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 column making the rounds from The Huntington News - a student asking why their friends are acting different after sorority recruitment. And honestly, I get why that question is being asked. From the outside, joining a Greek organization can look like a personality transplant. New friends, new schedule, new inside jokes you're not part of. It's disorienting if you're the one left watching it happen. ... Read more

Every year, thousands of students show up to recruitment events with a mental picture built from short-form video content and older siblings' highlight reels. Matching outfits, coordinated dances, tearful bid day hugs. And then they walk into an actual recruitment round and spend forty-five minutes making small talk with strangers in a loud room while someone checks their name off a clipboard. That gap between expectation and reality is where most of the genuine stress of rush lives - and nobody in an official capacity wants to talk about it honestly. ... Read more

Saint Louis University just suspended Alpha Eta Rho fraternity over what the school is calling a 'physical hazing incident.' No additional details have been made public yet - no timeline, no description of what actually happened, no word on how long the suspension will last. Just the announcement and the label. And honestly, that combination of vagueness and severity is something I've watched play out on campuses enough times now that it barely surprises me anymore. That's a problem worth thinking about. ... Read more

Nobody talks about academic probation like it actually happens. You hear about it in whispers, or you see a chapter go quiet on social media for a semester, or someone mentions it offhand at a philanthropy event. But the truth is that almost every chapter - at some point - has been there. And the way a brotherhood handles it says more about who they are than any bid day photo ever could. ... Read more

A college in Pennsylvania just suspended all Greek activities after antisemitic and sexist comments surfaced within its chapters. That's the sentence. Read it again if you need to. Because somehow, in 2024, we're still here - a whole campus community paying the price because a handful of people in letters decided that kind of talk was acceptable behind closed doors. ... Read more

There's this whole invisible architecture to Greek social life that nobody explains during recruitment. You find out about it gradually - through casual comments, through noticing patterns, through eventually asking someone older in your chapter why you keep seeing the same fraternities at every sorority philanthropy event. The answer is almost never random. Greek social calendars are political in a way that took me a while to fully appreciate, and I say that as someone who didn't join until sophomore year and had zero context for any of it. ... Read more

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. just announced a formal partnership with The Jed Foundation to strengthen mental health support for its members and surrounding communities. And honestly, I've been waiting for a story like this - not because it's surprising that a fraternity is talking about mental health, but because of how they're doing it. This isn't a chapter posting a crisis hotline number on Instagram and calling it a day. This is a national organization locking in with one of the most credible mental health nonprofits in the country. That distinction matters more than most people realize. ... Read more

Every school thinks their Greek Week is the best. And honestly, most of them are wrong - but in the most entertaining way possible. I spent four years watching our council try to one-up itself every spring, and by senior year I had enough context to know that some schools are genuinely doing something special while others are just running a slightly competitive field day with matching t-shirts. There's a difference. A big one. ... Read more

When I first heard that Greek life at the University of Minnesota is expanding onto 17th Avenue, my immediate reaction was something between "interesting" and "okay, but at what cost." Because housing is never just housing when it comes to Greek organizations. Where chapters live shapes everything - recruitment, culture, alumni relationships, and how the rest of campus perceives you. ... Read more

Transfer students get handed a weird set of rules the moment they step on campus. They're expected to settle in fast, make friends fast, figure out a new school fast - and then, somewhere in that chaos, they're also supposed to figure out Greek recruitment on a timeline that was never designed with them in mind. I've sat in enough Panhellenic meetings to know that the system doesn't exactly roll out the welcome mat. And most councils aren't even embarrassed about it. ... Read more

A Wall Street Journal piece dropped recently about the rise of sorority rush consultants, and I've been thinking about it ever since. Not because it's shocking - honestly, it's not - but because it captures something that's been quietly shifting in Greek life for a while now, and I'm not sure we're talking about it honestly enough. ... 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

When a fraternity chapter reaches an agreement with its university to resolve hazing allegations, there are usually two ways people react. Half the campus shrugs and says the chapter got off easy. The other half inside Greek life breathes a sigh of relief and hopes everyone moves on quickly. Neither reaction is really doing the work of understanding what actually happened or what it means going forward. ... 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