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I’m a high school Senior starting college apps. And I know I wanna rush. How’s hazing at schools like VT and UMD, or even smaller schools like Bucknell or Temple? Is it worse than a lax locker room?

Like 13 dudes in the past 6 months have come out and 5 of them are dating. 1 of the couples is a throuplet.

Anyway, they all just talk about glory holes and white wine and nothing else. It’s like they became new people. They used to just be kinda boring and just talk about work and sports.

Anyway the president tried to make pledges walk in the pride parade and we lost like 21 dudes. Our chapter is low key falling apart.

Instead of littles and bigs, it’s bigs and littles you know what i mean?

I go to a horizon league school in the Midwest

Got the go ahead from my risk manager and president to rent out a mechanical bull for our darty but is it worth it? Worried about the liabilities but it would be sick

Got out of the army with a green to gold scholarship. Did 2 years active duty enlisted, now I’m in rotc. Would it be worth it to rush a frat? Would it be possible to fit a frat into the rotc life?

Need some advice. Last night a brother at our party just yelled at me for like 5 minutes straight and then swung and hit me across the face just because I was standing next to our dj at the dj stand. This isn’t even the first time he’s put his hands on me for making up bullshit problems just because he gets angry when he’s drunk. All I did was stand next to the dj and he was on my ass because he built the stand so he can decide where I stand at a party??? My frat doesn’t even care about it and it’s not the first time he’s told me he wants to kill me over some joke of a problem so I’m wondering what you guys think I should do. All of this was in front of rushes and girls btw

Like how certain is that you will make the right friends in a month at the beginning of school

Hello all I’m not gonna lie I’m a a little salty (i’m using a burner account cus my main is known) so due to my school messing up my student aid I had to sit A SEMESTER out not even a full year but at the first meeting 2 weeks ago when I ask why the meeting wasn’t started ( i thought with me we had quorum) they told me that they already filed me as an alumni without me knowing or giving a reason so I didn’t count i even check on our membership database and it was changed. am I wrong for feeling kinda salty about it I’m the only blk dude in my southern chapter so theirs already been talks about what is and isn’t ok but I have never felt so much distance from my chapter as when they told me that and don’t even know what to do fr do I just put my letters down. I checked and they didn’t need yo do this since i was only gonna be gone the semester.

PS i made it extremely clear that i still wanted to be active as a collegiate brother so idk why they decided to do that

Edit: I didn’t leave my school entirely dual enrolled at the local community college cus my main collage has a program there so for all instance and purposes I have all the other student privileges but no classes to pay I did it this way because I wanted to stay collegiate I check the school system and I still have student status

Hi all. I recently transferred schools and found out that another school in my area has a chapter. Would it be possible for me to get involved again? If so, what would be the best way to reach out?

Do I join sigep at usc? they recently started a chapter here again last year so the house has like 30 or 40 members. I think there were like 6 or 7 people that rushed sigep during the fall this year. I heard sigep was p chill tho and less time commitment and no pledging process but idk if I should join or just rush during spring

I go to Michigan State University, a large Big Ten school, and I’m considering rushing this semester. Greek life here seems bigger with sororities than fraternities, and it feels like we only have around four fraternities that are considered really popular.

For those who joined a fraternity, how did it benefit you? Did it help socially, with meeting women, networking, career opportunities, or finding a genuine friend group?

Also, how many fraternities should I visit in one day and throughout rush overall? Should I explore as many as possible or focus on three or four?

I’m a transfer student mainly looking to build a real social circle and become more involved on campus. I’d appreciate any advice or things you wish you knew before rushing.

Ps I had a interview with one frat in the summer and reached out to a few others already

It’s frustrating how people say that minorities who feel excluded should just assimilate more, when sometimes you genuinely try to do exactly that and people still won’t give you a chance. I’m a brown dude who’s competed in sports, assumes the best in people, and genuinely tries to get to know everyone. If a frat doesn’t vibe with me during rush, I’m completely chill with that—I’m not expecting everyone to like me. But it’s frustrating when some white brothers won’t even give you the time of day, while the frats that are actually welcoming and make an effort to get to know you tend to be the most diverse. I really like that diversity, but I also want to feel like I can assimilate and be part of a group without race being a barrier. I mean at the end of the day I j wanna have the opportunity to make friends and connections w anyone I c.

A couple years ago I feel like at almost every school phi delt was one of the top frats or at least upper mid. I don’t hear much about them anymore though.

