Few will beg to differ when we say Halloween weekend is one of the most fun times of the year. When the costumes come out -- from the clever Adult Swim characters to the barely there get-up's -- it seems alter ego’s do as well, with typically chill houses throwing down with the wildest parties and the most introverted among us finally coming out of their shells....
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Who’s dorm rooms look like a page out of Better Homes and Gardens or Dwell Magazine? These dorm rooms. Here’s the best of dorm room decor this semester....
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Recruitment season for most schools is in the rearview mirror. Bids have been extended to and accepted by thousands of new members across the country. Just like a bride on her wedding day, there are few days in a girls life when she glows as much as she does on bid day. It is now time for chapters to flaunt the new adorable additions to their houses. Just like we did in the spring, here is a list of the 10 cutest sororoity pledge classes in the nation for Fall Semester 2017....
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Greek across the country are tackling big problems. Greeks understand that you can have fun while working toward a worthy cause. This month's top philanthropy events raised awareness and funding for serious issues that sometimes go overlooked by the rest of society. We are very proud in the work done this month by Greeks across the country. Keep up the good work....
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BigLittleReveal is one of best days of a new member’s sorority career. They literally get a whole new family. There are generally two ways for a bigs/g-bigs to have this special day play out for their new little. Many choose to go with the traditional reveal strategy of “less dress cute and take girly pictures of us hugging”. Then there’s the “let’s make this as fun and silly of an experience as possible” approach. Let’s celebrate the girls who chose to get weird with it in fall 2016....
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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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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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