fraternities

If it’s a weekly activity (as it is for many), it becomes less of an activity and more of a routine — work during the week, frat parties on the weekends.

In this unique take on a classic schoolyard game, we've taken some iconic campus and Berkeley staples and are asking our fellow students and residents to make the choice: fuck, marry or kill?

Up until this point I had been ignorant of the fact that my whiteness granted me greater social mobility and access to parties. My white privilege meant that I was never subject to any kind of racial profiling. It meant that I would never have to consider how profiling affected people of color and other marginalized students within the Greek community — until it happened to my friends.

Living in a sorority began to feel like taking one step toward adulthood and then three steps back. Looking back now, I could never imagine myself in a house where my male friends were banned from my room after 10, and I was subject to an overbearing housing contract. To me, it felt like in order to assure that no girls broke Panhellenic trust, we were simply not given any trust to begin with.

Have you ever stopped to wonder what it’s like for people who aren’t in fraternities to live on Fraternity Row? Well, wonder no more.

You’ve heard all the boring, basic dates, such as a Big C Hike or dinner at Chez Panisse, but we believe everyone should spice things up every once in a while.

At each of the colleges I attended, I learned how the gender binary is used to dole out reward and punishment, employed to justify discrimination.

While everyone's first semester is filled with unique memories, there are some events that seem to unite every UC Berkeley student. Here are some of the highlights.