College can be a whole lot more enjoyable when you’re not faced with the pile of student debt looming over you post-graduation. But what many don’t realize is that one small step can make mitigating that load a lot easier: taking the time to apply for scholarships, grants, merits and other financial aid....
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Think your university has strong Greek roots that go way back? The first collegiate social Greek organizations in North America were established in the first half of the 19th century. A few schools proudly proclaim they are the “Mother of Greek Life” or the “Mother of Fraternities”. We have assembled a list of universities that can boast the greatest number of fraternities and sororities established on their campuses....
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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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A Wall Street Journal piece dropped recently about the rise of sorority rush consultants, and I've been thinking about it ever since. Not because it's shocking - honestly, it's not - but because it captures something that's been quietly shifting in Greek life for a while now, and I'm not sure we're talking about it honestly enough.
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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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