Who Owns The Fraternity Experience?
As a part of your new member experience, next executive board meeting, or next retreat, take some time to look through your fraternity or sorority’s governing documents and take note of the chain of command.
Partnership and Contract Transparency are Needed in Fraternities
What good does it do to tell the members of a chapter that they are 1.3% less likely to binge drink – based on self-reported data – than their peers? It might make the members of the chapter feel superior, … Continued
How Racial & Religious Desegregation Triggered “Big Fraternity”
It’s been almost nine years since I started blogging about the structure and politics of Fraternity/Sorority Life. Many things have changed in the years since I launched “BondFraternal.org” in 2011. I think I am better at naming websites, for example. … Continued
Rebuttal: Fraternities & Gangs Have Plenty In Common
I remember watching a television series detailing the rise and fall (or sustainability) of gangs throughout American history. After learning more about gangs I came to a realization: “Gangs are fraternities.” An article by Ibram Kendi for The Atlantic made … Continued
IFC members pay for the NIC. They deserve a vote | Read or Listen
Update: Tau Kappa Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha & Phi Delta Theta have instructed chapter officers to pay only the $30 required of NIC-member fraternities. Read TKE’s release (which expresses support of 3 other non-NIC fraternities representing 950 chapters) … Continued
Kappa Sigma Is The Real”New Normal” Fraternity
In 2018 Kappa Sigma cemented their position as the bad boys among Greek Life professionals (henceforth “FSL”) with the Champion Quest 2018 video. Fraternity thought leaders lambasted the organization on social media. Why would a fraternity create a video which … Continued