Category:Selection of Members

One of the most important obligations one undertakes when he becomes a member is the selection of new members to perpetuate the Fraternity. Before voting on candidates, the Regent should review in the chapter meeting the laws governing eligibility, and the laws and policy regarding selection of members.

A candidate cannot be considered formally pledged until receiving at least a 3/4 favorable vote of the chapter. Election to full membership is by later receiving at least a 2/3 favorable vote by of the chapter. Pledging and membership votes are by secret ballot, separate, and apart, of all student members of the chapter.

To achieve a truly secret, every member must vote in a way that no one can detect how he voted. A box especially designed to receive white balls and black balls (or cubes) is ideal. If a written or printed ballot is used, then every member must be required to print legibly on the ballot either "yes" or "no"( or “Y” or “N”).

It is the policy of Theta Tau that to be eligible for membership one should have the following characteristics:
 * Be of good character and firm convictions
 * Be a capable student and a person of practical ideas
 * Possess the essential qualities of brotherhood and an agreeable personality

Although athletic prowess, family wealth, social prominence, engaging personality, and brilliant mentality are all fortunate possessions, they are alone a basis for selection of members. While such possessions should not bar anyone to membership, the real test is something less easily defined. It is the personal attribute of a person whom you wish to have as a brother, whom you can take to your home, with whom you may live in close fraternal relationship, whose attributes will benefit the chapter and its members, whose abilities and interests will contribute to the development of the chapter’s program, and in whose friendship you will feel honor and pleasure.