You have made one of the biggest decisions of your life to go to college. Congratulations! However, that’s not the only decision that you’ll have to make when it comes to college life. Another important decision that you’ll probably make is the decision to go Greek in college. Greek life has lots of benefits to offer to its members – opportunities to build a network, social/community activities to participate in, a strong brotherhood bond to maintain, and many more!  However, one of the biggest challenges college guys face at the beginning of their Greek life is choosing the right fraternity for themselves.... Read more

Every fall, before Panhellenic even prints the first recruitment schedule, some chapters are already working. Not doing anything official. Not breaking any rule you can point to on paper. Just... talking. Texting. Sliding into DMs. And every year, someone on council figures it out three weeks too late to do anything meaningful about it. ... Read more

If you've never watched sorority recruitment from the outside, you might assume it's all small talk and outfit coordination. But philanthropy round - the second stop in formal recruitment - is where I think the whole thing starts to mean something. The Red and Black covered round two of Sorority Rush 2026 at UGA, and the photos tell a story that's easy to miss if you're not paying attention. ... Read more

A former fraternity leader at Northern Arizona University just pleaded guilty to hazing charges connected to a student's death. Let that sit for a second. Not suspended. Not put on probation. A guilty plea in a case where someone died. And I'm writing this as a guy who actually joined a fraternity - someone who signed the bid card, went through the process, and is still a member. Because I think that context matters here. ... Read more

I didn't expect my chapter to matter after graduation. Honestly, I thought the whole "sisterhood lasts forever" thing was just something they said during recruitment to make you feel warm about paying dues. And then I graduated into one of the worst job markets for communications majors in recent memory, and a sister I'd met exactly twice at chapter events referred me for the job I have now. ... Read more

Every fall, somewhere across the country, a new freshman walks into a gym full of strangers, picks up a packet of information about Greek life, and has absolutely no idea what they just stepped into. Troy University just made that moment front page news - and honestly, good for them. Move-In Day to Bid Day is a real journey, and most schools treat it like a logistics problem instead of what it actually is: the first chapter of somebody's college story. ... Read more

Every fraternity house I've ever walked into has some version of it. A shared drive, a binder shoved in a desk drawer, a GroupMe thread full of PDFs. Old exams, professor notes, highlighted study guides passed down from one pledge class to the next. It's one of those things that nobody really talks about openly but everybody kind of knows exists. And after years inside Greek life, I think it's time we actually had the honest conversation about what this stuff is, what it isn't, and why the answer isn't as clean as either side wants it to be. ... Read more

UCF put out a guide on social activities and belonging on campus, and it's the kind of thing that sounds great in a press release. A resource for students to find community, get involved, feel connected. Good stuff. Except when you've spent time inside Panhellenic governance, you read something like this and immediately start wondering what it's actually saying versus what it's leaving out. ... Read more

Before I joined a fraternity, I thought a chapter's social reputation was basically just gossip dressed up as useful information. Older students throwing shade at other houses, recruitment bias baked into word-of-mouth, cliques deciding who's cool and who isn't. I figured most of it was noise. Turns out I was half right - and half completely wrong. ... Read more

Molloy University is getting Greek life for the first time, and honestly, I've been thinking about this more than I probably should. A small Catholic university on Long Island, building Greek chapters from scratch in 2024 - that's not a footnote. That's a genuinely interesting experiment in what Greek life looks like when it doesn't have decades of entrenched culture behind it. ... Read more

There's this moment every spring semester where you see a bunch of guys who have never touched a musical instrument in their lives suddenly trying to choreograph a full production number in the chapter parking lot at 11pm. That's Greek Sing week. And honestly, it's one of the best things Greek life does - full stop. ... Read more

There's something about the University of Alabama's sorority recruitment that just hits different from anywhere else in the country. Every single year, without fail, you see the stories pop up - thousands of potential new members, houses that look like wedding venues, and a process so organized it could make a logistics company jealous. WVUA 23 is reporting that Alabama sororities are gearing up for another recruitment cycle, and honestly, watching this from the outside as an IFC guy, I have a lot of thoughts. ... Read more

I've sat through more Panhellenic council meetings than I can count, and if there's one thing I can tell you with full confidence, it's that the current sorority recruitment model is held together with duct tape and tradition. Not good tradition either. The kind of tradition that exists because nobody wanted to be the person who raised their hand and said this isn't working anymore. ... Read more

Everyone tells pledges the same thing: work hard, show up, be humble. And that advice isn't wrong exactly - it's just incomplete. Because there's a version of "being humble" that slowly turns you into someone who doesn't push back on anything, agrees with everyone, and spends an entire semester shrinking. That version doesn't make you a good pledge. It makes you invisible. And chapters don't actually respect invisible people. ... Read more

So apparently you can hire someone to coach you through sorority recruitment. Not a therapist, not a guidance counselor, not your mom who went through it herself decades ago - an actual paid coach whose whole job is to help you get into a sorority. The Clarion-Ledger ran a piece on this recently, specifically about Mississippi, where recruitment anxiety has gotten so intense that a cottage industry of rush coaches has popped up to meet the demand. And my first reaction was to laugh. My second reaction was to think about it for five minutes and realize this was probably inevitable.< ... Read more