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Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen

Hamilton Bloom April 21, 2015

College is supposed to be the time in our lives where we seek to challenge the status quo. We, as college students, are given the responsibility to find issues that we are passionate about and look to...

Oklahoma's SAE provides Alabama lesson on empathy

Patrick Crowley March 11, 2015

Well, I never thought some other university’s greek system would manage to make national headlines for racial issues the same way the University did in Fall 2013. But The University of Oklahoma’s SAE...

Campus divisions hurt unification cause

Mary Catherine Connors February 11, 2015

Scott Stern’s piece in the Feb. 2 edition of the “Yale Daily News” was entitled “The New Yale Man.” It was strikingly honest and charged and it cast an interesting perspective on the stereotypical...

Sorority letters should be shields against sexual assault, not targets

Leigh Terry January 6, 2015

According to a 2013 study done at Oklahoma State University, sorority women are 74 percent more likely to experience rape than non-Greek women. Some academicians have suggested this is due to their higher...

Philanthropy Fundamentals: Greek members contribute to charities

Philanthropy Fundamentals: Greek members contribute to charities

Katie Shepherd October 21, 2014

University of Alabama sororities have raised over $460,000 for various national and local charities in the past year, said Hannah McBrayer, president of UA Panhellenic Association. “This is due in part...

Prioritizing size creates fallout

Leigh Terry September 9, 2014

My first Bid Day as a new member of my sorority was filled with excitement. I jumped out of bed knowing new sisters awaited me. Over the course of my freshman year, I eagerly learned their names and the...

Renovation on sorority row continues with 2 new houses

Renovation on sorority row continues with 2 new houses

Emily Williams August 17, 2014

The first group of new Panhellenic sorority members to run out of Bryant-Denny Stadium on Bid Day was a crowd of Alpha Phis. They had the farthest to run of all the new members that day, so they got a...

Greek system must move toward integration

Austin Gaddis February 2, 2012

In the past decade, there has been increased pressure on our greek system to adapt to the growth and expansion of the university by finally integrating fraternities and sororities. For too long, this...

Author Paul Rogat Loeb discusses greek segregation

Author Paul Rogat Loeb discusses greek segregation

Daniel Roth October 3, 2011

  Read the full story, with response from UA Vice President for Student Affairs Mark Nelson, here.

Visiting author discusses greek segregation at UA

Visiting author discusses greek segregation at UA

Amanda Sams October 3, 2011

Watch a video interview with Paul Rogat Loeb here. Paul Loeb, a California native and noted national author of “Soul of a Citizen” and other books, applied former South African President Nelson Mandela’s...

Interfraternity Council leaders take charge

Stephen N. Dethrage February 10, 2011

This year's Interfraternity Council plans to implement major changes in the greek system, IFC President Dakota Peterson said. The IFC is one of four major bodies that govern the nearly 30 fraternities...