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What is Greek Life?

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What is Greek Life?

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Definition: Sororities and fraternities are an integral part of non-academic life on many university campuses. Since the founding of Phi Beta Kappa, the first fraternity, at William & Mary College in 1776, these student clubs or social communities have been named after letters of the Greek alphabet - and the system of fraternities and sororities as a whole has been dubbed, simply, Greek life.

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