When the university police show up with search warrants - plural - at two fraternities on the same day, something has gone seriously wrong. West Virginia University is dealing with exactly that right now. According to The Daily Athenaeum, UPD served search warrants at two WVU fraternities following hazing allegations. Not a courtesy visit. Not a "hey, can we talk" email from Greek Affairs. Actual search warrants. That is a level of escalation that most chapters never see, and it should make every active member in the country stop scrolling for a second.
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West Virginia's Panhellenic recruitment just hit its highest participation numbers since 2014. Let that settle for a second - because that's not a small thing. That's a decade of declining or stagnant numbers finally reversing course, and it happened at a school where Greek life has faced the same headwinds every other campus has dealt with. This matters. A lot.
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We’re not covering party schools because we’re advising you to go to the below universities. We’re covering party schools because so many of you either think your school should make the list, or are wondering if it already has.
While you can find top party school lists across the internet -- with the Princeton Review being the authority on the topic -- we’ve consolidated student reviews across sites, including our own, to find out which colleges have the most active, fun, and boozy social scene....
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We have made it to the Sweet 16. Only 4 more rounds to go until a new NCAA Basketball champion will be crowned. Just for the fun of it, we compiled the field of 16’s GreekRank sorority rankings. Let’s see who would win the big dance if it were determined by GreekRank ranking alone....
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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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We are highlighting one quintessential sorority chapter or each state in our nation. We’ve already selected the chapters for the first 25 states. Here are numbers 26-50. These sororities are being recognized for their philanthropy work both on and off campus. Each chapter is a proud representation of their respective states....
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Over the last couple weeks we’ve put the spotlight on the most adorable pledge classes of the West and Midwest. I don’t want to call it now… but it looks like once again the south has delivered the cutest new member classes in the country. Check out these true southern belles in the next installment of this series and you be the judge of which region is killing the sorority game this fall!...
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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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When a national governing body suspends its own chapter and a university pulls recognition on top of that, something went seriously wrong. That's what happened to the Sigma Nu chapter at NC State, and if you've been paying any attention to Greek life news lately, you know this isn't a one-off. But I want to push past the reflexive hot takes here - because I think there's something specific worth examining in how this one played out.
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There's a version of pledging that looks like this: you do everything you're told, you never push back, you laugh at things that aren't funny, and you spend ten weeks trying to make yourself whatever you think the actives want you to be. And then you get initiated, and you look around, and you don't really know any of these people - and they don't really know you. Congratulations. You made it. Kind of.
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