Next to Instagram, Tumblr is fabulous. You can get lost, scrolling for hours over beach landscapes, long-haired girl crushes, and tailgate style. If you’re a sorority, you know this, and you’ll have curated your Tumblr page to follow suit. ... 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

Three fraternities at the University of Arizona are now facing serious hazing allegations, according to reporting from KOLD News. I don't have every detail of what allegedly happened - the story is still developing and the specifics matter. But here's what I do know: the moment I read that headline, my first reaction wasn't shock. It was something closer to tired recognition. And I think that says more about the state of Greek life than any single incident does. ... Read more

Every fall, thousands of students sprint through recruitment trying to impress as many chapters as possible. They wear the outfits, memorize the talking points, smile through six-hour rotation days. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, they forget the only question that actually matters: does this place feel right for you? ... Read more

So Alma College just put out a story about how their fraternities and sororities are outperforming the general student population academically. And I know exactly what most people's first reaction is. Eye roll. Skepticism. Some version of "yeah right, those guys study." I get it. I lived it. But here's the thing - the data is real, and it's worth actually talking about instead of dismissing it like we always do. ... Read more

Nobody sat me down junior year and said, "Here's how Greek life will actually help your career." It just kind of happened, quietly, over time, in ways I didn't recognize until I was already out the other side. I joined Alpha Chi Omega for the sisterhood - full stop. But the professional network I stumbled into? That came from the fraternity guys across the hall at every study hall, every philanthropy event, every awkward co-ed service project. And I genuinely didn't see it coming. ... Read more

I've watched guys I considered some of the sharpest people in my pledge class fall behind academically by junior year. Not because they weren't capable. Because they let the chapter swallow their schedule whole. And I've also watched guys in the same house - same parties, same philanthropy weekends, same 6 a.m. brotherhood retreats - graduate in four years with solid GPAs and actual job offers lined up. The difference wasn't intelligence. It wasn't even discipline in the way people usually mean it. It was something more specific than that, and I didn't fully understand it until I was about six months out from graduation myself. ... Read more

Emory University has been working through what to do with its Greek life presence on campus, and a piece in The Emory Wheel makes an argument I think more people need to hear: physically relocating Greek organizations away from campus doesn't make them safer. It just makes them harder to watch. If you've spent any time in a chapter house, you probably already know why that's a problem. ... Read more

Before I joined a fraternity, I went to exactly two Greek events as a GDI. One mixer where I knew nobody and stood near the snack table the whole time, and one philanthropy event where I felt like I was watching a performance I hadn't been given a script for. I remember thinking everyone seemed to know something I didn't. Turns out, they did. ... Read more

Carthage College just opened registration for spring sorority recruitment, and I'll be honest - when I first saw this, my gut reaction was something like finally. Not because spring recruitment is some revolutionary concept, but because what it represents at a small school like Carthage is genuinely different from the fall rush circus most people picture when they think about Greek recruitment. And that difference deserves more attention than it's getting. ... Read more

I remember standing in a dark room with about fifteen other guys, wearing something ridiculous, having no idea what was about to happen next. And honestly? I thought it was gonna be mostly theater. A ritual somebody made up decades ago, preserved out of stubbornness, repeated because nobody questioned it. I figured I'd get through it, shake some hands, and that would be that. I was wrong in a way I still think about. ... Read more

Another fraternity suspension, another news cycle. That's how it usually goes, right? The story breaks, people get outraged, a statement gets issued, and then it fades. But when I saw that an NYU fraternity got suspended over allegations of sexual assault and hazing, I didn't just scroll past it - I actually stopped. Because I've been on both sides of the Greek life fence, and stories like this one are exactly why I almost didn't join in the first place. ... Read more

Every recruitment cycle, Panhellenic councils across the country put out some version of the same talking points - find your people, look for shared values, don't just pick the house with the best house tour. And every cycle, a significant chunk of PNMs ignore all of it and chase status. Then half of them end up miserable by spring semester. I've watched this happen enough times that I've stopped being surprised. But I've also watched values-based recruitment done right, and the difference is not subtle. ... Read more

Every spring, fraternity chapters across the country go through the same ritual: a room full of guys vote on who gets to run things for the next year. From the outside, it looks like a straightforward democratic process. From the inside, it is often a months-long political campaign that would make a local city council race look tame. ... Read more

Dartmouth's president went on record about Greek life, and honestly, I wasn't expecting to care this much. Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock sat down with The Dartmouth recently and weighed in on a bunch of hot-button topics - Greek life included. And when a sitting college president decides Greek life is worth addressing directly instead of just shipping a policy memo nobody reads, that's worth paying attention to. ... Read more