Funny thing about freshman year dormitory halls these days: they’re often nicer than anything you can find off-campus or in the Greek village. Which schools are worth attending just for their swanky student housing?...
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There is no better way to start a new year and a new semester than by hanging out with your sisters. Starting any semester with a sisterhood event is a fantastic idea. First, the sisters who take the responsibility to organize it had plenty of time over break to plan ahead. Second, everyone is starved to see each other after such an extended time apart. Lastly, let’s get real…its syllabus week which is the least stressful and least busy time of each semester. This perfect storm allows for early second semester sisterhood events to be some of the best of the year. Looking for some ideas for your next event? Here are three sisterhood events that started off the year the right way....
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Sororities pride themselves on displays of unity, creativity, and unforgettable memories. There is no better day of the year than bid day to for a chapter to put on a show that meets all three of those criteria. We already shared our list of the 10 Southern Chapters That Won Bid Day – Fall 2016. Here’s a list of 10 sorority chapters up north who won bid day Fall 2016 by going the extra mile to make it a special day for their new members, celebrating unparalleled sisterhoods, having the time of their lives, being comfortable in their own skin, and taking the best pics....
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Alcohol is usually not hard to come by off-campus. Some campuses are taking the approach that if they serve it themselves they can better control the alcohol consumption of their students. Do schools that serve their own alcohol have higher on-campus arrest rates than the universities that don’t? Read more to find out. Here's a list of some of the most booze-friendly campuses in the US....
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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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Pledge semester is a weird psychological experiment. You're new, you want to belong, and the people deciding whether you belong have more social leverage than you do right now. That combination makes it really easy to slip into full people-pleasing mode - nodding along to everything, never pushing back, doing whatever it takes to get initiated. And honestly? That approach might work short-term. But it tends to backfire in ways you don't see coming until you're already in too deep.
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I've spent more time in sorority houses than most IFC guys would admit. Between philanthropy events, study sessions that spilled over into someone's chapter room, and the times my little dragged me to something at her girlfriend's house in Delta Delta Delta, I've seen enough to have a real opinion. And what I've seen is genuinely interesting - not what you'd expect from the outside.
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Penn State just quietly did something that most schools haven't had the guts to try - they introduced a new fall Greek life recruitment timeline option. And if you're reading that and thinking 'okay, cool, a scheduling tweak, who cares,' I get it. I would have scrolled past that headline too. But sit with it for a second, because this is actually a bigger deal than it looks.
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There's a headline making the rounds from Student Life at Washington University in St. Louis, and it's framing fraternity expansion as some kind of red flag - a sign that the Abolish Greek Life movement is losing ground and that's somehow alarming. I've read it a few times now. And I get what the writers are going for. But I think they're reading the situation backwards.
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I lived off-campus my freshman year in a standard two-bedroom apartment with a roommate I barely knew by May. It was fine. Quiet, actually. I could control my own schedule, cook when I wanted, and nobody was in my business. When I joined a fraternity sophomore year, moving into the chapter house felt like the biggest lifestyle shift of my life - and honestly, it was. But not always in the ways I expected.
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