We've already covered our list of the top 10 Cutest Pledge Classes In The South, now it's time to check out the cutest from up north. Although a lot of northern schools wait to do their formal recruitment in the spring, we've still compiled a list of some absolutely adorable new members. Let’s take a look at 10 northern sorority chapters who should be extra excited after pulling in some of the cutest pledges of the North's fall 2016 recruitment season....
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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 told me sophomore year was gonna hit like that. I had three philanthropy events, two formals, a brotherhood retreat, and intramural playoffs packed into about six weeks - and somehow I was still supposed to figure out whether I wanted to declare Economics or Communications. My advisor looked at me like I had two heads when I explained why I'd missed her office hours. She didn't get it. But if you're in a chapter right now, you do.
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Before I joined a fraternity, I thought Greek social events were just... parties with a dress code. I was wrong about almost everything. There's an entire operating system running underneath every mixer, philanthropy event, and formal - and nobody hands you a manual when you cross the threshold into Greek life.
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Penn State just held its Greek Column Awards, an annual recognition ceremony for fraternity and sorority leadership and service. And good for them. Genuinely. But every time I see a story like this come across my feed, I feel this weird mix of pride and skepticism that I can't quite shake - because I've sat on the other side of these processes, and I know what these awards actually measure and what they don't.
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Every chapter has that one event where, if you skip it, the older brothers give you a look. Not an angry look - just a disappointed one. Like you just said you've never seen The Godfather. For us, that event was Founders Day. Not the formal. Not homecoming. Not even our date party at the lake house that one spring where things got genuinely legendary. Founders Day. And for a long time, I didn't really get why.
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Xavier University just announced it's welcoming three new Greek chapters to campus, and the reaction from most Greek life observers is going to be some version of "great, more chapters." But I think that response misses the more interesting question. Not whether expansion is happening - it clearly is - but what Xavier is actually setting these new chapters up for, and whether anyone there has thought seriously about what comes next.
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Penn State just announced a new wrinkle in how fraternity and sorority recruitment is going to work - a delayed fall option that gives incoming students more time before they commit to a chapter. And my first reaction, honestly, was somewhere between skeptical and genuinely curious. Because I've seen recruitment done in a way that felt more like a speed-dating cattle call than a real process for finding your people. If Penn State is trying to fix that, I'm at least willing to hear it out.
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Every few months, some op-ed runs with a headline about the death of Greek life. A chapter gets suspended somewhere, enrollment drops at one school, and suddenly everyone's ready to write the obituary. I've been sitting in Panhellenic meetings for three years listening to that same panic, and I'm done with it. Greek life isn't dying. It's restructuring, and if you actually look at what's happening on the ground, the evidence is pretty clear.
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Pledge semester is a weird psychological experiment. You're new, you want to belong, and the people deciding whether you belong have more social leverage than you do right now. That combination makes it really easy to slip into full people-pleasing mode - nodding along to everything, never pushing back, doing whatever it takes to get initiated. And honestly? That approach might work short-term. But it tends to backfire in ways you don't see coming until you're already in too deep.
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