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

I have a group chat with six women from my chapter. We text in it almost every week - sometimes about jobs, sometimes about nothing, sometimes about whatever drama is happening back on campus. And then there are about forty other women I pledged alongside, went through rituals with, shared a house with, who I genuinely haven't spoken to in over a year. Both groups came from the same sorority. Same bid day, same retreat, same composite photos on the wall. So what happened? ... Read more

Sophomore year, I was drowning in organic chemistry. I mean genuinely drowning - staying up until 2am with a textbook that might as well have been written in a foreign language. And then my big pulled me aside after chapter meeting and said, "You know Marcus graduated with a biochem degree, right? He still answers texts." I didn't know that. Nobody told me that. I texted Marcus, a Sigma Chi alumnus three years out, and he spent an hour on the phone walking me through reaction mechanisms he still remembered cold. I passed that exam. But more than that, I finally understood what I'd actually joined. ... Read more

Washington State University just announced they're ending fall Greek life rush as part of some new first-year student initiative. And look, I get it - administrators love initiatives. They love rolling them out at the start of an academic year with a press release and a lot of buzzwords about "student success." But killing fall rush isn't an initiative. It's a gut punch to every chapter on that campus, and I think most people running these programs know it. ... Read more

Before I joined a fraternity, I spent a full year scrolling through Greek life content and building up a picture in my head that was almost entirely wrong. Not wrong in the way critics usually mean - I wasn't imagining it was some nonstop chaos machine. I was wrong in a much more mundane way. I thought it looked cooler, more curated, and more cinematic than it actually is. And when I finally joined as a sophomore, I had to spend the first few months recalibrating. ... Read more

When police execute a search warrant on a fraternity house, it stops being a chapter problem. It becomes everyone's problem. The NC State situation - where law enforcement searched a fraternity tied to an active hazing investigation - is exactly the kind of moment that exposes how thin the line is between a chapter staying standing and a chapter losing everything. And from where I sit, having watched Panhellenic and IFC governance up close for years, the student reaction of feeling "disheartened" is understandable. But disheartened doesn't cut it as a response. ... Read more

Every chapter has a Founders Day on the calendar. Most of them treat it like a mandatory dinner where someone reads from a laminated card and everyone claps at the right moments. I watched that happen three years in a row before my chapter finally did it right, and the difference was not subtle. It was the kind of night where guys who barely talked to each other ended up having actual conversations about why they joined in the first place. That does not happen by accident, and it does not happen because you booked a nice venue. ... Read more

Washington State University students are protesting planned changes to Greek life on campus, and honestly, good for them. I don't know every detail of what WSU administration is proposing, but I know this pattern well enough to recognize it on sight. University officials decide Greek life needs to be reformed, they draft changes from the top down, and then they act surprised when the students who actually live inside these organizations show up and say something. The protest at WSU is worth paying attention to - not just as a local campus story, but as a signal of something that keeps repeating across the country. ... Read more

Washington State University just announced it's banning first-semester students from joining fraternities or sororities. No rush. No pledging. No Greek life until your second semester at the earliest. The university is calling it a "new model" for Greek recruitment, framed around giving freshmen time to adjust to college before they dive into chapter life. It sounds reasonable on paper. It really does. But I think it's going to do more harm than good - and not for the reasons most people assume. ... Read more

Transfer students get handed a shorter timeline, a smaller social network, and a rulebook nobody bothered to explain to them. And somehow we're surprised when they feel shut out of Greek life entirely. I've sat in enough Panhellenic meetings to know that the system wasn't built with transfers in mind - it was built for freshmen who had four years to figure it out. That's a problem worth naming out loud. ... Read more

Another week, another fraternity suspension. This time it's Sigma Nu's Beta Tau chapter at NC State facing hazing allegations and a suspension from the university. If you've been paying any attention to Greek life news over the past few years, your first reaction is probably a tired sigh rather than genuine shock. Mine was. ... Read more

Something has shifted in how fraternities present themselves on campus, and I don't mean the Instagram aesthetic. Over the past few years - especially post-2020 - there's been a visible push from chapters across the country to reframe what brotherhood actually means. Philanthropy is louder. Mental health language shows up in recruitment pitches. DEI commitments get framed front and center. And honestly? Some of it is real. Some of it is a rebrand with nothing behind it. Knowing the difference matters more than most people admit. ... Read more

When the university police show up with search warrants - plural - at two fraternities on the same day, something has gone seriously wrong. West Virginia University is dealing with exactly that right now. According to The Daily Athenaeum, UPD served search warrants at two WVU fraternities following hazing allegations. Not a courtesy visit. Not a "hey, can we talk" email from Greek Affairs. Actual search warrants. That is a level of escalation that most chapters never see, and it should make every active member in the country stop scrolling for a second. ... Read more

There's a specific kind of nervous energy that shows up in a chapter house about two weeks before formal. You can feel it. Sisters are comparing venue options, arguing about bus logistics, texting dates they've been low-key planning to ask for months. The group chat is a disaster. And somewhere in the middle of all that chaos is something genuinely worth paying attention to - because formal season, done right, is one of the few traditions in Greek life that actually holds weight beyond the night itself. ... Read more

Michigan State's Fraternity and Sorority Life put together a Safe Halloween program this year, and I want to talk about what that actually means from an organizational standpoint - because most people either roll their eyes at initiatives like this or treat them like a PR stunt. Neither reaction is right. ... Read more