There's a headline making the rounds from Student Life at Washington University in St. Louis, and it's framing fraternity expansion as some kind of red flag - a sign that the Abolish Greek Life movement is losing ground and that's somehow alarming. I've read it a few times now. And I get what the writers are going for. But I think they're reading the situation backwards.
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Funny thing about freshman year dormitory halls these days: they’re often nicer than anything you can find off-campus or in the Greek village. Which schools are worth attending just for their swanky student housing?...
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Many of the universities across the country hold their formal recruitment during the fall semester. There are schools, however, that wait until the spring semester to hold their formal recruitment (also call deferred recruitment). Some of the sororities at these deferred recruitment schools shouldn’t by any means be overshadowed by the fall recruitment season. Here are 5 sororities at these schools that are a must-rush this spring semester....
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Sororities are great at many things: hosting campus wide events, coming up with new and interesting t shirt ideas, and of course blowing glitter at cameras. However, the one thing that sororities do best is expand. They do this through recruitment, snapping up eager new freshman, promising and often delivering an amazing and friend-filled college experience. However, sororities also expand in other, more daring ways—one of which is colonizing new chapters. Here are 7 new chapters of 2016 who are poised to do great things....
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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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Nobody ever explained to me why my fraternity was called what it was. Like, I knew the letters, I wore the letters, I had the letters embroidered on approximately seven hoodies. But the actual reason those specific Greek characters got slapped onto our house? Total mystery. Turns out there's a whole history behind this stuff, and it's way more interesting than the two-minute spiel you get during rush week.
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There's a version of Greek life that only exists in-person. The handshake that lingers a second longer than it needs to. The moment a potential new member walks into a chapter room and just feels it. The way a conversation over a crowded table somehow turns into a genuine connection. I don't think you can replicate that on a Zoom call. But in 2020, sororities across the country had no choice but to try - and a recruitment vlog from that era, recently surfaced through Fathom Journal, is a pretty striking reminder of what that actually looked like.
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A 19-year-old student was critically hurt. Rutgers shut down the fraternity. And then - nobody got charged. That sequence of events should bother people more than it apparently does, because it's the part of hazing stories that tends to get skipped over in the coverage.
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Most people join a sorority or fraternity and then wait. They pay dues, show up to events, take the group photos, and four years later they graduate wondering why Greek life didn't do more for them. Here's the thing - it wasn't going to come find you. Not ever.
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Every guy in a fraternity has heard some version of this pitch: join us, and you'll have brothers for life - brothers who will hire you, refer you, open doors for you. It sounds almost too good to be true. And honestly? Sometimes it is. But sometimes it genuinely isn't, and the difference matters a lot more than anyone in recruitment will admit.
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