Delta Sigma Phi is a national fraternity with 6,000+ undergraduate members at 110+ institutions and was founded by fewer than a dozen teenagers at the City College of New York on this day in 1899. Neat! At the time the … Continued
The tenacity with which students and alumni hold on to the secrecy of our fraternity and sorority rituals is admirable. Truly admirable – and mostly successful.
I often suggest, on this website and elsewhere, that fraternities and sororities are operationally bloated and that our attention often turns to how much more our governing headquarters or campus offices can do or charge or spend.
Dear person who is interested in joining a fraternity|sorority and who may have been bullied as a kid, You may hold the key to addressing some of fraternity’s (and society’s) acknowledged problems.
Instead of telling you to “stick to your values,” I’m going to tell you how to recruit people who will suck less as members of your chapter. Neat!
Since December 10, 1899, the greatest progressions of my national fraternity have come at the demand of students and through student votes.