As fall semester comes to a close, we look back at some of 2017’s best sorority recruitment videos. There was no shortage of primo slow-motion scenes, EDM and drone footage, but we’ve whittled down the list to these top 11 sorority recruitment videos that offer something more than the stereotype....
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As the weather begins to get a little warmer and there's no snow in sight, it is easy to forget the treacherous winter conditions that many of us were dealing with on our campuses just a few short weeks ago. This winter was definitely one for the books, and some locations throughout the United States got hit with snow especially hard this season. Here is a list of ten campuses that experienced some of the snowiest 2014-2015 winter seasons....
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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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Nobody walks into a chapter meeting fired up about GPA plaques. I get it. You've got ritual, you've got brotherhood, you've got a hundred other things competing for your attention. But I've watched chapters let their academic standing slide for years running, brush it off as a non-issue, and then act surprised when the university starts breathing down their necks. The award thing isn't just a plaque. It's a signal - and right now, a lot of chapters are sending the wrong one.
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Eastern Michigan University is gearing up for Greek Week, and honestly, my first reaction was something like relief. Not because Greek Week is some perfectly run machine - it never is - but because it still exists. Because chapters are still showing up for it. Because someone over in Fraternity and Sorority Life at EMU is still doing the work to make it happen.
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Homecoming week is the one time a year when the whole Greek community collectively decides sleep is optional and chapter points are everything. And honestly? I don't regret a single exhausted Tuesday morning because of it. Four years of homecoming with my fraternity gave me some of my clearest, loudest, most chaotic memories from college - and I think that's kind of the point.
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Every recruitment cycle, I watched the same argument play out in Panhellenic meetings. Someone would push for tighter values-based criteria - structured conversations, consistent evaluation rubrics, documented reasoning for cuts - and at least two chapter presidents would roll their eyes like we'd just proposed banning bid day entirely. And every single time, those same chapters were the ones filing grade appeals or showing up to standards hearings six months later. That pattern is not a coincidence.
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There's an opinion piece floating around from The Tiger at Clemson that's been making the rounds in Greek circles this week. The author, DeVincens, takes aim at sorority recruitment - arguing that sororities are overrated and that women should think twice before rushing. I read the whole thing. And honestly, it rubbed me the wrong way, and not just because I'm an IFC guy who thinks Greek life gets unfairly torched in the press.
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Every fraternity recruiter will tell you the same thing during rush: join us, and you'll have brothers opening doors for you for the rest of your life. It's practically in the script at this point. But I've spent enough time around Greek life - and talked to enough guys a few years out - to know that the honest answer is way more complicated than that pitch suggests.
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When I first heard about the fatal hazing case out of Northern Arizona University, my gut reaction wasn't shock. It was something closer to exhaustion. Another headline, another fraternity, another family that lost someone. And here's the thing I keep coming back to - I joined a fraternity. I'm still in one. So when these stories break, they don't feel abstract to me anymore.
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