Summer is almost over. Wow that went quick. Potential new members are doing all the research they can ahead of recruitment to make sure they get into one of their top houses. For the last several years we have put together the GreekRank rankings of the best fraternities and sororities in the country in the in each of our categories. Here are GreekRank’s Fall 2017’s top sororities and fraternities in the categories of Sisterhood/Brotherhood, Involvement, Classiness, Popularity, Looks, Fun, And Overall Highest Ranked...
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Sisters, we confidently know that being in a sorority is so much more than the media and pop culture would like to portray. Regardless of what letters you wear, we can all proudly say that our organizations have the same long-standing goal of empowering women. It’s no surprise to us to see that some of the most powerful women in our society are products of Greeklife. Here’s a list of 8 chapters across the country that are going above and beyond in their efforts to empower and support women....
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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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There's a specific kind of clarity that hits somewhere between your cap-and-gown photos and the first time you watch your former chapter post recruitment content on Instagram without you in it. You're not sad exactly. You're just... aware. And you start noticing all the things you spent four years getting completely wrong.
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There's a fraternity at the University of Oklahoma right now sitting on disciplinary probation after a hazing investigation. And if you've been paying attention to Greek life news for more than five minutes, that sentence probably didn't surprise you at all. That's the problem.
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Nobody told me that pledging a fraternity would also mean pledging my calendar. Fall semester of freshman year, I thought I had it figured out - class in the morning, chapter stuff in the evenings, weekends to myself. Then philanthropy weekend hit, homecoming planning started, formal prep began, and I looked up one day in October wondering how I was already behind in three classes. Picking a major inside Greek life isn't just about what you're passionate about. It's about what you can actually sustain when your chapter has a full social calendar and expects you to show up for all of it.
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When news breaks about a fraternity member dying, the first thing most people do is scroll past it, chalk it up to "Greek life being Greek life," and move on. I'm not doing that this time. A Michigan State University fraternity member died, and the Greek life community there is reacting - some with grief, some with calls for change, and some probably just hoping the news cycle moves fast. It deserves more than that.
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I didn't join my fraternity until sophomore year, which meant I spent a full year watching Greek life from the outside. I went to a couple of open events, heard the mixed reviews from my floor, and mostly stayed skeptical. When I finally did join, one of the first things I noticed wasn't the brotherhood stuff people always talk about - it was how much one person's job affected the entire chapter's experience. The social chair. And I mean that in both directions.
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MSU just canceled fraternity recruitment activities following the death of a chapter member. That's the headline. And if you've ever sat on a Panhellenic or IFC council and watched a recruitment freeze play out in real time, you know that sentence contains about a hundred smaller disasters that nobody in the press release bothers to explain.
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Penn State just quietly walked back one of its own Greek life reforms - the one that delayed freshman recruitment until second semester. According to the Centre Daily Times, the university is allowing freshman recruitment to return to the fall, essentially reversing a policy that was supposed to give new students time to adjust to college before rushing. And I have thoughts.
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