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

There's this whole invisible architecture to Greek social life that nobody explains during recruitment. You find out about it gradually - through casual comments, through noticing patterns, through eventually asking someone older in your chapter why you keep seeing the same fraternities at every sorority philanthropy event. The answer is almost never random. Greek social calendars are political in a way that took me a while to fully appreciate, and I say that as someone who didn't join until sophomore year and had zero context for any of it. ... Read more

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. just announced a formal partnership with The Jed Foundation to strengthen mental health support for its members and surrounding communities. And honestly, I've been waiting for a story like this - not because it's surprising that a fraternity is talking about mental health, but because of how they're doing it. This isn't a chapter posting a crisis hotline number on Instagram and calling it a day. This is a national organization locking in with one of the most credible mental health nonprofits in the country. That distinction matters more than most people realize. ... Read more

Every school thinks their Greek Week is the best. And honestly, most of them are wrong - but in the most entertaining way possible. I spent four years watching our council try to one-up itself every spring, and by senior year I had enough context to know that some schools are genuinely doing something special while others are just running a slightly competitive field day with matching t-shirts. There's a difference. A big one. ... Read more

When I first heard that Greek life at the University of Minnesota is expanding onto 17th Avenue, my immediate reaction was something between "interesting" and "okay, but at what cost." Because housing is never just housing when it comes to Greek organizations. Where chapters live shapes everything - recruitment, culture, alumni relationships, and how the rest of campus perceives you. ... Read more

Transfer students get handed a weird set of rules the moment they step on campus. They're expected to settle in fast, make friends fast, figure out a new school fast - and then, somewhere in that chaos, they're also supposed to figure out Greek recruitment on a timeline that was never designed with them in mind. I've sat in enough Panhellenic meetings to know that the system doesn't exactly roll out the welcome mat. And most councils aren't even embarrassed about it. ... Read more

A Wall Street Journal piece dropped recently about the rise of sorority rush consultants, and I've been thinking about it ever since. Not because it's shocking - honestly, it's not - but because it captures something that's been quietly shifting in Greek life for a while now, and I'm not sure we're talking about it honestly enough. ... Read more

There's a pattern most people don't talk about honestly. A fraternity gets suspended - national headlines, campus outrage, a stern statement from the university - and then six months later everyone kind of forgets about it. Then it happens again. Different chapter, same script. And if you've spent any real time in Greek life, you already know which houses on your campus are perpetually one incident away from losing their charter. ... Read more

When a fraternity chapter reaches an agreement with its university to resolve hazing allegations, there are usually two ways people react. Half the campus shrugs and says the chapter got off easy. The other half inside Greek life breathes a sigh of relief and hopes everyone moves on quickly. Neither reaction is really doing the work of understanding what actually happened or what it means going forward. ... Read more

There's a Her Campus piece floating around right now about a woman who didn't join a sorority, spent some time with serious FOMO about it, and then eventually found her people and got over it. And look, I read the whole thing. As a guy who spent four years in a fraternity and watched plenty of friends go through the exact same spiral from the other side of it, I have some thoughts. ... Read more

Formal season sneaks up on you. One week you're grinding through midterms, and the next you're in a group chat trying to figure out hotel blocks, dress codes, and whether the venue has a good enough playlist. But here's the thing - formal isn't really about any of that. The logistics are just the packaging. What's inside is something most people in Greek life don't fully appreciate until it's almost over. ... Read more

UNM's Greek community just raised $57,000 for Storehouse New Mexico during Greek Week. That's a record. And honestly, that number deserves more attention than it's probably getting outside of Albuquerque, because it doesn't happen by accident - and most people who weren't in the room don't understand why. ... Read more

Living in a chapter house sounds like a dream until you're six weeks in and you want to strangle the guy whose alarm goes off at 6 a.m. and who never actually wakes up. Roommate problems exist everywhere in college - dorms, apartments, co-ops - but something about sharing a house with 30 to 80 of your brothers or sisters makes the friction feel more personal. Because it is. ... Read more

Recruitment chairs are great at a lot of things. Remembering your name after meeting 200 guys in two days, cracking jokes that land at 10 a.m., making a house with peeling paint feel like the obvious choice. But breaking down the actual financial commitment? That part somehow always gets left out of the conversation. You find out the real number around week three of pledging, right after you've already told your parents you joined. ... Read more

Penn State just announced a new fall Greek life recruitment timeline option, and honestly, I've been thinking about it more than I expected to. Timeline changes sound like administrative housekeeping - the kind of thing that gets a paragraph in the student paper and then disappears. But this one actually touches something real about how recruitment works and who it ends up serving. ... Read more