Tons of companies started out in collegiate dorm rooms on budgets of nothing. And look at them now -- Facebook, Google, Microsoft -- powerhouses of the tech industry. All it takes is a little (or a lot) of ingenuity, hard work, ambition, and perhaps eventually, a bit of venture capital. These 10 startups were built by college students and if you haven’t heard of them yet, keep a look out. ...
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Whoever said sorority girls are not artsy certainly did not know what they were talking about. If you want to see a showcase of artistic skills in Greek Life, check out sorority paddles! Sorority paddles are gifts in Greek Life that littles give their bigs or bigs give their littles as a sign of their bond and sisterhood within the sorority. Sometimes the paddle has a theme that links the sisters – something they have in common besides the sorority. Other times they’re just made to be absolutely cute and connect the sisters through their aesthetic tastes. The tradition of the paddles dates pretty far back, but these days the décor of them is certainly crafty and upscale. I’ve searched the internet and brought you the 15 best sorority paddles!...
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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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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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A piece in The Miami Student recently made a point that sorority women have been making for years: stereotyping Greek organizations isn't some bold social commentary. It's just mean. And honestly, it's also kind of boring at this point.
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Formal recruitment hasn't changed in any meaningful way in over a decade. The format, the forced conversations, the scripted rounds, the way chapters get ranked and cut before anyone's had a real chance to connect - it's all running on the same logic it ran on in 2005. And nobody on Panhellenic wants to be the one to say it out loud because overhauling recruitment means stepping on a lot of toes. I'll say it.
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There's a recruitment consultant out of Atlanta named Trisha Addicks who just published a book aimed at helping young women find confidence going into sorority recruitment. Atlanta Magazine covered it recently, and when I saw the headline I had two reactions at the same time - impressed, and a little uneasy. Not because what she's doing is wrong. But because it says something pretty loud about where Greek recruitment has gone.
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When a hazing allegation surfaces at a school like Rutgers, the instinct for most people is to slot it into a familiar narrative. Greek life bad, fraternities dangerous, same story different campus. I get it. Before I joined a chapter myself, sophomore year, that was basically my default reaction too. But I've been around long enough now to think that reaction - while understandable - actually gets in the way of asking the more useful questions.
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Nobody really prepares you for what it's actually like to live in a fraternity house. Not the recruitment videos, not the older brothers who act like it's all fine, and definitely not the university housing office. I'm a sorority alumna, not a fraternity brother, but I spent enough time in those houses - as a friend, a study partner, a guest at chapter dinners - to understand what the day-to-day reality looks like. And I've heard enough from guys I know, guys who stuck it out and guys who quietly moved off campus after one semester, to have some actual opinions about this.<
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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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