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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Sorority life has not always been Lululemon and bid day YouTube videos. Take a trip back in time through this photo gallery that includes photos of sorority chapters from each decade since 1880. It's fascinating to see how not only how fashion changed throughout the decades, but also the changes of the poses and general mood of the photos. Apparently, the first time a sorority girl smiled in a photo was in ...
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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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Only a couple regions to go, but while I expected some gorgeous ladies in the South, West, or Midwest, I was surprised at how well these back-east babes turned out in Fall 2015! Smart AND beautiful, these pledge classes might have put em all to shame....
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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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Nobody warned me that formal season has logistics. I thought it was just, show up in a suit, take some pictures, have a good night. Then I joined Sigma Chi as a sophomore and watched our social chair spend three weeks coordinating a venue, a shuttle, a photographer, a DJ, catering deposits, and a guest list spreadsheet that went through like six versions. It's basically event planning with a dress code. And once I understood that, the whole experience made a lot more sense.
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There is no Greek tradition that splits the room harder than the serenade. Not formals, not bid day, not even the annual argument about whether your chapter's founding date is actually correct. Serenades are either this deeply meaningful, weirdly emotional brotherhood or sisterhood moment - or they are seven minutes of grown adults standing outside a building singing slightly off-key while a row of people judge them from a balcony like some kind of ancient ritual no one has fully explained. And depending on your school, you might be experiencing one or the other.
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The University of Central Oklahoma is hosting a Greek Preview Day on April 10, and if you're a prospective student or a curious freshman thinking about rushing, you're probably a little excited about it. That's fair. I was too, once. But I want to talk about what these preview events actually are - and what they're not - because nobody told me the difference before I walked into mine.
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There's a moment every chapter officer hits eventually. You're on the phone with your national headquarters, trying to get a simple answer about your recruitment budget or a new member education policy, and you realize - this person has no idea who you are, what your campus is like, or what you actually need. They're reading from a script. And your chapter is just one of two hundred dots on a spreadsheet they'll never look at twice.
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ABC News ran a piece recently on how to handle sorority recruitment - the competitive side of it, the strategy, the pressure. And look, I get why mainstream outlets cover it. Recruitment season is genuinely stressful, and for a lot of women going through Panhellenic for the first time, it can feel like a gauntlet nobody prepared them for. But watching the Greek experience get filtered through a news segment makes me realize how much gets lost in translation every single time.
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