After seven days and 1,093 votes, the frat list for OTR Readers has been formed. For those of you who don’t agree and think this list sucks, well, I don’t really give a sh*t. Fact is, if you and your fellow housemates read and/or massively poll this site, then you deserve to be on th

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Do they still have it?

 

Well now that I'm back to my old tricks, I figured I'd kick things off with a little Greek Life which we all love to hate, or hate to love, or just really, really hate (or love). But since I'm not on the ground anymore, I need you guys to fill me in. Welcome Week is when all t

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In "The Weekly" on Thursday, there was a huge article about a hazing pseudo-scandal in Lambda Phi Epsilon, one of Northwestern's historically Asian frats. And I mean huge - a couple pages, at least - detailing pretty heinous hazing practices. So heinous that the Daily online disabl... MORE »

Yesterday's Modern Love column in the New York Times contained a particularly horrifying anecdote of Greek life:

"Ledge parties, for those of you who didn’t attend party-school universities, featured fraternity boys luring their unsuspecting companions to a lair of choice, where they engineered some semblance... MORE »

According to Kappa Alpha Order member Daniel Alexander, the word 'frat' is "rife with derogatory sentiments and slanderous undertones." Is this common abbreviation really that offensive?

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In a report released by the Daily Collegian, the director of Greek life at Penn State has prohibited all freshmen from attending any frat social events during their summer session. This is an attempt to fulfill their new policy where “students would be asked to partake in non-drinking

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So I never really caught on to the Juicy Campus thing, mostly because people don't care enough about my social life to post about it online, so I was not fortunate enough to know what went on on the glorious website that is Juicy Campus.

 

Today I took a couple minutes to learn more about the

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Our Illinois contributor teaches you how to land a fine sorority lady. It takes a little more effort than you might imagine.

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Bruins party it up at raid. Yay for the 80s

Party nights at Dartmouth (M, W, F, & Sat) are always followed by a string of lost-jacket Blitzes. They're usually of the same sort:

"Sorry! I know everyone must hate this, but last night my friends and I started out partying at SAE, then went to TriKap, ChiGam, SigEp, BG, PsiU, and then back to SigEp. Somewhere betwe... MORE »