Phi Alpha Delta
Prospective Member Program
Dear
Prospective Member:
Welcome to
our Phi Alpha Delta informational meeting!
The
following pages contain essential information that you will need to know about
our prospective member program. Most
importantly, if you would need to contact any of the officers for whatever
reason, included is all of their contact information. Another excellent resource for you would be
our website (www.uiowa.edu/~pad/).
We gather input from members and keep it updated with information to
benefit active and prospective members of Phi Alpha Delta. We strongly encourage you to visit it! All of our contact information and meeting
dates are posted there as well.
As
Vice-President, I will be working closely with you, the prospective member
class, to make sure all of your questions are answered. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any
questions, concerns and ideas! The
Executive Board has created many fun and educational events for you to attend,
which will give you the opportunity to meet other members. I strongly encourage you to attend as many as
possible because it will be to your advantage to meet members of your class and
active members as well. However, we are
all college students and realistically school and work can tie us all down
sometimes. Please don’t
let this get in the way of the Phi Alpha Delta experience. We are flexible to your needs because we want
you to enjoy your time with us and we want to help you get your foot in the
door of law school!
On behalf
of the Executive Board of Phi Alpha Delta, we would like to thank you for
coming out tonight. We can’t wait to see you at our upcoming events! We have a lot of great things planned-so don’t miss out!
Sincerely,
PAD Executive Board
2005-2006 Phi
Alpha Delta Executive Board
President:
Megan
Thole
Vice PresidentS (Pledge Program):
Mike
Fitzpatrick
&
Alan
Stewart
Treasurer (Dues):
Danielle Rub
Secretary (Attendance):
Sara
Pfeiffer
Volunteering:
Sarah
McCool
Educational Chairs:
Brett
Johnson
Public Relations Chair:
Jennifer Mueller
Social Chair:
Naeda
Elliot
&
Fundraising Chair:
Elizabeth Pick
AlumnI Chairs:
Allison
Juhl
&
Libby
Spotts
WEBMASTER:
Adam
Wiederholt
Our
mailbox & office are in the SAC on the ground floor of the IMU
Phi Alpha Delta
Prospective Member Program
Our
prospective member program is based around a point system. The maximum amount of points you can receive
is 45 and the minimum amount of points to be considered for initiation is 35. Events for a prospective member to attain
their points from will be held throughout this semester, which ends with an
initiation ceremony only if that member is eligible. The point system is based on the following:
Point
Distribution:
Volunteering: 10
Parent
Meeting & Social: 10
Educational: 10
Social: 5
Dues: 5-0
Exam: 5-0
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Total: 45 pts
If
you know in advance that you cannot make it to one of these events, you must
give documentation to the Executive Board.
However, in the event of an emergency, please notify us as soon as
possible.
VOLUNTEERING
(10 pts):
Throughout
the semester there will be opportunities to choose from for the volunteering
portion of the point system. You are
required to attend at least one of these events. You will receive 10 points for attending one
of these. (If you know of any service
projects/volunteering in the community that you would like our organization to
participate in, please let the Volunteering Chairperson know.)
PARENT
MEETING & SOCIAL (10 pts):
Later on
in the semester we will be having a pledge-parent guessing. This is a social event worth 5 points in
which you will guess the identity of your parent. The Vice President will match you to a pledge
parent, (active member of the organization who volunteered to initiate
prospective members). Hazing
practices by any members are not allowed and will result in the removal of the
offending member from the organization.
If this happens, let the President know immediately. Your pledge parent will give you
information that you will need to know for the Initiation exam and can be of
further help to answering your questions about Phi Alpha Delta. Aside from the pledge-parent guessing social,
you will need to meet with your parent one more time outside of Phi
Alpha Delta to receive the full 10 points.
EDUCATIONAL
(10 pts):
The main
goal of our organization is to help you the best that we can with any pre-law
questions. Throughout the semester there
will be opportunities to choose from for the educational portion of the point
system. You are required to attend at
least one of these events. You will
receive 10 points for attending one of these.
(If you have any ideas or issues about law school that you would like
to see addressed as an educational, please let the Educational Chairs know.)
SOCIALS
(5 pts):
Attending
socials is a great way to get to know other members of your class and
active members as well. The
pledge-parent guessing falls into this category, along with other social events
the Executive Board has planned. You are
required to attend at least one of the socials, ideally the
pledge-parent guessing. You will receive
5 points for attending one of these.
DUES
and application (5-0pts):
Dues and
applications will need to be turned in to the Treasurer BY NEXT FRIDAY! The cost is $100.00, check only, written
out to PHI ALPHA DELTA. $70 of the
dues is sent to Nationals and $30 is kept for our local chapter. Once you are an active member dues are
reduced to $30 per academic year. The
Nationals portion of your dues is a one-time fee. If you have a reason to delay the payment of
dues, please do not hesitate to let the Treasurer know before NEXT FRIDAY!
Point
Distribution for Dues & Application:
Today-NEXT
Friday 5 pts
After NEXT
Friday 0 pts
INITIATION
EXAM (5-0 pts):
The exam
contains five multiple-choice questions regarding the history and philosophy of
Phi Alpha Delta. For each question you
answer correctly, you will earn 1 point; therefore the maximum amount of points
you can earn from the test is 5, minimum being 0. All the information you will need to know for
the exam will be given to you by your parent.
VOTING
Closer to
the end of the semester, after the Initiation exam, each prospective member
will be voted on by active members. The
Executive Board recommends that only those prospective members earning 35
points and above be voted into the group.
Again, if for any reason attendance is/becomes a conflict, you need
to let the Executive Board know immediately. It is to your advantage to attend the events
offered by Phi Alpha Delta to interact with active members.
MEETINGS
Meetings are an essential part of Phi Alpha Delta and occur every other week. You will be excused from meeting for class, illness and emergencies. All other conflicts can be brought up to the Executive Board.
This is a
required event for all members of this organization, as prospective members who
have been voted in will become full members of Phi Alpha Delta. Time, location and date will be announced
later on in the semester, as well as posted online. As with all other circumstances, if for some
reason you would not be able to attend this ceremony you MUST let the
Executive Board know immediately. If
possible, last minute emergencies should be communicated to the Executive Board
by telephone.
APPLICATIONS
& DUES NEED TO BE TURNED IN BY NEXT FRIDAY!!! YOU CAN TURN THESE IN TO THE TREASURER, THE
OFFICE DESK OR MAILBOX IN AN ENVELOPE. IT
IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU GIVE IT TO THE TREASURER IN PERSON BECAUSE OF MONETARY
VALUE.