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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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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Something shifted on campuses around 2021 and it didn't stop shifting. Fraternities that once operated like they were untouchable started showing up to community service events, posting about mental health, running DEI workshops, hosting sober socials. And the question everyone's been too polite to ask out loud is: is any of this actually real, or is it just really good PR?
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There's a piece from the Collegiate Times making the rounds right now with a pretty blunt premise: your For You page has been lying to you about what college actually looks like. And honestly, as someone who graduated in 2024 after four years deep in fraternity life, I read it and felt something. Not surprise. More like the specific exhaustion of watching a problem you lived through finally get a headline.
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If you're a freshman girl who just heard the word "recruitment" for the first time and your only reference point is TikTok montages of girls crying and jumping up and down in matching outfits - you are not alone, and you are also working with incomplete information. Panhellenic formal recruitment is one of the strangest, most structured, most genuinely meaningful processes on a college campus, and almost nobody explains it to you before you're already in it.
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Award ceremonies in Greek life get dismissed a lot. I get it - they can feel like a participation trophy situation where every chapter gets a plaque and everyone goes home feeling validated without anything actually changing. But the Ritter Awards at Mississippi State University are worth paying attention to, and not just because MSU's Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life put out a press release about it.
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