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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I've spent enough time in sorority houses to know that the vibe is completely different from anything happening on my side of Greek row. Not better or worse. Just different in ways that are actually kind of fascinating once you stop making jokes about it and pay attention.
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So apparently at Brown University, some sorority women are picking up swords. Not metaphorically. Actual fencing swords. The Brown Daily Herald ran a feature on the overlap between sorority membership and the fencing team, and honestly, my first reaction was to forward it to my old chapter group chat with zero context just to watch people spiral. But once I actually read it, I had to admit - there's something genuinely interesting happening here that the broader Greek life conversation keeps missing.
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Ohio State just revoked a fraternity's recognition for ten years after a student was hospitalized in March. Ten years. Not a suspension. Not a warning. Not a semester of probation and a mandatory educational workshop nobody takes seriously. A decade-long ban. And from where I'm sitting - having spent two years on a Panhellenic council watching universities fumble accountability over and over - that number deserves a real conversation.
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Nobody hands you a manual when you join a fraternity. You show up, you shake hands, you maybe embarrass yourself at a social event, and then slowly - over the course of months - you figure out that there's a whole second layer of rules running underneath everything. Unwritten ones. The kind that older members just kind of expect you to already know, and the kind that freshmen violate constantly without realizing it until someone pulls them aside.
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