Daniella Uvaldo is leading a sorority at Columbia while being a first-generation college student in the engineering school. That sentence alone probably would have sounded like a weird combination to a lot of people ten years ago. It doesn't sound weird to me at all - and I think that says something real about where Greek life is actually headed.
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There’s plenty to be said about the top party schools or the best schools for Greek life. But what if you’re looking to get out a little more? Interested in culture, concerts, sports, nightlife (outside of your corner college bars), good food and museums? These cities are our top locations for attending college. ...
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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