In our last episode of back to school month, Tess takes us through the origins of Greek life and how sororities came to be. We go all the way back to the 1800s and discuss where women fit into higher education and the fear that egnitted in our country. Then, we go through the turn of the century, honoring Black women in higher education, and finally into the 60s/70s to modern day Greek life and dissect and critique the system, going over the many problematic traditions such as hazing and the double standard of fraternity brothers vs sorority sisters. Of many stories along the way of Tess's own experience as a Delta Zeta over ten years ago. Spoiler: she got in trouble for talking a lot. Enjoy this episode and let's pretend we are doing a secret hand shake right now.

TW, SA: We cannot dive into the history of Greek life without talking about sexual assault on campus.

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