Recruitment season for most schools is in the rearview mirror. Bids have been extended to and accepted by thousands of new members across the country. Just like a bride on her wedding day, there are few days in a girls life when she glows as much as she does on bid day. It is now time for chapters to flaunt the new adorable additions to their houses. Just like we did in the spring, here is a list of the 10 cutest sororoity pledge classes in the nation for Fall Semester 2017....
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What better way to brag about your strong sisterhood and eventful nights out than an entire page dedicated to what your sorority chapter is all about? Imagine hundreds of unique and creative photos tagged with a catchy tune to make you wish you could become a part of an incredible organization. Sororities have taken it upon themselves to use Tumblr to its full potential and get their names and chapters out there...
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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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Recruitment chairs are great at a lot of things. Remembering your name after meeting 200 guys in two days, cracking jokes that land at 10 a.m., making a house with peeling paint feel like the obvious choice. But breaking down the actual financial commitment? That part somehow always gets left out of the conversation. You find out the real number around week three of pledging, right after you've already told your parents you joined.
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Penn State just announced a new fall Greek life recruitment timeline option, and honestly, I've been thinking about it more than I expected to. Timeline changes sound like administrative housekeeping - the kind of thing that gets a paragraph in the student paper and then disappears. But this one actually touches something real about how recruitment works and who it ends up serving.
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Good Morning America ran a piece recently about how to survive sorority recruitment. Tips on what to wear, how to talk, how to present yourself. The kind of stuff that gets packaged as advice but really just teaches women to perform for a week and hope the right house picks them. I read it as an IFC guy who has watched rush from the other side of the fence, and honestly, something about the framing bothered me in a way I couldn't shake.
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Continuous open bidding gets sold as this flexible, low-pressure alternative to formal recruitment. Chapters that didn't hit their quota during fall rush, PNMs who missed the official process, everyone gets another shot. Sounds reasonable on paper. But after sitting through more Panhellenic council meetings than I can count, I can tell you that COB is one of the most mismanaged tools in the Greek governance playbook - and almost nobody talks about why.
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Ohio State just disbanded a fraternity over hazing and alcohol violations, and if your first reaction was a shrug, I get it. This kind of headline has a rhythm to it by now. School investigates chapter. Chapter gets suspended or shut down. University releases a statement about values and community standards. Everyone moves on until the next one. But I think there's something worth sitting with here before we scroll past it.
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I joined my sorority as a freshman who wanted friends and left four years later with a lot more than that - and also a lot more complicated feelings than I expected. The graduation cap comes off and suddenly you're supposed to have this tidy narrative about how Greek life shaped you. I don't have that. What I have is a perspective that shifted pretty dramatically once I wasn't living inside it anymore.
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Every chapter has one. He sits somewhere in the middle of chapter meetings, maybe gives a two-minute update about GPA requirements, and then everybody moves on to argue about the date party theme. The academic chair. Probably the most overlooked elected position in any fraternity, and honestly, one of the most important ones a chapter can have - if the guy in the seat actually takes it seriously.
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