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

The Daily Northwestern


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...

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.

Northwestern’s Panhellenic Association delegates vote to cancel formal sorority recruitment

October 14, 2020

Delegates from Northwestern’s 11 Panhellenic Association chapters voted to cancel a formal PHA-sponsored recruitment this academic year. According to Weinberg senior Jessica Tartakovsky, PHA’s VP...

Northwestern’s sorority quad.

Augustine: Sorority alcohol policies affect safety and autonomy

April 29, 2019

Fraternity houses on college campuses host a barrage of underage drinking events each weekend. Dark, dingy basements of fraternity houses are the setting for copious amounts of alcohol being served by...

(Colin Boyle/Daily Senior Staffer) Adam Davies, a Weinberg freshman, stands in Northwestern’s sorority quad. Davies, who identifies as transgender female-to-male decided to join Northwestern Panhellenic Association’s winter recruitment, partly because he wanted to set an example for deconstructing the gender binary in Greek life.

As institutions face a blurring gender binary, a transgender student tests the bounds of Northwestern sorority life

January 11, 2017

On Tuesday night, hundreds of Northwestern women were invited to join a sorority. For five days, they had devoted themselves to a long, intricate and sometimes below-freezing recruitment process hoping...

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