Everyone's got a theory about what happens when the doors close at a sorority chapter meeting. Most of those theories are wrong. Not in a dramatic way - just in the way that outsiders always fill in blanks with whatever makes the best story. Having spent years around Greek life from the IFC side, watching how chapters actually function when they think nobody's paying attention, I can tell you the real version is both more mundane and more meaningful than anything people assume.
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I've spent more time in sorority houses than most IFC guys would admit. Between philanthropy events, study sessions that spilled over into someone's chapter room, and the times my little dragged me to something at her girlfriend's house in Delta Delta Delta, I've seen enough to have a real opinion. And what I've seen is genuinely interesting - not what you'd expect from the outside.
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Becoming part of a sorority is a typical aspect of college life for so many students. It’s also common knowledge that sorority life can get pretty extravagant – living in grand mansions, enjoying fine food, and going all Greek with your best sorority friends. Indeed, sorority life is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that every college girl should have. If you are looking for a sorority house this year and aren’t sure which one will be best for you, this is the perfect guide for you. ...
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Glistening chandeliers, all-brick exteriors, and mile-wide porches. Some of the most beautiful sorority houses in America are fit for royalty -- and we can't stop staring. Here are the top sorority houses in America this semester. ...
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As fall semester comes to a close, we look back at some of 2017’s best sorority recruitment videos. There was no shortage of primo slow-motion scenes, EDM and drone footage, but we’ve whittled down the list to these top 11 sorority recruitment videos that offer something more than the stereotype....
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On every campus across the country there are a couple sororities that win their bid day. Of course, this is a matter of opinion, but we have pretty strong photo evidence that these 10 sororities set the bar for bid day excellence. There’s no one way to win a bid day, but you know winning when you see it. Allow us to explain just how these 10 sororities won their bid days....
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Every PNM is looking for a strong sisterhood, good reputation, and of course…a beautiful sorority house to call home for the rest of their college career. Every semester we list the top sorority houses in the US. Click here to check out The 10 Best Sorority Houses In America - Spring 2017. Here are the rankings for Fall 2017. ...
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Is your house chef still sticking to the same rotation of like 10 different meals that mostly remind you of grade school cafeteria food? Seriously, this article is just going to make you jealous. Some sorority chefs are offering their girls 5-star restaurant treatment. Let’s take a look at 7 of the nation’s top sorority house chefs who just might make the girls of their house long for their food over the food they grew up with at home....
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The weather is still pretty chilly across most of the US. Good thing sorority girls across the country have their “homes away from homes” to offer them shelter from the cold. Some of these homes are classics and some are brand new. In the fall we ranked the 10 Best Sorority Houses in America of Fall 2016. Now it’s time for our Spring 2017 rankings of the best sorority houses in America....
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There at 26 Panhellenic sorority members. Each of them have an official unique color or color combination. After asking myself “which sorority has the best colors”, I realized that these preferences would be very subjective. No surprise there. Yet, what I was able to do is list the first thing that comes to mind when I look at a sororities colors....
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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