Each college is known for having a professor or class that “changes your life.” The professor who calls out student errors like no teacher ever, the course that is impossible to get anything better than a "C" in, the research assignment that has you tenting downtown to get primary data on your town’s homeless population.
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With the new school year quickly approaching, many incoming college students are starting to think about Greek Life for a multitude of reasons. Potential new members across the country will rush sororities as soon as this coming August. If philanthropy is a big part of why you’re looking to pledge, check out these sorority chapters and the events they hold to benefit the charities of their choosing before rushing to “rush.”...
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With over 800 campuses in the United States and Canada that participate in Greek life, naturally it would seem that any college town is a city made for Greeks. However, these five cities not only have the largest amounts of Greeks, but they also have the most thriving Greek life...
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Fraternities are filled with some of the most ambitious and overachieving people in the world. While movies like Animal House tend to portray fraternity brothers as nothing but raging alcoholics, the reality is much different. We take a look at some of the richest and most successful fraternity men today...
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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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Before I joined a fraternity, I had been to exactly zero mixers. I knew the word. I had a general sense it involved two chapters in the same room, probably some kind of theme, probably a lot of noise. But the actual mechanics of it - what it was supposed to be, what it felt like to be new to it, what the point even was - I had no idea. And I don't think most people outside Greek life do either.
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Willamette University put out a story about their Fraternity and Sorority Life program, and honestly it reads like the kind of thing Panhellenic councils across the country wish they could say about themselves without flinching. Scholarship. Service. Friendship. The trifecta. Easy to slap on a brochure, harder to actually build. But from what the story describes, Willamette seems to be doing something that a lot of bigger programs have completely lost track of.
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Every chapter has that one mixer theme they'll talk about for years. The one where everything clicked - the costumes were creative, the energy was there, and nobody ended up on a ladder trying to fix something at the last minute. And then every chapter also has the theme that someone pitched with full confidence in a meeting, got voted in, and slowly revealed itself to be a disaster of planning and coordination. I've been to both kinds. More of the second kind than I'd like to admit.
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There's an opinion piece circulating from the Dayton Daily News about Greek life and the question universities keep avoiding. The piece doesn't name names or cite a specific incident - it's more of a structural argument, the kind that gets published and then quietly ignored by the administrations it's supposedly challenging. But it points at something real. Universities have spent years treating Greek life like a PR problem instead of a governance problem, and the difference matters more than most people realize.
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When a sorority comes back to a campus, most people treat it like a footnote. A line in the student newspaper, maybe a mention at Panhellenic council. But Gamma Phi Beta returning to Northwestern for winter recruitment isn't a footnote - it's actually a story worth paying attention to, especially if you care about what Greek life is supposed to be doing on a campus in the first place.
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