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, some version of the same press release goes out from Greek councils across the country: "Fraternity and sorority members maintain a higher GPA than the general student body." And every fall, someone in the comments calls it propaganda. I was that guy sophomore year, before I joined. Then I joined, graduated with a 3.4, and watched my pledge class finish stronger academically than basically anyone expected - including us. So I've been on both sides of this argument, and I have some thoughts. ... Read more

There's a piece running in The State Press right now asking whether sorority recruitment has turned into a search for fame rather than a search for sisterhood. And honestly, I've been thinking about that question all week - not from the Panhellenic side, but from where I sit as someone who went through IFC recruitment and watched dozens of women go through theirs at the same time. The question itself tells you something about where Greek life is right now. ... Read more

Rush week has a reputation for being chaotic, and yeah, some of that chaos is unavoidable. But there's a specific kind of chaos that isn't random - it's a signal. And most PNMs walking through those doors have no idea what they're actually watching. I spent two years on Panhellenic council processing recruitment violations, mediating chapter complaints, and sitting in rooms where decisions got made that directly affected which women got bids. So I'm gonna tell you what the glossy rush guides leave out. ... Read more

Four pledges at Texas State University were arrested on hazing charges after allegedly forcing another student into a truck as part of what police described as a fraternity tradition. Not a rumor. Not a vague allegation that might get walked back. Actual arrests, actual charges, actual consequences - for something that somebody in that chapter looked at and called a tradition. ... Read more

Nobody warned me that graduation would feel like getting quietly escorted out of a building I'd lived in for four years. One day you're in chapter meetings, stressing about philanthropy totals and bid day logistics. The next, you're updating your LinkedIn and realizing your sorority is now just a line on your resume. The shift doesn't happen all at once. It creeps up on you, and then one morning you're a full year out and you're seeing recruitment content on your phone and thinking, wow, I used to care so much about that. ... Read more

Junior year, I had a 9 AM organic chemistry lab, chapter exec meeting every Sunday at 8 PM, a philanthropy event to coordinate, and three brothers texting me about something related to recruitment. My GPA that semester was the best it had been since I started college. Not despite all of that - because of how I handled it. Most guys in Greek life think the chapter is what's fighting against their academics. They've got it backwards. ... Read more

Radford University just updated its Greek life policies following sexual assault allegations tied to the Greek community on campus. And honestly, my first reaction wasn't surprise. It was something closer to exhaustion - the kind you feel when you've watched this same cycle play out enough times that you can almost predict the press release before it gets written. ... Read more

When a sorority member at the University of Arizona comes forward with a sexual assault allegation tied to a fraternity house, the first thing I think about isn't the legal process. It's the chain of decisions that put her in that situation - and who in Greek governance was supposed to prevent it. ... Read more

Before I joined a fraternity, I used to think the social calendar stuff was just random. Like, chapters threw events, people showed up, and that was that. Nobody was strategizing anything. Then I actually got inside one and realized the pairing system - which sorority your chapter invites to a mixer, which fraternity a sorority reaches out to for a philanthropy event - is probably one of the more calculated things happening on any given campus. It's not random at all. It's basically politics with a dress code. ... Read more

There's an opinion piece making the rounds from the New York Times arguing that one of the most effective ways to reduce sexual assault in fraternity spaces is to give sororities more control over where social events happen. The argument isn't complicated: when women have ownership over the social environment - hosting at their own spaces, setting their own terms - the power dynamic shifts. And honestly? That's not a radical idea. That's just common sense that Greek life has been slow to act on. ... Read more

Every semester, someone in your chapter's social committee gets a little too confident and pitches a mixer theme that sounds incredible in the GroupMe and becomes a logistical nightmare by 9pm. I've been on both sides of this. I've been the guy who suggested a theme that had the whole room hyped, and I've been the guy standing there at a mixer thinking, who approved this? Four years of mixers gives you a certain perspective. Some themes are genuinely good - they're fun, easy to execute, bring both chapters together, and people actually remember them for the right reasons. Others are cursed from the moment someone says "what if we did..." and should have been shut down immediately. ... Read more

Every fall, thousands of PNMs walk into recruitment having already decided which chapter they want based on a 30-second TikTok. They've watched the aesthetic videos, they've seen the coordinated outfits, they've studied the comment sections like they're prepping for an exam. And by the time they show up for the first round of parties, they have a fully formed opinion about chapters they've never actually set foot in. That's a problem - and it's one Panhellenic governance is not even close to equipped to handle. ... Read more

When a sorority scandal breaks at a school like UC Santa Barbara, the first instinct for a lot of people is to treat it like a isolated incident. One chapter, one mess, one news cycle. But I've been watching Greek life long enough to know that's almost never the whole story. The Alpha Phi situation at UCSB deserves a harder look than it's getting. ... Read more

Thirty pledges. A filthy basement. Injuries. Condiments. That's what law enforcement found when they responded to a Wisconsin fraternity this past week, and it's the kind of story that makes even the most committed Greek life defender go quiet for a second. I'm not a committed Greek life defender - I joined a fraternity sophomore year after spending my first year firmly in the GDI camp - so I'm not going to sit here and spin this into something it isn't. What happened at that house was hazing. Full stop. And the fact that frat leaders were actually arrested over it means this one isn't going away quietly. ... Read more