So students at the University of Wyoming showed up to a Board of Trustees public comment session to talk about Greek life. Not just to talk about it - to advocate for it, push back on it, and air out grievances in front of the people who actually hold the budget strings. And honestly? Good. That's exactly how this is supposed to work.
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Some US cities are lucky enough to have a major university within its borders. These schools change the entire dynamic of the town. There are certain characteristics about a college town that most other cities cannot match up to. Familiar, charming, and historical are just some of the words that can be used to describe the college towns that made our top ten list....
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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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We are highlighting one quintessential sorority chapter or each state in our nation. We’ve already selected the chapters for the first 25 states. Here are numbers 26-50. These sororities are being recognized for their philanthropy work both on and off campus. Each chapter is a proud representation of their respective states....
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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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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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Georgia Southern just swept a bunch of Greek life recognition awards, and honestly, most people outside the Southeast are probably sleeping on how significant that is. We're not talking about a participation trophy situation here. When a university's Greek community dominates at that level, it usually reflects something structural - something the chapters have been building quietly for years while other schools were busy fighting about whether Greek life should exist at all.
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Every fall, some university PR office puts out a press release saying Greeks have a higher collective GPA than the rest of campus. And every fall, somebody on Reddit calls it propaganda. I get the skepticism. I really do. When you've seen a pledge week that looks more like a sleep deprivation experiment than a welcome event, "academic excellence" feels like something printed on a recruitment brochure and nowhere else. But after four years in a fraternity - I was in Sigma Chi at a mid-size state school - I actually think the GPA data is mostly real. The reasons behind it are just more complicated than anyone wants to admit.
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Every recruitment cycle, Panhellenic councils across the country send out the same reminders. No contact with PNMs outside of official events. No social media DMs. No invitations to chapter houses during formal recruitment. No gifts. The rules exist in writing, they get reviewed at officer training, and chapters sign off on them every single year. And then recruitment starts, and some of those same chapters immediately start breaking them.
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A writer over at The Miami Hurricane just said what a lot of people in Greek life won't: she'd never go through sorority recruitment again. Not for anything. And honestly, reading that piece hit different than I expected, because she's not wrong about the hard parts - and I think guys in IFC spaces need to sit with that for a second instead of just scrolling past it.
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