity activities.

                We, as Fraternity Women, stand for service through the development of character inspired by

                the close contact and deep friendship of individual fraternity and Panhellenic life. The

                opportunity for wide and wise human service, through mutual respect and helpfulness, is the

                tenet by which we strive to live.

               This We Believe

               Fraternity

                   Fraternity is a social experience based on the fundamental right of a free people to form

                     voluntary associations. It is one of the enrichments of college life.

                  Mutual Choice

                   The young woman who wants fraternity experience will find it possible to belong on most

                    campuses today. Fraternity membership is a social experience arrived at by mutual

                    choice and selection. Fraternity membership is by invitation.

                 Fraternities exist because they:

                   1. Provide a good democratic social experience

                     2. Give value beyond college years.

                     3. Create, through their ideals, an ever widening circle of service beyond membership

                     4. Develop the individuals potential through leadership opportunities and group effort

                     5. Fill the need of belonging

              Fraternities continue because:

                   1. Young women feel a continuing need to belong

                     2. Parents appreciate fraternity values and standards and cooperate to make

                       membership possible

                     3. College administrations, recognizing the values of fraternities, continue

                       to welcome them on their campuses and to invite them to establish new chapters