West Virginia's Panhellenic recruitment just hit its highest participation numbers since 2014. Let that settle for a second - because that's not a small thing. That's a decade of declining or stagnant numbers finally reversing course, and it happened at a school where Greek life has faced the same headwinds every other campus has dealt with. This matters. A lot. ... Read more

When news breaks about a fraternity member dying, the first thing most people do is scroll past it, chalk it up to "Greek life being Greek life," and move on. I'm not doing that this time. A Michigan State University fraternity member died, and the Greek life community there is reacting - some with grief, some with calls for change, and some probably just hoping the news cycle moves fast. It deserves more than that. ... Read more

Every guy in a fraternity has heard some version of this pitch: join us, and you'll have brothers for life - brothers who will hire you, refer you, open doors for you. It sounds almost too good to be true. And honestly? Sometimes it is. But sometimes it genuinely isn't, and the difference matters a lot more than anyone in recruitment will admit. ... 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

With so many undergraduates joining fraternities and sororities, one thing is for sure: that’s a lot of bodies. And, a lot of potential to do good. Hence, most chapters across campuses have their mission rooted in some kind of philanthropic effort. Each year, chapters devote time and attention to planning a fundraiser to raise money for their philanthropy.... Read more

Think of college and what comes to mind? Studying? Homework? Chances are that your college memories will usually be of a party. I’m talking about Fraternity parties. They come in all shapes and sizes, all over the country, but the question always remains. Who throws the best party? Which school reigns supreme? Here’s a list of the top Fraternity parties of 2015 thus far. Check out if your school or fraternity made the list.... Read more

Fraternities are filled with some of the most ambitious and overachieving people in the world. While movies like Animal House tend to portray fraternity brothers as nothing but raging alcoholics, the reality is much different. We take a look at some of the richest and most successful fraternity men today... Read more

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

Most chapter events don't fall apart because of bad ideas. They fall apart because nobody figured out who was actually in charge. I learned this the hard way during my first semester as an active, when what should have been a straightforward mixer with a sorority turned into two weeks of group chat chaos, three people who thought they were in charge, and a venue that got double-booked. The event still happened. It was fine. But fine isn't what anyone was going for. ... Read more

Every few years, a wave of high-profile assault cases hits the news cycle and suddenly everyone's got an opinion about whether fraternities should exist at all. The ABC News story making rounds right now is the latest version of that conversation - calls to shut down frat houses entirely as public anger over rape cases grows louder. I've heard this argument before. I've sat in Panhellenic council meetings where the exact same pressure was bleeding over into how we handled our own policies, our own relationships with IFC chapters, our own event approval processes. And I'll say what I said then: closing houses doesn't close the problem. ... Read more

There's a specific kind of chaos that hits Greek row the week before homecoming. Float builds happening at midnight. Someone's little sister from three towns over showing up unannounced. A chapter president stress-eating dining hall waffles at 2am because the banner isn't drying fast enough. I lived that chaos for four years, and I'm not even a little bit sorry about it. Homecoming week is the thing I describe to people who ask me if Greek life was worth it - and it shuts them up every time. ... Read more

Every few years, something happens at Cornell and the whole country acts like Greek life just invented itself. The New York Times is back on the beat, the op-eds are flying, and university administrators everywhere are dusting off their "embrace or ban" talking points like it's a policy debate and not a conversation about actual students. I've seen this cycle. I lived through a version of it. And honestly, the framing is what frustrates me most. ... Read more

Every Panhellenic president I've ever met has had the same reaction to Greek rank sites: eye roll, dismissal, maybe a comment about how "those sites don't reflect our values." I used to say the same thing. Then I spent two years on council watching chapters with glowing reputations internally get absolutely torched in public forums - and I started paying closer attention to what was actually being said. ... Read more

The Inter-Sorority Council at the University of Virginia just proposed adding a new sorority to its membership, with the expansion targeting the 2027-28 recruitment cycle. That's two years out, which means this is serious planning - not a casual conversation. And if you follow Panhellenic dynamics at all, you know that adding a chapter to an established council is one of the most consequential things a Greek community can do. ... Read more

Indiana University is now investigating three more fraternities for hazing. Three more. That's not a blip - that's a pattern, and the school is gonna have a hard time framing this as isolated incidents when they keep stacking up like this. ... Read more