I’m gonna post this to both frat and architecture just to get two differnt perspectives but I wanted to post here mostly due to my concerns and the reasons of why I’m thinking about rushing. Rush starts next week and I’m an architecture student at a BARCH accredited school. I’d say I’m a pretty good student my projects from last year and this year both got picked as one of the better projects of the studios, I do and understand my work but I also work a lot. That would be a problem. The fraternity I’m trying to rush would be sigma chi, their pledge process isn’t the longest about five weeks and the material seems not too bad. My concern is being able to rush pledge and be in a fraternity while being in such a Time consuming major such as architecture. I want to join because it would be a place to let go from studio which kind of restricts me from really having an amazing social life so one of the pros would be if have one built in. A lot of the guys in the fraternity are mechanical engineers or engineers in general. Yes there are a lot of business majors but I was hoping with the lower count of guys in the fraternity and a lot of them being engineers they’d have some empathy for my work loads. I’ve gone to their parties as a PNM both last spring and this fall so I just wanted to get the perspectives of both sides also how would the networking help after graduation in terms of Sigma Chi s alumni network for architecture. Any responses would be great thanks!

How do u guys at big greek life schools get away with shit like pledgetok and suits? Our campus has cracked down like crazy in the last few years and you would be castrated for both of those things now. So like are they just turning a blind eye or what?

I want to rush Kappa Alpha Psi at Fayettville State University or ECU, But I am a white passing mixed male. (moms white, dads mixed) Would this be a problem trying to get a bid? Does it affect the chances of me joining? Thank you

Sigma Chi
Sigma Chi new members were required by other members and officers to particpate in "House Hours." This refers to the obligation to clean the Sigma Chi house. New members were split into groups and one group was required to clean the common areas of the house at least once per week. A new member interviewed stated they spent at least one hour cleaning once a week.
Chapter did not face consequences.

Phi Delta Theta
New members of Phi Delta Theta performed choreographed dances in front of a classroom audience as a new member initiation in Fall of 2023.
Chapter was placed on Social and New Member Probation.

Alpha Tau Omega
New members of Alpha Tau Omega have been identified as having participated in videos posted online giving "weather reports" during the Fall 2023 pledge period. Specifically, a new member being expected to complete a "weather report" and having flour or a similar product dumped on his head shirtless while being recorded.
Chapter was placed on Social and New Member Probation.

Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Kappa Psi new members have been identified as having been subjected to the practice of "pledge plank", carrying a plank of wood for the sake of embarrassment or additional mental manipulation.
Chapter had to attend an anti-hazing workshop.

Chi Alpha World Fellowship
...New members of Chi Alpha World Fellowship were identified in being subjected to participate in forced degrading actions and physcial exploitation. Specifically, new members were subjected to embarassing and/or harmful activities.
Consequences: Too fucking long to list out it's like 4 different things.

Omega Delta Phi
New members of Omega Delta Phi were identified in being subjected to participate in late night meetings with no notice. Specifically, members were expected to arrive for new member meetings on-call without previous notice.
Chapter was placed on Organizational Probation for a year.

FORME
...members were made to yell "penis" in public.
123 members were found responsible for hazing.

Beta Upsilon Chi
In collaboration with Chi Omega, a Chi Omega member requested the participation from the current Brothers Under Christ pledge class to Serenade the incoming Littles for Chi Omega. The boys were told to wear Greek Formal and sing outside of an assembly to the girls as they came out.
Chapter had to attend anti-hazing workshop.

G-2
Students were caused to gather in a Corps dorm room despite Corps COVID-19 regulations and were then caused to engage in unauthorized physical exercise.
One person had to attend anti-hazing workshop.

Source: https://studentcommunitystandards.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/List-of-Orgs-Found-Responsible-for-Hazing-2025-2026-1.pdf

first time doing an addy bc a close friend had some prescribed to him. was ansy at first, so i broke the thirty and took half. after about an hr, i was feeling it a bit so decided to take the other half. Now 30 minutes into the second half and feeling very energized and talkative. 9/10 experience ✅

If you’re at a crazy frat party, and everyone’s doing it, you have the autonomy to say no. You don’t have to engage in dangerous behavior. If you feel pressured to participate, a school with a crazy Greek-life culture isn’t the right fit for you.

literally all of them at my school have events at the same time... I have narrowed a list of 2-3 and been to one event but they all have events during the same 2 hours and same days. plus really far from each other so I can’t spend like an hour at one then go to another. what should I do? there’s only like 6 events total per frat

school is purdue

So I already started a recycling program for our cans and scrap metal, it is pulling in about $500/month, and so it is paying for itself. Basically pays our own social fund, as brotherhood + parties with sororities give us enough scrap metal.

I want to expand it to other things, though… I didn’t start the program for finances, I did it because I want to be more environmentally conscious… it’s just that this was aligned with house finances.

We aren’t a traditional frat, we are an ex-WWII rationing/home economics lab, so it’s moreso a cheap alternative to Greek life, and we don’t have the cash to burn.

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Has anyone else set up a recycling program? I go to Purdue, and I’ve struggled with figuring out how to get plastic & paper/cardboard recycling at the (essentially commercial) scale of a 60 person house.