There's a version of Greek life philanthropy that's basically performance art. You set up a table at the student union, you hand out fliers, maybe you collect some canned goods, and then you post about it on Instagram and call it service. It checks the box. It doesn't do much else. What happened at the University of Memphis with Greeks Got Talent is something different, and I think it's worth paying attention to why.
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On every campus across the country there are a couple sororities that win their bid day. Of course, this is a matter of opinion, but we have pretty strong photo evidence that these 10 sororities set the bar for bid day excellence. There’s no one way to win a bid day, but you know winning when you see it. Allow us to explain just how these 10 sororities won their bid days....
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The 96th Miss America pageant, will be held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Sunday, September 11, 2016. In total, there are 52 young women competing for the title of Miss America 2017. 17 of the 52 are currently or were recently active in a sorority. Let’s highlight the sisters who are representing their chapters on the grand stage....
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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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When a university hits pause on its entire Greek system over racism concerns, the instinct for a lot of alumni is to get defensive. To say it's just a few bad actors, or that the chapter responsible doesn't represent the whole, or that pausing everything punishes people who did nothing wrong. I get that instinct. I've felt it. But Lehigh University's decision to pause Greek life after racism-related incidents surfaced tells us something uncomfortable that we should probably sit with instead of immediately dismissing.
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There's a version of Greek life that existed before March 2020, and then there's the version that came back after. They are not the same thing. I graduated in 2024, which means I got a front-row seat to both - the before stories from older brothers and the messy, confusing, sometimes genuinely better reality of what actually returned. And I think most people are still trying to figure out what stuck and what just quietly disappeared.
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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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