Before taking off for winter break, most sororities took the time to decorate their house for the holidays. Many simply set up a Christmas tree and maybe a wreath/garland. It’s all pretty standard and will lead to some cute pictures. Yet, some sororities go the extra mile by decking out the outside of their houses with holiday decorations. Let’s take a look at some of the chapters from across the country that win when it comes to holiday spirit...
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Is it getting cold outside on your campus? Is the lack of sunshine starting to get to you? Maybe you’ve already experienced some snow. Well, here’s 7 campuses that are likely in for a much longer, snowier winter than you…and they own it....
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Alcohol is usually not hard to come by off-campus. Some campuses are taking the approach that if they serve it themselves they can better control the alcohol consumption of their students. Do schools that serve their own alcohol have higher on-campus arrest rates than the universities that don’t? Read more to find out. Here's a list of some of the most booze-friendly campuses in the US....
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As the weather begins to get a little warmer and there's no snow in sight, it is easy to forget the treacherous winter conditions that many of us were dealing with on our campuses just a few short weeks ago. This winter was definitely one for the books, and some locations throughout the United States got hit with snow especially hard this season. Here is a list of ten campuses that experienced some of the snowiest 2014-2015 winter seasons....
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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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Virginia Commonwealth University just suspended a fraternity over hazing and assault allegations, and if you've spent any time around Greek life, you already know the basic shape of this story. Another chapter, another investigation, another university forced to act publicly on something that was probably an open secret for a while. It's not surprising. That's kind of the problem.
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There's a type of alumni event guest who shows up before the actives do, knows where the good snacks are hidden, and somehow ends up in every group photo. She graduated four years ago. Maybe six. And she is always there. Not in a mentorship way. Not in a "I'm chaperoning this for liability reasons" way. Just... there. Camped out like she never left.
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When I was in school, the worst internal conflict my chapter ever had was a heated argument over whether to get a foosball table or fix the back porch railing. We voted on it. Someone's feelings got hurt. We moved on. Nobody called a lawyer. Alpha Phi Delta apparently did not have that luxury, because the fraternity just filed a lawsuit against Greek housing organizations - and that's a sentence I did not expect to read on a Tuesday.
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Junior year, I had a thermodynamics exam on a Tuesday and hadn't slept more than four hours in three days. I was ready to just grind it out alone in the library like I always did freshman year - before I joined. Then my brother Marcus, a mechanical engineering senior, sat down next to me at the chapter house kitchen table at 10 PM and said, "You're doing the energy balance wrong." Two hours later I actually understood it. Passed that exam. And I remember thinking - this is literally what the whole thing is supposed to be for.<
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Bid Day at the University of Nebraska Kearney isn't making national headlines. It's not Alabama. It's not a viral TikTok moment with thousands of girls in matching outfits losing their minds on a quad somewhere. It's a small campus doing a thing that matters quietly, and honestly, that version of Bid Day deserves more attention than it gets.
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