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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Something shifted on campuses around 2021 and it didn't stop shifting. Fraternities that once operated like they were untouchable started showing up to community service events, posting about mental health, running DEI workshops, hosting sober socials. And the question everyone's been too polite to ask out loud is: is any of this actually real, or is it just really good PR?
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There's a piece from the Collegiate Times making the rounds right now with a pretty blunt premise: your For You page has been lying to you about what college actually looks like. And honestly, as someone who graduated in 2024 after four years deep in fraternity life, I read it and felt something. Not surprise. More like the specific exhaustion of watching a problem you lived through finally get a headline.
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If you're a freshman girl who just heard the word "recruitment" for the first time and your only reference point is TikTok montages of girls crying and jumping up and down in matching outfits - you are not alone, and you are also working with incomplete information. Panhellenic formal recruitment is one of the strangest, most structured, most genuinely meaningful processes on a college campus, and almost nobody explains it to you before you're already in it.
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Award ceremonies in Greek life get dismissed a lot. I get it - they can feel like a participation trophy situation where every chapter gets a plaque and everyone goes home feeling validated without anything actually changing. But the Ritter Awards at Mississippi State University are worth paying attention to, and not just because MSU's Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life put out a press release about it.
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When Greek life membership more than doubles at a university, you don't just shrug and move on. That's not a rounding error. That's not a fluke year. UA Little Rock's Greek system apparently did exactly that, and I think it deserves more than a feel-good headline and a pat on the back.
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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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