We've already covered our list of the top 10 Cutest Pledge Classes In The South and the 10 Cutest Pledge Classes in the North. Now it's time to check out the cutest from out west....
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Greek involvement can provide an enriching college experience for many students. Although Greek life has a dominant presence in the south that often times overshadows the Greek communities in other parts of the country, there are many outstanding chapters located in other regions of the United States. Each of these have their own special qualities that make them some of the top houses in the nation. This list was compiled to showcase some of the amazing sororities hailing from the PAC 12 universities....
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While it might all look like fun and games, working your way towards becoming a beautiful and unique sorority takes years of perseverance from dedicated members. It's time to spotlight many of these exceptional chapters who have remained somewhat under-the-radar nationwide despite continuous contributions to their universities and sisterhoods....
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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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Pledge semester is a weird psychological experiment. You're new, you want to belong, and the people deciding whether you belong have more social leverage than you do right now. That combination makes it really easy to slip into full people-pleasing mode - nodding along to everything, never pushing back, doing whatever it takes to get initiated. And honestly? That approach might work short-term. But it tends to backfire in ways you don't see coming until you're already in too deep.
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A student at CSU Long Beach is alleging that fraternity hazing led to a car crash in Riverside County that killed his friend. That's the short version. And honestly, there's no way to write about something like that without feeling the weight of it first - before any analysis, before any broader commentary about Greek life. Someone died. A friendship ended on a highway because of something that allegedly started inside a fraternity ritual. That has to be said out loud before anything else.
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I've spent more time in sorority houses than most IFC guys would admit. Between philanthropy events, study sessions that spilled over into someone's chapter room, and the times my little dragged me to something at her girlfriend's house in Delta Delta Delta, I've seen enough to have a real opinion. And what I've seen is genuinely interesting - not what you'd expect from the outside.
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Penn State just quietly did something that most schools haven't had the guts to try - they introduced a new fall Greek life recruitment timeline option. And if you're reading that and thinking 'okay, cool, a scheduling tweak, who cares,' I get it. I would have scrolled past that headline too. But sit with it for a second, because this is actually a bigger deal than it looks.
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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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