Written By Nik Koulogeorge
I haven't written in a while, and while I don't know that anyone seeks an explanation, I decided to offer one. This year (2025) will be the last for [my version of] FraternityMan.com.
I started blogging about fraternities at the age of 22, and launched this website a few years later in 2014. Since then; however, my interest and passion for college fraternities and sororities has waned. I can't motivate myself to dive into topics like I once did.
First, I am older and no longer work directly with college fraternities or live where they are primarily headquartered (Indianapolis). Greek Life is not as relevant to or as present in my life as it once was. The former colleagues and friends who suggested topics, reviewed drafts of my spicier editorials, and provided evidence or inside information are no longer as accessible, and many of them have also moved on.
Second, I more or less said all that I want to say. In addition to critiques of the powers that be, I wrote a Fraternity Manifesto and many articles aimed at re-imagining and revitalizing the fraternity experience from the bottom-up. I hope you will check them out if you haven't already (links below or click "articles" at the top of the page).
Finally, I do not believe there is a genuine appetite for accountability, change, or reform - at least not in any meaningful way - among the fraternity/sorority professionals (FSL) who control the broader experience. This sounds wild, because it goes against everything fraternity professionals teach to students, but it is a lesson from my experience.
College fraternities are a multi-billion dollar market funded almost entirely by college students and their families. I believe this commodification has doomed any liklihood of self-induced reform, and I sincerely hope that this professional complex crumbles into dust. I'm just not the David to take down that Goliath (no matter how hard my ego argues otherwise).
Click the links below to check out some of my past work. Feel free to share it and contact me on X or Instagram (@fmnpjk on both) if you'd like to discuss.
General Articles about Fraternity Life and Fraternity Culture
I knew that the fraternity experience was bigger than my chapter, and creating this website shoved that reality into my face. FraternityMan.com created opportunities for me to connect with journalists, authors, members from a wide variety of fraternity organizations, and others who are committed to positive change and the de-commodification of Greek Life.
Creating this blog, having a few mini-viral articles (within FSL), getting an occasional free book, and engaging in hours-long conversations with dozens of motivated men and women were all benefits that I was never promised when joining my fraternity chapter in 2007. To me, it is further proof that fraternity membership is personal, it's individual, and it's whatever you make of it - with or without permission.
I'm an alumni board member for my home chapter and live a mile or so away from one of the chapters I helped start as a recruiter of my fraternity.
I donate to chapter-specific funds, I'm one of the regulars at our biennial convention, and I have love for the fraternity experience - I owe many of the best things in my life to it. There's a chance I publish a few articles or resources this year through my newsletter (hard deadlines tend to release creative blocks), but just a few.
Thank you to everyone who genuinely supported the existence of this blog, my development as a human and professional, and to those who work to make the fraternity experience better for students every day.
