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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

The Phi Kappa Psi and Delta Gamma buildings on campus.

Abolish or adapt?: Abolish NU Greek Life member discusses IFC, transparency, and reform

February 15, 2021

The advent of the Abolish NU Greek Life movement last summer sparked ongoing discussions of abolishing or reforming Greek life at Northwestern. The Daily spoke to a member of the Abolish Greek Life movement...

Hobart House. Some students have found a community of women in Hobart House instead of joining a sorority.

Students say sororities do not provide female empowering spaces, citing exclusive practices

February 8, 2021

Weinberg junior Sheridan Bernard joined Chi Omega her freshman year to find a community of women on campus. In response to the Abolish Greek Life movement, she and many others deactivated from their sororities...

The Pi Kappa Alpha building in Northwestern’s fraternity quad. Many students feel torn over joining Greek life during the Abolish Greek Life movement.

Freshmen debate joining Greek life during the ongoing Abolish Greek Life movement

January 29, 2021

On top of challenges with virtual recruitment due the COVID-19 pandemic, students considering joining sororities and fraternities face a second layer of concerns: the Abolish Northwestern Greek Life movement. In...

Northwestern’s sorority quad. Although the Panhellenic Association cancelled formal sorority recruitment, some chapters are individually recruiting members in the fall.

Northwestern fraternities, sororities begin recruitment amid ongoing Abolish Greek Life movement

January 20, 2021

After months of contending with the Abolish Greek Life movement, many Northwestern fraternities and sororities plan to continue with recruitment this winter.  Although NU’s Panhellenic Association...

Northwestern’s sorority quad. A recent IPR study reported that women in sororities experience a conflict between their feminist values and the realities of the Greek system.

IPR finds ideals of sorority women in contradiction with Greek life experience

November 9, 2020

A new study by Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research found while women in sororities value ideals of feminism and equality, their experiences in Greek life conflict with those ideals. The study...

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