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Another day, another scary hazing story: today, a former Zeta Phi Beta pledge at UC Berkeley accuses her ex-sisters of beating her, making her pee her pants, and lots of other horrible behavior. Her lawsuit also reveals why for some pledges, it can be so hard to simply leave. More »
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Seven sorority members from the University of Maryland have been charged with assault for a violent hazing incident in which they choked and paddled a pledge. And their crimes may be part of a national pattern. More »
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Five female students from Illinois's Monmouth College, several of them members of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma, allegedly conducted a "raid" on a local nativity scene Friday — they stole Mary, Joseph, Jesus, and some animals, then sped off in a maroon SUV. The women will face misdemeanor theft charges and, obviously, an eternity in hell. More »
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The six sorority members from University of Southern Mississippi who thought it was a good idea to go to a costume party in blackface are being punished — and all things considered, the sorority's response is pretty good. More »
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At Washburn University in 1941, Bertie McConnell wanted to join Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, but before she could pledge World War II broke out and she dropped out to work in an ammunitions factory. Recently her daughter contacted the sorority hoping to get a card for McConnell's 90th birthday, but instead the sisters surprised her by inducting her as an honorary member. McConnell said she was overwhelmed by the students' generosity adding, "I finally made it." The sisters are about to get an even bigger surprise when McConnell shows up to the next keg party. More »
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Oh, goodness. The Panhellenic executive council at the University of Alabama have put together this fun little video in hopes of convincing incoming freshmen to "Go Greek." Obviously, this video is the Rebecca Black of Panhellenic recruitment videos — but what happens when halfway through the video, the girls shout "remix!" and it actually changes to "Friday" itself? We don't want to be too cruel here, so let's just say that the ladies involved probably don't have any previous rapping experience and probably should not try to do so, ever again. Welcome to internet infamy, 'Bama. More »
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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 »
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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 »
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This year, more female freshman at Harvard rushed for a sorority than in the University's history. This means both less and more than it appears; there are only three sororities on campus, and Greek life has always played second fiddle to the college's more established final club scene. (Remember that AEPi scene in The Social Network? Well, that was sorta realistic.) But it's worth considering, more broadly, why women (and men) seek out social spaces that will include them — and exclude others. More »
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Following an extensive university investigation, George Washington University has charged two fraternities and one sorority with hazing and providing alcohol to minors. More »
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Police say 27-year-old Mitchell Hill is the stalker who posed as a sorority girl to get other students to send him nude photos. He was arrested yesterday in Key West. More »
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A stalker is posing as a sorority sister to convince college girls to perform humiliating stunts and send nude photos — and so far, police haven't been able to track the con artist down. More »
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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 »
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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 »
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Duke is in an uproar about a highly detailed "fuck list" that a recent female graduate made — in PowerPoint, complete with penis-size evaluations and dirty talk transcripts. We've got that document, and spoke exclusively to the now-contrite author. More »
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If there was any doubt that sororities can be every bit as bad as frats, let's dispel it with this tale of all-female hazing. More »
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What's the ethical thing to do when you're questioning your sexuality? According to one advice columnist, you should tell all your sorority sisters! Immediately! More »
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A third Miami University sorority has been disciplined for their spring formal bacchanal — this one filled a bus with barf, trash, and slurs. More »
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The objective of Sorority Life is simple: to be the hottest sister on campus. As you might imagine, the game is both hugely popular and totally demented. And the players aren't who you would expect. More »
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Yesterday we heard about one Miami University sorority's feces-strewn formal. Now it appears another sorority held a similar "drunken pukefest" ... at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. And they chose this wildly inappropriate location for no apparent reason. More »
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A new study reports some not-so-surprising findings, which anyone who went to school with a considerable Greek system probably knew anyhow: Sorority girls have "bulimic attitudes." Not that I've ever heard bulimia referred to as an "attitude." More »
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• Six students from Rutgers have been arrested for violently paddling pledges and depriving them of food, all in the name of sisterhood. The women of Sigma Gamma Rho allegedly told the pledges that the beatings would "humble" them. •  More »
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IvyGate obtained a Pi Phi fashion guide for rushees, and it's hilarious. Read on for Valerie Plame and Jennifer Garner's sorority's official policy on jeggings, muffin top, camel toe, and when and when not to wear "hooker heels." More »
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A real or fake Alpha Chi may have used fire extinguishers in her sorority house to make snow angels, but got in trouble for the violation, which led to an apparent breakdown. More »
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Anna Faris may not be as recognizable as Tina Fey, but she just might be the next great female comedic actress. It seems strange then, that Faris's latest turn is in The House Bunny, the tale of a disposed Playboy bunny who finds a job (and a home) as the den mother of a nerd-filled sorority, where she gives makeovers and lessons in flirting. You can understand why some are disappointed in the film — it is incredibly derivative, taking cues from Legally Blonde (whose writers also wrote this film's script), Revenge of the Nerds, and Mean Girls but missing all the comedic cues. And though the film is one of the few comedies this year written by women and starring a comedic female lead, the only "empowerment" that the characters go through involves a makeover. Still, say reviewers, its saving grace is the unflappable Ms. Faris. Read the reviews after the jump. More »
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Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first black sorority in the United States, celebrated its 100th anniversary recently. It began in a time when students had to worry about lynchings as well as grades. Today, AKA has more than 200,000 members, and, says AKA spokeswoman Melody M. McDowell: "We remain true to our core mission, which is sisterhood and service. We've given away millions in scholarships, we're into voter registration, voter education, we're into leadership." And now there is an AKA Barbie doll, who wears a gown of pink and green, the sorority's colors. Barbara A. McKinzie, the sorority's international president, says: "What a wonderful idea to take a known icon in our society and have the doll look like us." [Washington Post, Washington Post] More »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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Maybe if we had not been soooo preoccupied with the anticipation of the results of Anna Nicole Smith's autopsy that have been bating our breaths and keeping us at the edge of our sofas for the past like nineteen weeks, we would have had time to pay attention to this Attorney General Gonzales scandal that is threatening to start to erode at the nation's approval of the ever popular President Bush or something. But we feel smart for even remembering "the Attorney General" and "Gonzales" are the same person! (Remember when the Attorney General was a chick? Yeah, she wasn't very pretty. But still! ) Thankfully, the blogosphere is around to explain this stuff in language we can understand: sororities. According to this blogger who sounds like he pays attention to this stuff, the whole thing is actually just an official Washington version of a scandal we know all too well: that sorority house that evicted the fat girls! More »
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We've long suspected this: Old, fat and/or Catholic women have the hardest time getting dates. [NY Times] More »
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