My chapter had a GPA floor. Not a suggestion, not a gentle nudge from our academic chairman - an actual hard floor. You fell below it, you went on academic probation with the chapter. You stayed below it, you faced suspension. And I remember thinking, as a pledge, that this felt strict. Almost unfair. But three years later, standing at my graduation with brothers I'd pulled all-nighters with, studied with, pushed through midterms with - I got it. That standard wasn't punishing us. It was shaping us. ... Read more

Before I joined a fraternity, I spent about a year and a half watching Greek life from the outside. And what I saw mostly came through a screen - polished recruitment videos, perfectly staged bid day photos, Formal content that looked like it was shot by a professional. I had a genuine opinion about Greek life based almost entirely on curated content. That's probably more common than anyone wants to admit. ... Read more

Something shifted on campuses around 2020 and it never fully shifted back. The fraternities that figured that out early are in a completely different position right now than the ones still running the same playbook from 2015. I've watched this from close enough range - four years in a sorority, a lot of time around chapters of Sigma Chi, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and others - and I have thoughts. Not all of them are flattering. ... Read more

A piece ran in The Villanovan recently arguing that sorority recruitment isn't meant to be stressful. And I get the intent behind that. I really do. The author wants PNMs to breathe, to show up as themselves, to stop treating recruitment like a job interview where one wrong answer tanks your whole future. That's a reasonable message. But there's something a little too tidy about it that I can't stop thinking about. ... Read more

I graduated in May 2023 with a degree in communications and approximately zero idea what I was doing next. What I did have, without fully realizing it at the time, was a network of about forty fraternity guys spread across industries, cities, and career stages who were genuinely willing to help me. Not because I'd done anything strategic. Not because I'd attended a single "networking event." Just because we'd been in the same orbit for three years and something stuck. ... Read more

When hazing stories break, Greek life members tend to do one of two things: get defensive or go completely silent. Neither is a good look. The Daily Iowan's recent opinion piece on what they're calling the "Frat Files" fiasco is the kind of story that deserves an actual response from people inside Greek life - not a PR statement, not deflection, and definitely not the usual "this doesn't represent us" shrug. ... Read more

Nobody told me pledge semester would hit my transcript like a freight train. Between chapter meetings three nights a week, new member education, philanthropy events, and just trying to figure out who everyone was - I watched my GPA slip in a way I hadn't expected. And I wasn't some slacker. I'd gotten good grades in high school. Greek life just has a way of filling every hour you thought you had. ... Read more

Nobody warns you about Greek Sing when you're rushing. You show up thinking it's gonna be some cringe talent show in a gymnasium, and then you watch a chapter of 80 guys absolutely nail a full choreographed number to a medley they clearly rehearsed for six weeks straight. And you just sit there thinking - wait, this is kind of incredible? Greek Sing is one of those traditions that sounds embarrassing on paper and then completely wins you over in person. ... Read more

Transfer students get a weird kind of welcome at most schools. Everyone says they're excited to have you, admissions puts out a nice brochure, and then you show up and realize that half the social infrastructure you were counting on has a side door that nobody told you about. Greek life is one of the worst offenders. And I say that as someone who spent two years helping run Panhellenic at a mid-size state school where we absolutely, genuinely made this harder than it needed to be. ... Read more

...that even the non-Greek world knows of these fraternities and sororities. They’ve made headlines for one reason or another. They were notorious, or the most rushed. They robbed banks, or raised the most for their philanthropy.... 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 chapter had a GPA floor. Not a suggestion, not a gentle nudge from our academic chairman - an actual hard floor. You fell below it, you went on academic probation with the chapter. You stayed below it, you faced suspension. And I remember thinking, as a pledge, that this felt strict. Almost unfair. But three years later, standing at my graduation with brothers I'd pulled all-nighters with, studied with, pushed through midterms with - I got it. That standard wasn't punishing us. It was shaping us. ... Read more

So Stanford just lost a chunk of its sorority community, and honestly, the story is a little more complicated than the headline makes it sound. According to The Stanford Daily, several sorority chapters have departed from campus - some disaffiliating from their nationals, some shutting down entirely. And before you write it off as a Stanford-specific quirk, I'd slow down on that. Because what's happening there is a symptom of something a lot of Greek life communities are quietly dealing with right now. ... Read more

Before I joined a fraternity, I spent about a year and a half watching Greek life from the outside. And what I saw mostly came through a screen - polished recruitment videos, perfectly staged bid day photos, Formal content that looked like it was shot by a professional. I had a genuine opinion about Greek life based almost entirely on curated content. That's probably more common than anyone wants to admit. ... Read more

A student newspaper having to file a lawsuit just to get public records about Greek life at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo - that's not a transparency problem. That's an accountability crisis. And if you've ever sat in a Panhellenic council meeting watching people argue for forty minutes about whether to release chapter GPA data to the broader campus community, you already know exactly how we got here. ... Read more