Ah, that time of year -- sorority recruitment -- where we find ourselves spending too much time in the guilty pleasure that is watching sorority recruitment videos. Usually a well-edited mix of time lapses set against pop techno, girls on speedboats, the latest trends in bikinis, and of course, convertibles cruising coastlines and/or desert backroads. Here are this semester’s best sorority recruitment videos.... Read more

Sadly, when a lot of people think of a sorority they often look past the images of sisterhood and philantrophy. They go straight to imagining a bunch of good looking girls. Sorority girls know that being in a sorority is so much more than just being nice to look at. These are motivated women who pride themselves on their education and philantropic efforts. Let's take a look at 7 sororities across this great nation that are so much more than just looks.... Read more

As winter break is coming to an end, spring recruitment season is quickly approaching. This may be apparent due to the excessive sorority related information that is currently overflowing your Facebook newsfeed. It may be statuses encouraging potential new members to come out to interest sessions or photos sharing information for an upcoming philanthropy event. Just about every sorority girl has a cover photo to promote her sorority... Read more

With the fall semester coming to an end, the stress of finals is getting to every college student. The libraries are overflowing and the coffee just isn’t helping you stay awake anymore. The only good part about the end of a semester? Semiformal. A time to get dressed up, grab a date and take your mind off of school for a night. Take a look at the best-dressed sororities and fraternities that have already enjoyed their semiformal this semester.... Read more

What better way to brag about your strong sisterhood and eventful nights out than an entire page dedicated to what your sorority chapter is all about? Imagine hundreds of unique and creative photos tagged with a catchy tune to make you wish you could become a part of an incredible organization. Sororities have taken it upon themselves to use Tumblr to its full potential and get their names and chapters out there... 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

Cornell University says it's going to take a "serious look" at its fraternities following rape allegations that have put the school under a national microscope. And look, I've heard that phrase from university administrators more times than I can count. "Serious look." It's the institutional version of "we'll talk about this later" - which, as anyone who grew up in a household with parents who said that knows, usually means nothing happens until something way worse occurs. ... Read more

The Wall Street Journal ran a piece this week that a lot of people in Greek life governance have been quietly dreading. A rape case at Cornell. A university that had recently softened its stance toward fraternities. And a story that asks, out loud, whether colleges made a mistake by pulling back from the harder line on Greek organizations. If you've sat on a Panhellenic council or watched an IFC try to self-govern, you already know where this is headed. ... Read more