Fairleigh Dickinson University just published a piece called "Beyond the [Greek] Letters" and honestly, it hit closer to home than I expected. The article takes a look at what Greek life actually means to the students living it - not the headlines, not the national news cycles, just the day-to-day reality of belonging to a chapter. And reading it as someone who graduated in 2024 after four years deep in fraternity life, I kept nodding along like yeah, that's the part nobody films for TikTok. ... Read more

Few will beg to differ when we say Halloween weekend is one of the most fun times of the year. When the costumes come out -- from the clever Adult Swim characters to the barely there get-up's -- it seems alter ego’s do as well, with typically chill houses throwing down with the wildest parties and the most introverted among us finally coming out of their shells.... Read more

October 2016’s philanthropy event of the month was chosen not because of how many participants it attracted or because how much money it raised, but because it was a first-time event for two organizations looking to make moves. For the first time in either of the chapters’ histories, two Virginia Tech fraternities joined forces to raise money for philanthropies... Read more

Since 1877 18 presidents were members of fraternities. That is nearly 70% of the presidents of the last almost 140 years. It does seem, although, that times are changing. There are only two 2016 presidential candidates that were involved in Greeklife during their college years. Thankfully, although, these two seemed to have made their fraternity days memorable. Can you guess which two?... Read more

Think your university has strong Greek roots that go way back? The first collegiate social Greek organizations in North America were established in the first half of the 19th century. A few schools proudly proclaim they are the “Mother of Greek Life” or the “Mother of Fraternities”.  We have assembled a list of universities that can boast the greatest number of fraternities and sororities established on their campuses.... 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

My buddy transferred from a 40,000-student state school to a small liberal arts college with like 2,800 students total. He called me two weeks into fall semester at the new place, genuinely confused. His fraternity chapter had 22 guys. They knew every single member of every single sorority on campus by name. The philanthropy event they threw got covered in the school paper like it was actual news. He didn't know what to do with any of that. At his old school, he'd been one of 180 brothers and couldn't have told you the names of the Pi Beta Phi officers if his GPA depended on it. Same Greek letters, completely different universe. ... Read more

When a university starts cutting DEI programs, the first thing administrators will tell you is that the core mission stays intact. The second thing they'll do is eliminate the exact infrastructure that makes that mission possible for students who were never the default to begin with. At UNC Chapel Hill, members of cultural interest Greek organizations are now dealing with exactly that - and they're speaking up about it. ... Read more

Every year, thousands of students walk into recruitment week thinking they've done their research. They watched the videos, scrolled the Instagram accounts, maybe even stalked the chapter rankings. And then day one hits and it is nothing - absolutely nothing - like what they expected. I've sat on Panhellenic council. I've watched the process from both sides of the door. The gap between what recruitment looks like online and what it actually feels like in person is embarrassing, and somebody needs to say it plainly. ... Read more

The Clarion-Ledger ran a photo spread this week from Ole Miss sorority bid day 2026, and if you scrolled through it without feeling something, I don't know what to tell you. There's something about bid day photos from a school like Ole Miss - where Greek life isn't just a thing, it's basically the culture - that cuts right through all the noise we usually hear about whether Greek life is worth it anymore. ... Read more

Virginia Commonwealth University just suspended a fraternity over hazing and assault allegations, and if you've spent any time around Greek life, you already know the basic shape of this story. Another chapter, another investigation, another university forced to act publicly on something that was probably an open secret for a while. It's not surprising. That's kind of the problem. ... Read more

There's a type of alumni event guest who shows up before the actives do, knows where the good snacks are hidden, and somehow ends up in every group photo. She graduated four years ago. Maybe six. And she is always there. Not in a mentorship way. Not in a "I'm chaperoning this for liability reasons" way. Just... there. Camped out like she never left. ... Read more

When I was in school, the worst internal conflict my chapter ever had was a heated argument over whether to get a foosball table or fix the back porch railing. We voted on it. Someone's feelings got hurt. We moved on. Nobody called a lawyer. Alpha Phi Delta apparently did not have that luxury, because the fraternity just filed a lawsuit against Greek housing organizations - and that's a sentence I did not expect to read on a Tuesday. ... Read more

Junior year, I had a thermodynamics exam on a Tuesday and hadn't slept more than four hours in three days. I was ready to just grind it out alone in the library like I always did freshman year - before I joined. Then my brother Marcus, a mechanical engineering senior, sat down next to me at the chapter house kitchen table at 10 PM and said, "You're doing the energy balance wrong." Two hours later I actually understood it. Passed that exam. And I remember thinking - this is literally what the whole thing is supposed to be for.< ... Read more