Spring sorority recruitment season is in full swing. PNM's are always looking for the houses that stand out to them. In this spring installment, we have assembled a list of some chapters that we think are poised to have a great recruitment. Be sure to be on the lookout to see if your sorority made the list!...
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Sisters, we confidently know that being in a sorority is so much more than the media and pop culture would like to portray. Regardless of what letters you wear, we can all proudly say that our organizations have the same long-standing goal of empowering women. It’s no surprise to us to see that some of the most powerful women in our society are products of Greeklife. Here’s a list of 8 chapters across the country that are going above and beyond in their efforts to empower and support women....
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While there are plenty of excellent colleges without much of a Greek Life, it’s important to acknowledge the positive influence that having a strong Greek Life presence on campus offers students. From the percentage of undergraduate students involved in Greek Life to the number of chapters on each campus, the following schools have risen above the rest. Checkout the following list of colleges across the country that offer the best Greek Life experiences by the numbers:...
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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 student ends up in the hospital at a fraternity event, the coverage that follows tends to follow a pretty familiar script. University suspends chapter. Statement gets released. People who already hated Greek life feel validated. People inside Greek life go quiet and wait for it to blow over. Rinse, repeat. But the Ohio State situation - where a fraternity was suspended after a student was hospitalized at one of their events - deserves more than that script, especially right now.
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Something shifted on campuses around 2020 and it never fully shifted back. The fraternities that figured that out early are in a completely different position right now than the ones still running the same playbook from 2015. I've watched this from close enough range - four years in a sorority, a lot of time around chapters of Sigma Chi, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and others - and I have thoughts. Not all of them are flattering.
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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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There's a moment on bid day - and I've watched it happen from the outside as an IFC guy - where something shifts. A girl opens that envelope, or rips that bid card, and for a split second the whole world is just her and that piece of paper. Then she screams. And then she runs. And then about forty other women are running toward her. I've seen that happen on campus and I genuinely don't know how anyone watches it and stays cynical about Greek life.
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When I was still a GDI - before I rushed Sigma Chi my sophomore year - I watched a few guys from my floor come back from semester abroad looking like they'd fully disconnected from their fraternities. One of them had missed so many chapter events that his brothers barely acknowledged him at parties. Another came back and basically had to re-introduce himself to the pledge class that had crossed while he was gone. I filed it away as: Greek life and study abroad don't mix well. Then I went abroad myself, junior spring, and realized it's more complicated than that.
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Virginia Tech just published a feel-good piece about their Greeks Giving Back event, and honestly, it's the kind of story that makes Panhellenic councils look great on paper. Chapters showing up, logging hours, doing visible community work. The university gets a win. The chapters get coverage. Everyone posts photos. And I'm sitting here thinking about how many of those same chapters are the ones I've watched skate through standards hearings on the strength of their philanthropy numbers alone.
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