Every PNM is looking for a strong sisterhood, good reputation, and of course…a beautiful sorority house to call home for the rest of their college career. Every semester we list the top sorority houses in the US. Click here to check out The 10 Best Sorority Houses In America - Spring 2017. Here are the rankings for Fall 2017. ...
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Is your house chef still sticking to the same rotation of like 10 different meals that mostly remind you of grade school cafeteria food? Seriously, this article is just going to make you jealous. Some sorority chefs are offering their girls 5-star restaurant treatment. Let’s take a look at 7 of the nation’s top sorority house chefs who just might make the girls of their house long for their food over the food they grew up with at home....
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No matter what your ranking is, or how many girls are in your sorority, every chapter has great girls involved. That being said, every year on every campus one can find a few sororities that every girl wants to join. These are the girls with the highest GPAs, strongest sisterhoods, highest fundraising goals, and overall best chapters around. These are the chapters with girls who will set the standards for Greek life at their universities. Here's a list of 10 of these chapters…...
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Stereotypical representations of Greek Life are everywhere. Films like “The House Bunny” paint a picture of the “typical” sorority girl. Society tends to view Greek Life in a negative light—typically as a group of people who care just a little too much about partying. While Greek life will provide you with a more active social life, this is actually only a minor aspect of what being Greek is about. Check out these chapters from each of the 50 states...
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Fall recruitment is upon us. Think your sorority has a strong 2015 group of new members? Boy, from what we have seen, rush went very well for some west coast chapters. From Pullman, Washington to sunny SoCal, here is a list that puts the spotlight on some of the newest pledge classes who are making their chapters shine....
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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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Most chapter events don't fall apart because of bad ideas. They fall apart because nobody figured out who was actually in charge. I learned this the hard way during my first semester as an active, when what should have been a straightforward mixer with a sorority turned into two weeks of group chat chaos, three people who thought they were in charge, and a venue that got double-booked. The event still happened. It was fine. But fine isn't what anyone was going for.
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Every few years, a wave of high-profile assault cases hits the news cycle and suddenly everyone's got an opinion about whether fraternities should exist at all. The ABC News story making rounds right now is the latest version of that conversation - calls to shut down frat houses entirely as public anger over rape cases grows louder. I've heard this argument before. I've sat in Panhellenic council meetings where the exact same pressure was bleeding over into how we handled our own policies, our own relationships with IFC chapters, our own event approval processes. And I'll say what I said then: closing houses doesn't close the problem.
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There's a specific kind of chaos that hits Greek row the week before homecoming. Float builds happening at midnight. Someone's little sister from three towns over showing up unannounced. A chapter president stress-eating dining hall waffles at 2am because the banner isn't drying fast enough. I lived that chaos for four years, and I'm not even a little bit sorry about it. Homecoming week is the thing I describe to people who ask me if Greek life was worth it - and it shuts them up every time.
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Every few years, something happens at Cornell and the whole country acts like Greek life just invented itself. The New York Times is back on the beat, the op-eds are flying, and university administrators everywhere are dusting off their "embrace or ban" talking points like it's a policy debate and not a conversation about actual students. I've seen this cycle. I lived through a version of it. And honestly, the framing is what frustrates me most.
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