I didn't go to my first real tailgate until I was a sophomore, and even then I showed up kind of skeptical. I'd spent my freshman year doing the GDI thing - watching football from dorms, maybe catching a game with friends who didn't care that much. When I finally got pulled into a full Greek row tailgate setup before a home game, I remember thinking: okay, this is actually something. Not because of the chaos or the crowd, but because there was clearly a tradition behind it. People knew what they were doing. They'd done this before, and their older brothers or sisters had done it before them, and it showed.
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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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Even when the weather is cold, Greeks across the country are still working hard at raising money for the causes dearest to their organizations. Some even use the cold weather to their advantage and host unique winter-themed events. Here are some of the best philanthropy events from across the country for the month of February 2017....
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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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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 piece running in The State Press right now asking whether sorority recruitment has turned into a search for fame rather than a search for sisterhood. And honestly, I've been thinking about that question all week - not from the Panhellenic side, but from where I sit as someone who went through IFC recruitment and watched dozens of women go through theirs at the same time. The question itself tells you something about where Greek life is right now.
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Rush week has a reputation for being chaotic, and yeah, some of that chaos is unavoidable. But there's a specific kind of chaos that isn't random - it's a signal. And most PNMs walking through those doors have no idea what they're actually watching. I spent two years on Panhellenic council processing recruitment violations, mediating chapter complaints, and sitting in rooms where decisions got made that directly affected which women got bids. So I'm gonna tell you what the glossy rush guides leave out.
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Four pledges at Texas State University were arrested on hazing charges after allegedly forcing another student into a truck as part of what police described as a fraternity tradition. Not a rumor. Not a vague allegation that might get walked back. Actual arrests, actual charges, actual consequences - for something that somebody in that chapter looked at and called a tradition.
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Nobody warned me that graduation would feel like getting quietly escorted out of a building I'd lived in for four years. One day you're in chapter meetings, stressing about philanthropy totals and bid day logistics. The next, you're updating your LinkedIn and realizing your sorority is now just a line on your resume. The shift doesn't happen all at once. It creeps up on you, and then one morning you're a full year out and you're seeing recruitment content on your phone and thinking, wow, I used to care so much about that.
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Junior year, I had a 9 AM organic chemistry lab, chapter exec meeting every Sunday at 8 PM, a philanthropy event to coordinate, and three brothers texting me about something related to recruitment. My GPA that semester was the best it had been since I started college. Not despite all of that - because of how I handled it. Most guys in Greek life think the chapter is what's fighting against their academics. They've got it backwards.
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