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. ...
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Sororities are great at many things: hosting campus wide events, coming up with new and interesting t shirt ideas, and of course blowing glitter at cameras. However, the one thing that sororities do best is expand. They do this through recruitment, snapping up eager new freshman, promising and often delivering an amazing and friend-filled college experience. However, sororities also expand in other, more daring ways—one of which is colonizing new chapters. Here are 7 new chapters of 2016 who are poised to do great things....
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While there are plenty of excellent colleges without much of a Greek Life, it’s important to acknowledge the positive influence that having a strong Greek Life presence on campus offers students. From the percentage of undergraduate students involved in Greek Life to the number of chapters on each campus, the following schools have risen above the rest. Checkout the following list of colleges across the country that offer the best Greek Life experiences by the numbers:...
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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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There's a headline making the rounds from Student Life at Washington University in St. Louis, and it's framing fraternity expansion as some kind of red flag - a sign that the Abolish Greek Life movement is losing ground and that's somehow alarming. I've read it a few times now. And I get what the writers are going for. But I think they're reading the situation backwards.
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I lived off-campus my freshman year in a standard two-bedroom apartment with a roommate I barely knew by May. It was fine. Quiet, actually. I could control my own schedule, cook when I wanted, and nobody was in my business. When I joined a fraternity sophomore year, moving into the chapter house felt like the biggest lifestyle shift of my life - and honestly, it was. But not always in the ways I expected.
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Georgia Southern just swept a bunch of Greek life recognition awards, and honestly, most people outside the Southeast are probably sleeping on how significant that is. We're not talking about a participation trophy situation here. When a university's Greek community dominates at that level, it usually reflects something structural - something the chapters have been building quietly for years while other schools were busy fighting about whether Greek life should exist at all.
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Every fall, some university PR office puts out a press release saying Greeks have a higher collective GPA than the rest of campus. And every fall, somebody on Reddit calls it propaganda. I get the skepticism. I really do. When you've seen a pledge week that looks more like a sleep deprivation experiment than a welcome event, "academic excellence" feels like something printed on a recruitment brochure and nowhere else. But after four years in a fraternity - I was in Sigma Chi at a mid-size state school - I actually think the GPA data is mostly real. The reasons behind it are just more complicated than anyone wants to admit.
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Every recruitment cycle, Panhellenic councils across the country send out the same reminders. No contact with PNMs outside of official events. No social media DMs. No invitations to chapter houses during formal recruitment. No gifts. The rules exist in writing, they get reviewed at officer training, and chapters sign off on them every single year. And then recruitment starts, and some of those same chapters immediately start breaking them.
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A writer over at The Miami Hurricane just said what a lot of people in Greek life won't: she'd never go through sorority recruitment again. Not for anything. And honestly, reading that piece hit different than I expected, because she's not wrong about the hard parts - and I think guys in IFC spaces need to sit with that for a second instead of just scrolling past it.
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