Harvard University’s Kappa Alpha Theta sorority is going gender-neutral in response to new sanctions imposed on single-gender social clubs. The women-only group announced on Monday that it will break with its national organization to become the co-ed club Theta Zeta Xi, according to The Harvard Crimson.
Florida State University president John Thrasher announced on Monday that all of the school’s fraternities and sororities have been suspended indefinitely, the Washington Post reports. The restrictions are comprehensive; they forbid fraternities and sororities from indulging in intramural activities, parties,…
Town and Country dropped a fun little look into the wild and wooly world of sorority rush consultants, a job that I didn’t even realize was actually a job, and it is fascinating and horrifying in equal measure.
A judge has thrown out involuntary manslaughter charges against eight Beta Theta Pi brothers at Penn State who, in February, waited 40 minutes to call 911 in order to help a brother who laid unconscious in a rigor mortis-like state. District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller had argued that they had rushed 19-year-old…
Whatever goes on during hazing week (or punch week, or whatever)–followed by heavy underage drinking every other week–may be exiled from Harvard’s premises. This morning, a committee of Harvard faculty members recommended that, starting in 2018, the college forbids incoming students from joining “fraternities,…
A 40-year-old South Carolina attorney has been sentenced to six months in prison for defrauding her sorority sisters of money meant to furnish a new house. Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan was convicted in July of defrauding the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority at the University of Alabama. Meehan testified that while she admittedly…
Student leaders at the University of California, Berkeley decided to suspend parties at the school’s fraternities and sororities after two women reported that they were sexually assaulted at off-campus parties earlier this month during the same weekend.
An Alabama sorority decided to print t-shirts that featured both a caricatured black man eating watermelon and field laborers picking cotton just behind him. They reportedly made these shirts for their spring formal, even after the school told them not to. Guess what happened.
Last week, Harvard University President Drew G. Faust announced that members of the school’s single-gender clubs, including final clubs and fraternities and sororities, won’t be allowed to hold leadership positions on campus or be nominated for undergraduate scholarships. The decision, geared at eliminating…
According to a report from the University of Mississippi’s NewsWatch, many campus sororities responded to the backlash against Sigma Chi’s sexist Derby Days competition by instructing their members not to share the initial Facebook post about it, or publicly comment on the incident on social media or to the press.
The editor of Bwog, one of Columbia University’s student-run newspapers, has resigned over a photo of a woman standing near alcohol bottles at the house of sorority Kappa Alpha Theta. Sorority houses aren’t usually allowed to have alcohol; the paper apologized for publishing the image “without considering the full…
We knew last year that viral sorority recruitment videos had jumped the shark—or if not, that they were just about to. That status is official now, with this video from the sisters of Delta Gamma at the University of Miami. These DGs were clearly not satisfied with the pretty spectacular offering they produced last…
University of North Texas junior Sara Mutschlechner, 20, was fatally shot early on New Year’s Day in a road rage shooting. She had offered to serve as a designated driver for her Zeta Tau Alpha sorority sisters as they celebrated New Year’s Eve.
I mean, could it? As was written in the year of our Lord 2015: when it comes to overt racism among wealthy white people, the anonymous internet person shall force all of us to consider what’s plausible, what’s likely, and what we do or do not want to believe.
Earlier this week, University of Alabama sophomore and member of the school student government Alex Smith wrote an op-ed for campus paper the Crimson White about her decision to stop working with “the Machine.” The college’s old boy’s club is also known as Theta Nu Epsilon, and it’s comprised of members of…
Florida State University’s Chi Omega house looks exactly as a sorority house should: large and stately, with a conservative symmetry in its manicured lawn and beige portico that transmits the values of the sisters who live there. With large Greek letters on its exterior and hand-painted banners hung from its…
The University of Alabama’s not-so-secret political coalition The Machine, which controls their Student Government via approved members of the Greek system, has dissent in its midst. On Monday, the student paper The Crimson White published an op-ed from a senator who says she no longer wants to work under their…
Black student groups at UCLA are understandably unhappy after reports leaked out of a predominantly white fraternity and sorority that held a “Kanye Western” themed mixer. According to the student paper, guests wore “baggy clothes, plumped lips and padded bottoms, or as “Kardashians.”
New reports from the University of Alabama claim that one of the black women who was accepted into the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority during the continuous opening bidding process in 2013 spurred from Alabama’s racist pledging process is not getting the support she typically would from her sorority sisters in her run for…
We recently received a tip about a couple of banners hanging on the Sigma Chi fraternity house on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. “We never stop at third base,” one says, over an all-American MLB banner showing a woman playing dick-baseball in heels. “KKΓ<3 SΣX,” says the other banner, which…
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