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

If you've spent any time on Greek life TikTok or scrolled through the recruitment content on Instagram, you've seen the aesthetic. Matching linen sets. Choreographed bid day videos. Chapters that look like they were styled by a production crew. And it all looks incredible. The problem is that none of it has anything to do with what Greek life actually is, and I think it's starting to cause real damage to chapters that are trying to do this the right way. ... Read more

Another week, another hazing accusation at a major university. This time it's the University of Arizona in the spotlight, with yet another fraternity facing allegations of hazing - the word "yet another" doing a lot of heavy lifting in that KOLD news headline. And I don't think that phrasing was an accident. When a local news station is so used to covering these stories that they lead with "yet another," that tells you something real about where things stand. ... Read more

When guys start looking into Greek life, they usually stumble into the same confusion. There's the fraternities on the main row, the ones with the big houses and the formal recruitment, and then there's everything else. The "everything else" is where it gets interesting - and where most people have no idea what they're actually looking at. ... Read more

There's a version of sorority life that gets shown to the world - the matching recruitment outfits, the philanthropy totals, the GPA announcements. And then there's the version that lives inside chapter walls, the one that Stanford women are apparently starting to talk about out loud. A recent piece in The Stanford Daily pulled back the curtain on what sorority membership actually looks like at one of the most selective universities in the country, and honestly, it's not that surprising - but it still needs to be said. ... Read more

Here's the thing about Greek life that nobody puts in the brochure: you are going to get pulled into drama that has absolutely nothing to do with you. Doesn't matter if you're IFC, doesn't matter if you've got your own chapter business to worry about. The moment you start dating someone in a sorority, or your little sister pledges one, or your roommate is going through a chapter crisis - you're in it. Welcome. ... Read more

I almost didn't rush. My first semester freshman year, I was convinced Greek life was for people who needed a social structure handed to them. I had my friend group, I was figuring out college on my own terms, and honestly the whole thing looked exhausting. But I also bombed two midterms that semester and finished with a 2.6 GPA - and I had no idea yet how much that number was going to matter. ... Read more

Elon University just handed out its Dr. Leo M. Lambert Awards, recognizing students for leadership, service, and campus impact. Good. That's the kind of thing universities should be doing. But sitting here having spent two years on Panhellenic council, watching chapters get recognition for the wrong reasons and get overlooked for the right ones, I can't just applaud and move on. These awards matter - and the way we structure recognition in Greek life tells you a lot about what we actually value versus what we say we value. ... Read more

Rho Epsilon Pi just re-affiliated with Greek life at Wesleyan University, making it the only sorority on campus. And my first reaction, honestly, wasn't congratulations. It was something closer to oh, that's a heavy lift. Not because the organization isn't capable - but because being the singular option for women seeking Greek membership at your school puts you in a position that no recruitment brochure ever prepares you for. ... Read more

When I got my first dues invoice as a pledge, I stared at it for probably three full minutes. It was more than I paid for a semester of textbooks. And unlike textbooks, I couldn't sell it back at the end of the year for eleven dollars. My mom asked what exactly I was paying for. I told her brotherhood. She did not find that satisfying. ... Read more

There's a moment every recruitment chair dreads - the one where you watch a PNM and an active member stare at each other like they're both reading from the same invisible script. "Where are you from? What's your major? Oh, you like hiking too?" It's not a conversation. It's a checklist. And after three years on Panhellenic council reviewing recruitment violations, chapter standings, and values-based recruitment compliance reports, I can tell you that this problem is almost entirely self-inflicted. ... Read more

Kylan Darnell became one of the most recognizable faces in Greek life without most people knowing her name until TikTok made it impossible to ignore. Now she's graduated from Alabama, and People sat down with her to reflect on what that actually means. And honestly, reading through that piece made me think about something beyond the content itself - it made me think about what Greek life looks like when it's being watched by millions of people who have never stepped inside a chapter house. ... Read more

I went back to campus last fall for homecoming expecting to feel nostalgic and warm and maybe a little proud. And I did feel those things. But I also felt something nobody warned me about - this low-grade weirdness that followed me around the whole weekend like a shadow I couldn't shake. Nobody tells you that going back as an alum is its own thing entirely, separate from every homecoming you experienced as an active member. It's not better or worse. It's just genuinely strange in ways I wasn't prepared for. ... Read more

Another fraternity. Another hazing investigation. Another multi-year suspension handed down at Penn State. If you've been paying any attention to Greek life news over the past few years, this one probably registered as background noise before you even finished the headline. ... Read more

Town and Country Magazine ran a piece recently on how to survive sorority recruitment. And look, I read it. I am a fraternity guy who graduated in 2024 and spent four years watching Panhellenic recruitment happen from a respectful distance, which mostly meant standing on the sidewalk in August wondering why hundreds of women were dressed identically and walking in extremely organized lines. So I feel like I have some observational standing here. The article means well. It genuinely does. But the framing of recruitment as something you survive tells you almost everything you need to know about what is broken with how we talk about this process. ... Read more