Tons of companies started out in collegiate dorm rooms on budgets of nothing. And look at them now -- Facebook, Google, Microsoft -- powerhouses of the tech industry. All it takes is a little (or a lot) of ingenuity, hard work, ambition, and perhaps eventually, a bit of venture capital. These 10 startups were built by college students and if you haven’t heard of them yet, keep a look out. ...
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When you begin to experience the inevitable anxiety that happens during the college experience, there isn’t a lot better to help curb your apprehension than a leisurely stroll through a beautiful campus. There is just something about breathtaking scenery that distracts the brain and allows worries to just fade away. Most college campuses make staying well-kept and pleasant to the eye a priority. However, it would be hard to beat these ten campuses...
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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 pattern on basically every campus you can name. One fraternity gets suspended. They come back. Two years later they're suspended again. Sometimes it's a different chapter of the same national organization at a different school, but it's the same story. And after watching this cycle play out across Greek life for four years, I have some thoughts about why it keeps happening - and what it actually means for everyone else stuck in the fallout.
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I've spent enough time in sorority houses to know that the vibe is completely different from anything happening on my side of Greek row. Not better or worse. Just different in ways that are actually kind of fascinating once you stop making jokes about it and pay attention.
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So apparently at Brown University, some sorority women are picking up swords. Not metaphorically. Actual fencing swords. The Brown Daily Herald ran a feature on the overlap between sorority membership and the fencing team, and honestly, my first reaction was to forward it to my old chapter group chat with zero context just to watch people spiral. But once I actually read it, I had to admit - there's something genuinely interesting happening here that the broader Greek life conversation keeps missing.
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Ohio State just revoked a fraternity's recognition for ten years after a student was hospitalized in March. Ten years. Not a suspension. Not a warning. Not a semester of probation and a mandatory educational workshop nobody takes seriously. A decade-long ban. And from where I'm sitting - having spent two years on a Panhellenic council watching universities fumble accountability over and over - that number deserves a real conversation.
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Nobody hands you a manual when you join a fraternity. You show up, you shake hands, you maybe embarrass yourself at a social event, and then slowly - over the course of months - you figure out that there's a whole second layer of rules running underneath everything. Unwritten ones. The kind that older members just kind of expect you to already know, and the kind that freshmen violate constantly without realizing it until someone pulls them aside.
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The University of Iowa is investigating multiple Greek chapters for potentially violating student organization policies. That's the headline. And if you've spent any real time inside Greek life, your first reaction probably wasn't shock - it was something closer to a tired, knowing exhale.
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Every August, Panhellenic councils across the country run the same choreographed production: structured rounds, timed conversations, strict silence periods, bid day theatrics. It works. It's also exhausting, politically messy, and frankly kind of broken in ways most councils won't admit out loud. I've sat in recruitment chair meetings where grown women cried over quota numbers. I've watched chapters get penalized for a single violation that another chapter committed twice without consequence. So when people ask me whether formal or informal recruitment is better, I never give them a clean answer - because there isn't one.
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