Just when you thought winter was over, it wasn’t. For some in the northern and midwestern parts of the U.S., March 21 doesn’t signal spring as much as it does winter’s halfway point. More than prolonged freezing temperatures, these cities know snow -- one-third get at least four feet of snow a winter. ...
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It takes guts to be one of the inaugural members of a new chapter on campus. The founding members are challenged to build something out of nothing. Much respect to the leaders who not only joined a new chapter, but are quickly taking their chapters to the top ranks at their respective schools. Here are 10 new chapters that are quickly rising to the top....
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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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Transfer students get handed a weird set of rules the moment they step on campus. They're expected to settle in fast, make friends fast, figure out a new school fast - and then, somewhere in that chaos, they're also supposed to figure out Greek recruitment on a timeline that was never designed with them in mind. I've sat in enough Panhellenic meetings to know that the system doesn't exactly roll out the welcome mat. And most councils aren't even embarrassed about it.
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There's a pattern most people don't talk about honestly. A fraternity gets suspended - national headlines, campus outrage, a stern statement from the university - and then six months later everyone kind of forgets about it. Then it happens again. Different chapter, same script. And if you've spent any real time in Greek life, you already know which houses on your campus are perpetually one incident away from losing their charter.
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When a fraternity chapter reaches an agreement with its university to resolve hazing allegations, there are usually two ways people react. Half the campus shrugs and says the chapter got off easy. The other half inside Greek life breathes a sigh of relief and hopes everyone moves on quickly. Neither reaction is really doing the work of understanding what actually happened or what it means going forward.
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There's a Her Campus piece floating around right now about a woman who didn't join a sorority, spent some time with serious FOMO about it, and then eventually found her people and got over it. And look, I read the whole thing. As a guy who spent four years in a fraternity and watched plenty of friends go through the exact same spiral from the other side of it, I have some thoughts.
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Formal season sneaks up on you. One week you're grinding through midterms, and the next you're in a group chat trying to figure out hotel blocks, dress codes, and whether the venue has a good enough playlist. But here's the thing - formal isn't really about any of that. The logistics are just the packaging. What's inside is something most people in Greek life don't fully appreciate until it's almost over.
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UNM's Greek community just raised $57,000 for Storehouse New Mexico during Greek Week. That's a record. And honestly, that number deserves more attention than it's probably getting outside of Albuquerque, because it doesn't happen by accident - and most people who weren't in the room don't understand why.
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Living in a chapter house sounds like a dream until you're six weeks in and you want to strangle the guy whose alarm goes off at 6 a.m. and who never actually wakes up. Roommate problems exist everywhere in college - dorms, apartments, co-ops - but something about sharing a house with 30 to 80 of your brothers or sisters makes the friction feel more personal. Because it is.
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