When Oglethorpe University students launched Lambda Theta Alpha - making it the school's first Latin Greek organization - most people outside Atlanta probably didn't notice. No viral moment, no national coverage. Just a group of students deciding their campus needed something it didn't have yet. And honestly, that quiet kind of founding story is worth paying attention to.
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Ah, that time of year -- sorority recruitment -- where we find ourselves spending too much time in the guilty pleasure that is watching sorority recruitment videos. Usually a well-edited mix of time lapses set against pop techno, girls on speedboats, the latest trends in bikinis, and of course, convertibles cruising coastlines and/or desert backroads. Here are this semester’s best sorority recruitment videos....
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Greeks help others. Every chapter across the nation works hard to hold events to raise awareness and resources for their selected causes. These occasions also offer an opportunity for Greeks from different houses to come together to support each other’s efforts to make the world a better place. Here are some of the best philanthropy events of September 2016 from across the country....
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On April 15, 2016, the brothers of the Theta Delta Chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity at The College of New Jersey raised a total of $12,528.91 for the College’s Relay for Life event. Their outstanding efforts secured a first place finish among a field of about 55 teams, but it is unclear if the fraternity’s achievement was celebrated by the rest of the College. Whether intentional or not, the fraternity’s name was not announced until 5am to a tired and sparse crowd, instead of the usual 12am announcement during the height of the event....
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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 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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Somewhere between 2018 and now, Greek life stopped being something that mostly existed on campus and started existing everywhere. Your parents could see it. Your high school friends in different states could see it. Random people with no connection to your school could see it. And if you were in a chapter during that shift, you felt it in ways that were genuinely weird to process in real time.
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When Oglethorpe University students launched Lambda Theta Alpha - making it the school's first Latin Greek organization - most people outside Atlanta probably didn't notice. No viral moment, no national coverage. Just a group of students deciding their campus needed something it didn't have yet. And honestly, that quiet kind of founding story is worth paying attention to.
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Everyone acts like formal recruitment is this sacred, untouchable process and informal recruitment is the sketchy back-channel thing chapters do when they didn't get enough bids. That framing is wrong, and if you've spent any time on a Panhellenic council actually enforcing these rules, you know how much more complicated it really is.
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A piece ran in The Villanovan recently arguing that sorority recruitment isn't meant to be stressful. And I get the intent behind that. I really do. The author wants PNMs to breathe, to show up as themselves, to stop treating recruitment like a job interview where one wrong answer tanks your whole future. That's a reasonable message. But there's something a little too tidy about it that I can't stop thinking about.
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