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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So WGN-TV ran a piece on something called the "Rush Bible" - apparently a guide promising to help women crush sorority recruitment with the right scripts, outfits, and strategies. And look, I get it. Sorority rush is intense. The pressure is real and the stakes feel enormous when you're an 18-year-old trying to find your people. But reading about this whole coaching industry made me genuinely uncomfortable, and not for the reasons you might expect.
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Every year, thousands of PNMs walk into sorority houses armed with advice about what to wear, what to say, and how to smile. Nobody briefs them on what to actually watch for. And I mean the structural stuff - the stuff that tells you whether a chapter is healthy or quietly falling apart. After two years on Panhellenic council, I've seen what new members don't notice until it's too late.
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When Alpha Tau Omega at Emory got hit with sanctions for alcohol and hazing violations, I didn't feel surprised. And I don't think most people paying attention to Greek life news did either. That's the part that should actually bother us.
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There's a house a few blocks off campus that everyone knows belongs to a fraternity. No letters on the door, no official affiliation listed anywhere, but you'll see the same guys coming and going every weekend, same flag in the window, same cargo shorts army assembled on the porch. Everybody knows. Nobody says anything. And according to a recent piece from Mustang News at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, this is basically a structured system at this point - fraternities operating what neighbors and locals are calling illegal satellite houses, quietly, in plain sight.
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Before I joined a fraternity, I spent my freshman year watching Greek life from the outside. And what I saw was mostly a feed of professionally lit group photos, matching outfits, philanthropic highlight reels, and captions about brotherhood and sisterhood that read like they were drafted by a PR team. It looked polished. Almost too polished. Which, honestly, was part of why I stayed skeptical for so long.
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The University of Houston just wrapped Greek Week, and the coverage coming out of it is exactly the kind of thing that makes Panhellenic people like me feel two things at once - proud and a little skeptical. Proud because Greek Week, when it actually functions, is one of the best arguments for the whole system. Skeptical because I've sat in enough council meetings to know how much invisible labor goes into making something like that look seamless from the outside.
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