Over the weekend, the administration of Brigham Young University came out with a long awaited announcement. After much deliberation and prayer, President Kevin J. Worthen and his advisors have decided to allow BYU students to participate in Greek life starting Fall 2021, with the hopes that these fraternities and sororities will “increase our sense of brotherhood and sisterhood before God”.

Straying from traditional Greek centered organizations found at other universities, BYU frats and sororities will cross the Mediterranean Sea and embrace a more righteous house system, based on the 12 tribes of Israel recorded in the Old Testament.

Fraternity chapters will include Sigma Phi Issachar, Delta Dan Delta, Alpha Pi Asher, Lamda Levi Omega, and Theta Simeon Psi. The four sorority chapters will include Chi Zeta Zilpah, Kappa Leah Gamma, Alpha Beta Bilhah, Psi Rho Rachel. Within each house, students are expected to refer to each other as brother and sister, like at church.

Rush is scheduled to start two weeks before the fall semester begins. While different houses have different standards of acceptance as set by the house leadership, BYU is requiring the across-the-board minimum acceptance criteria that each student must have at least a 2.5 GPA, be able to recite all 13 articles of faith, and swear by blood that they have never seen nor will ever see a PG-13 movie.

While many students are ecstatic about this new development on campus, many are wary about rushing this fall. Some suspect that though the University has good intentions, secret combinations are bound to arise.

“I heard about this happening at BYU Hawaii last semester. The students in house leadership made Kappa Leah Gamma seem like a really wholesome organization, but then once everyone was in they got hazed into eating a pint of coffee ice cream and listening to Jay Z,” says Taysom Holt, a transfer student from BYU-Hawaii.

Will BYU Greek Life become all that Kevin wants it to be? Or will the carnal man corrupt yet another good organization? Perhaps only time will tell.