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1. This competition is for Alpha Phi Chapters located in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia to recruit the highest number of registered members for the SELF Challenge during the promotion period.  Every eligible SELF Challenge member who signs up and designates your chapter as the recruiting affiliation will earn your chapter one vote.  The Alpha Phi Chapter that accumulates the most votes at the end of the competition will be declared the “Winner” and will receive a catered event for 100 people at an Alpha Phi secured location in the fall of 2009. 

Promotion begins on February 19, 2009, at 12:01 A.M. ET, and ends on June 30, 2009, at 11:59 P.M. ET, when all entries must be received.  Challenge participants must sign up via Self.com/challenge/alphaphi.com.  Challenge entries that are lost, late, misdirected, incorrect, garbled or incompletely received for any reason, including by reason of hardware, software, browser or network failure, malfunction, congestion or incompatibility at Sponsor’s servers or elsewhere, will not be eligible.  Sponsor, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the SELF Challenge entry process or the operation of the website.  Use of bots or other automated processes to enter is prohibited and may result in disqualification at the sole discretion of Sponsor.  Sponsor further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify any promotion not capable of completion as planned, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, force majeure or technical failures of any sort.  In the event of a dispute, SELF Challenge entries will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry.  “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization (e.g., business, educational institute) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

2. The Alpha Phi Chapter with the most entries at the end of the Promotion Period will be declared the winner.   All decisions of the judges are final and binding in all respects. The prize is a catered event with a deejay for 100 people in the fall 2009 semester.   Sponsor will choose the caterer.  No alcohol will be provided. The approximate retail value of the prize is $3,000.

3. All federal, state and/or local income and other taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winner.

4. Open only to Alpha Phi Collegiate Chapters in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. 

5. Subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations.  Void outside the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, and where prohibited.  Any violation of these rules may result in disqualification.  Sponsor is not responsible for errors in the administration or fulfillment of this contest, including without limitation mechanical, human, printing, distribution or production errors, and may modify or cancel this promotion based upon such error at its sole discretion without liability.

6. No prize or any portion thereof is transferable or redeemable for cash.  No substitutions for prize except by Sponsor, in which case a prize of equal or greater value will be substituted. 

 7. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Limit: one entry per person and per email address during the Promotion Period.

8. Except where prohibited: (i) Acceptance of prize constitutes the consent to use the winning Alpha Phi Chapter member’s names and likenesses for editorial, advertising and publicity purposes, without further compensation; (ii) members of the potential winning Alpha Phi Chapter may be required to sign an Affidavit of Eligibility  (including Social Security number) and Liability/Publicity release, which must be returned within ten (10) days of attempted notification or an alternate winner may be chosen. 

9. For the name of the winning Alpha Phi Chapter, send a self-addressed stamped envelope—after June 30, 2009, but before December 30, 2009—to Winner List, Alpha Phi and 2009 SELF Challenge, SELF Magazine Promotion Department, 4 Times Square, 5^th Floor, New York, NY 10036. The sponsor of this contest is Condé Nast Publications, 4 Times Square, New York, NY 10036.