everything is over S01E03: The F Word
In episode three of everything is over, Hanna and Emily have an open discussion about fraternities and greek life as a whole at Cal.
Dress to impress
A Greek Tragedy
If I decide to show no skin, or if I want to wear the smallest skimpiest dress in the world, that is my decision. A community full of young women shouldn’t treat each other differently depending on their outfit choices. A sorority should be a space in which women are uplifted through sisterhood, and by regulating their dress code and enforcing the concept that a woman’s worth is correlated to her modesty, a sorority is failing to do so.
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Stop using the point system to force participation
A Greek Tragedy
My workload that semester had been more than overwhelming, and I was running tight on money, so attending every Greek event wasn’t realistic. Additionally, I hadn’t been excused for missing our sorority’s weekly meeting because I had missed them to study, which didn’t count as an acceptable excuse.
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The wurst of the Wurst: Characters you’ll see at Wurster library
Wurster has the reputation as the “Greek Life library” due to its close proximity to Piedmont Ave, but it’s much more than that. It’s the place where you unwillingly see someone you hooked up with and blink back tears when you can’t de-bug your code.
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Checking my privilege
A Greek Tragedy
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.
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The food chain
Being in Greek life should be an opportunity to surround yourself with people you connect with — a way to spend time outside of school doing things you enjoy. I chose my sorority because I loved the company of so many women in the house, and I still do. But spending my weekends in houses full of strangers, waiting for the party to end made being in Greek life feel more like a job I paid to participate in than the inclusive community I had hoped for.
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UC Berkeley junior Jasmine Sheena announces independent candidacy for ASUC senate
Campus junior Jasmine Sheena announced her independent senate candidacy for the 2019 ASUC elections.
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New house rules
A Greek Tragedy
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.
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From the depths of r/berkeley: Is it possible to balance a mechanical engineering degree with frat life?
What about the bane of every UC Berkeley student’s existence, an engineering major? An eager pre-frosh posed a pressing question to the r/berkeley community: Is it possible to balance a Mechanical Engineering degree with frat life?
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A sorority girl in the making
A Greek Tragedy
Weeks before I left for California, I spent my afternoon researching UC Berkeley and what clubs and societies there were to get involved in. Pictures of sorority houses and sisterhood events flooded my webpage, and it seemed to me like sororities were so essential to the American college experience.
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