There's a headline making the rounds from Student Life at Washington University in St. Louis, and it's framing fraternity expansion as some kind of red flag - a sign that the Abolish Greek Life movement is losing ground and that's somehow alarming. I've read it a few times now. And I get what the writers are going for. But I think they're reading the situation backwards. ... 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

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

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

Good Morning America ran a piece recently about how to survive sorority recruitment. Tips on what to wear, how to talk, how to present yourself. The kind of stuff that gets packaged as advice but really just teaches women to perform for a week and hope the right house picks them. I read it as an IFC guy who has watched rush from the other side of the fence, and honestly, something about the framing bothered me in a way I couldn't shake. ... Read more

Continuous open bidding gets sold as this flexible, low-pressure alternative to formal recruitment. Chapters that didn't hit their quota during fall rush, PNMs who missed the official process, everyone gets another shot. Sounds reasonable on paper. But after sitting through more Panhellenic council meetings than I can count, I can tell you that COB is one of the most mismanaged tools in the Greek governance playbook - and almost nobody talks about why. ... Read more

Ohio State just disbanded a fraternity over hazing and alcohol violations, and if your first reaction was a shrug, I get it. This kind of headline has a rhythm to it by now. School investigates chapter. Chapter gets suspended or shut down. University releases a statement about values and community standards. Everyone moves on until the next one. But I think there's something worth sitting with here before we scroll past it. ... Read more

I joined my sorority as a freshman who wanted friends and left four years later with a lot more than that - and also a lot more complicated feelings than I expected. The graduation cap comes off and suddenly you're supposed to have this tidy narrative about how Greek life shaped you. I don't have that. What I have is a perspective that shifted pretty dramatically once I wasn't living inside it anymore. ... Read more