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New Fraternity Cuisine: Kegs and Creme Brulee

Luke Kelly-Clyne — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:57:52 CST

Ken Cobb has given up locales like the Playboy Mansion for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon frat at Southern Methodist University. Part of a growing number of highly trained chefs leaving upscale restaurants, country clubs, and even the high table of Hugh Hefner to cook for the college set, Cobb has...

Third Miami U Sorority Suspended After Raging Formal

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:24:24 CDT

Miami University appears to be having a bit of a problem with its sororities: For the third time in a month, a spring formal turned truly disgusting, resulting in probation. This time it was the Zeta Tau Alphas who filled a bus with trash and vomit and harassed the driver,...

Texas Frat Boy Branded by 'Brothers'

Rob Quinn — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:47:38 CST

A Texan fraternity is being investigated after members had too many beers and treated a fraternity brother like a steer—by branding him with Greek letters. Texas Christian University student Amos Carter IV suffered second- and third-degree burns when his Kappa Sigma brothers used a red-hot coat hanger on his...

Critics Slash Sorority Row

Jane Yager — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:43:07 CDT

The scantily clad sisters of Theta Pi dish out catty quips and grisly murders in Sorority Row , a retread of '80s horror hit The House on Sorority Row . Neither the comedy nor the horror adds up to much, say critics: With its stars "looking more like whores than coeds," Sorority...

Anthrax Suspect Was Obsessed With Sorority

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:05:41 CDT

The top suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks was fixated on a sorority that has a chapter within 100 yards of the New Jersey mailbox from which the toxin-laced letters were sent, the AP reports. Federal officials say scientist Bruce Ivins had been obsessed with Kappa Kappa Gamma since his...

College Uses Facebook to Police Student Parties

Harry Kimball — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:56:59 CDT

A Seattle school is tracking student parties through Facebook and threatening students who break the rules, the Seattle Times reports. Seattle University recently scrapped a party where men were to wear flipped-up collars, and women Victoria's Secret or Abercrombie and Fitch. "You will be held responsible" for hosting a party...

Pretty Faces Make Profitable Sororities

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:51:35 CST

An Indiana sorority that elicited national outrage for kicking out 23 overweight or non-white members did so not just for "Aryan uniformity" but for the sake of the almighty dollar, writes the New Republic 's Alexandra Robbins. The DePauw University's flagging Delta Zeta chapter believed that a prettier sisterhood would...