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

Nobody told me that pledging a fraternity would also mean pledging my calendar. Fall semester of freshman year, I thought I had it figured out - class in the morning, chapter stuff in the evenings, weekends to myself. Then philanthropy weekend hit, homecoming planning started, formal prep began, and I looked up one day in October wondering how I was already behind in three classes. Picking a major inside Greek life isn't just about what you're passionate about. It's about what you can actually sustain when your chapter has a full social calendar and expects you to show up for all of it. ... Read more

I didn't join my fraternity until sophomore year, which meant I spent a full year watching Greek life from the outside. I went to a couple of open events, heard the mixed reviews from my floor, and mostly stayed skeptical. When I finally did join, one of the first things I noticed wasn't the brotherhood stuff people always talk about - it was how much one person's job affected the entire chapter's experience. The social chair. And I mean that in both directions. ... Read more

MSU just canceled fraternity recruitment activities following the death of a chapter member. That's the headline. And if you've ever sat on a Panhellenic or IFC council and watched a recruitment freeze play out in real time, you know that sentence contains about a hundred smaller disasters that nobody in the press release bothers to explain. ... Read more

Penn State just quietly walked back one of its own Greek life reforms - the one that delayed freshman recruitment until second semester. According to the Centre Daily Times, the university is allowing freshman recruitment to return to the fall, essentially reversing a policy that was supposed to give new students time to adjust to college before rushing. And I have thoughts. ... Read more

Every school has that one tradition that sounds incredible on paper and lands completely differently in real life. For a lot of campuses, that tradition is the serenade. On paper? Romantic, meaningful, a little theatrical. In practice? It depends almost entirely on whether your Greek community actually cares about it - and trust me, you can tell within about thirty seconds of watching one whether they do. ... Read more

A piece over at The Runner caught my attention this week - a first-person account of what it actually feels like to go through sorority recruitment. The writer called it surviving. That word choice alone tells you something about the experience that Panhellenic brochures never will. ... Read more

Every fall, I watched the same argument play out in Panhellenic meetings. Chapters would come in frustrated, convinced that values-based recruitment was just a rebrand of the same old process with nicer language slapped on top. And honestly? I get why they felt that way. Because when it's done badly, it kind of is. But when it's done right - and I've seen it done right - it changes who walks through the door, who stays, and who actually builds something worth having. ... Read more

Two Georgia Southern fraternities are under investigation, and honestly, I want to sit with that for a second before we all move on to the next news cycle. The story came out of WTOC, and while details are still limited, the pattern here is worth talking about. Because this isn't an isolated thing. It never is. ... Read more

Every fall, a fresh wave of new members gets told the same thing: we don't haze here. And look, a lot of chapters mean it. But the pledge process in 2025 is this weird mix of genuinely reformed practices and stuff that just got renamed. If you went through pledging even two or three years ago, some of it would feel familiar in ways that might surprise you. ... Read more

There's a version of Greek life that never goes viral. No TikTok house tours, no thousands of followers watching bid day, no national news coverage unless something goes wrong. That's the version playing out at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana - and honestly, it deserves more attention than it gets. ... Read more

Nobody warns you about the last few weeks. You're so focused on finals, job offers, and figuring out where your security deposit went that you almost miss the part where your chapter quietly starts wrapping up four years of your life with a handful of traditions that you'll still think about years later. And some of them - the good ones - hit way harder than you expected. ... Read more

Every semester I sat in Panhellenic council meetings watching chapters talk around accountability like it was a game of hot potato. Nobody wanted to say the quiet parts out loud. And then I'd go online and see GreekRank forums where PNMs were asking exactly the right questions - which chapters have grade probation, which ones got their philanthropy events pulled, which ones are recruiting off a one-year warning. The internet already knew. We just weren't saying it. ... Read more

The University of Utah just announced that sorority and fraternity recruitment is returning to campus this August. And if you're a current member, an incoming freshman, or someone who's been watching Greek life quietly fade at certain schools, that's worth paying attention to. Recruitment returning isn't just a scheduling update. It's a statement about what a university thinks Greek life is worth. ... Read more

There's a pattern on basically every campus you can name. One fraternity gets suspended. They come back. Two years later they're suspended again. Sometimes it's a different chapter of the same national organization at a different school, but it's the same story. And after watching this cycle play out across Greek life for four years, I have some thoughts about why it keeps happening - and what it actually means for everyone else stuck in the fallout. ... Read more