Jezebel: Greek Life

A Former Frat Boy's Horrifying Story of Semen, Vomit, and Butt Beer

Anna North — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:00 EST

A former Dartmouth frat boy has accused his ex-frat of disgusting hazing practices involving vomit, shit, urine, and what can only be termed "butt beer." Dartmouth authorities say his allegations are false, but are these hazing practices merely par for the course? More »

Frat Suspended After Distributing Rapey Survey

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:10:00 EST

It isn't uncommon for fraternities to get into trouble for hazing or alcohol policy violations, but a University of Vermont fraternity is in hot water simply for circulating a survey to its members. The brothers just wanted to get to know each other a little better by asking for some basic info from one another, like "name," "major," "favorite memories," and "If I could rape someone, who would it be?" Oh...yikes. More »

Yale Suspends Frat Behind Rape Chant

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 17 May 2011 21:53:00 EDT

In an unusual move, Yale University publicly announced that it's finally disciplined Delta Kappa Epsilon, the frat that chanted, "No means yes! Yes means anal!" on campus in October. This wouldn't have something to do with that Title IX gender discrimination suit, would it? More »

Dartmouth Sororities To Punish Frats That Ignore Assault

Anna North — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:20:00 EDT

After an altercation between two students in a fraternity basement last weekend, Dartmouth sororities have enacted a stringent new policy requiring frats to discipline members accused of assault or face social isolation. But not everybody thinks it's a good idea. More »

Frat Life And The USC Email

Irin Carmon — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:50:00 EST

Does it matter if the distributor of a charming guide to the "targeting" of women, with or without their consent, was actually a registered member of a fraternity? And whether or not the document was an original? Some think it does. More »

Trans Student To Rush Texas Sorority

Anna North — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:20:00 EST

For the first time, a trans woman will rush the Zeta Chi sorority at Trinity University in Texas. Hopefully her experience will be more positive than that of other trans people in the Greek system. More »

Duke Frat Boys Are Still Expert Douchebags

Irin Carmon — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:20:00 EDT

Duke frat boys would like the world to know that they still have the stranglehold on the douche factor, thank you very much. More »

LGBT Sorority Busts Greek Stereotypes

Anna North — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:08:00 EDT

The members of UCLA's Gamma Rho Lambda acknowledge that the terms "LGBT" and "sorority" don't necessarily go together for a lot of people. But they hope to change that. More »

The Drug War: A Bad Idea, But It Is So Hard To Feel Bad About The San Diego Fraternity Coke Ring

Moe — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:00:00 EDT

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It's been a few days since we checked in on the massive San Diego State frathouse coke ring. So what more have we learned? Well, they just keep arresting more students. It helps that the school president has been so super supportive. But it wasn't that sophisticated an operation to penetrate! "All it took was saying, `Hey, I go to State, can you hook me up? And then it was off to the races,'" San Diego County prosecutor Damon Mosler told the AP. More »

96 Arrested In Massive San Diego State Inter-Fraternity Coke Ring

Moe — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:30:00 EDT

A year ago this month this pretty young San Diego State University Alpha Phi sister Jennifer Poliakoff died tragically at age 19 of what appeared to be alcohol poisoning. Well, it turned out to be a cocaine overdose... and the coke turned out to be pretty strong... and then someone else died at a SDSU frat house, and, well, to make a long story short, it turned out the San Diego State Greek system was operating a drug ring so massive and highly-connected it sounds like the stuff of an Akon interview, except it is true. (And we thought college Greek organizations/San Diego State students were good for nothing!) Today the San Diego feds announced they had arrested 96 young people in conjunction with the drug ring , 75 of whom were students, in connection with the drug ring. And if you're like me, you're thinking, "Too bad, those were probably 75 of the smartest kids on campus." More »

Inside The Nasty, Brutish World Of Hofstra's Phi Epsilon Sorority

Moe — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:30:00 EDT

So guess what? That thing about the sorority that brands its sisters in the groin with a scalding fork turns out to be quite possibly true. I just called Elyse Eisen — the Hofstra alumna who, yesterday, emailed fellow Phi Epsilon alumni in response to a report in the New York Post containing the allegations of a de-pledged sorority sister who claimed the sorority was a violent cult — and I asked her, point blank, whether it was true that her sorority brands its sisters with a three-pronged fork to represent their three "values", as we had been hearing. (Because, you know, it seemed like a bizarre claim to me, and although I knew branding was popular with African American fraternities such a practice would not seem to carry the co-opted symbolism with a bunch of suburban white chicks at school in Long Island.) And then I began receiving emails (including but not limited to this one) from Hofstra alums; emails that lent context and credibility to the emails and that claimed that the sorority had gone so far as to make its symbol a cow — a reference to the branding practice. I mentioned all this — paraphrased of course — to Elyse, dear readers. And she said: "No comment." More »

Would You Believe A Sorority Brands Pledges In The Groin With A Hot Fork?

Moe — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:30:00 EDT

This young woman, Courtney Holt, tells today's New York Post she was violently attacked by a horde of evil roving Hofstra University sorority sisters after de-pledging their sorority because she didn't want to go through with a hazing procedure "which, she said, includes being branded in the groin area with a hot fork." Um, really? Well anyway, that's what she told the New York Post — and also, "Phi Epsilon isn't a sorority, it's cult" — and so today they went ahead and printed that, because that was all there was, without any sort of document or statement from the cops or anything like that, andnow the sorority is sending around an email saying she's full of shit, that actually Courtney is just sort of someone who would make up shit like that. (Blame her insane crackhead mother!) And...UPDATE: a tipster just weighed in. Apparently the fork thing is a venerable tradition or something! That and some thoughts after the jump. More »