Fraternity Foodie

Check out our latest podcast interviews (and food suggestions) from all over North America!

Dr. Louis Profeta: Should college campuses open up for students this fall? Featured

Welcome to episode # 62 of Fraternity Foodie, as we speak with Dr. Louis Profeta about his experiences in treating COVID-19 patients and his outlook for the future in terms of this virus. Dr. Profeta is a nationally recognized, award-winning writer, TED Talk speaker, and Emergency Physician at St. Vincent Hospital of Indianapolis, a level 1 trauma center. He has cared for more than 60,000 patients. He is the best-selling author of the critically acclaimed book The Patient in Room Nine Says He’s God. He is a dynamic and sought-after public speaker and frequent guest on TV and radio. His essays entitled A Sunday Talk on Sex, Drugs, Drinking and Dying and A Very Dangerous Place for a Child is College may be the most read and shared essays in history on the topic of drugs, sexual assault, and alcohol abuse on college campuses, having been read by millions. His 2018 essay I’ll Look at Your Facebook Profile Before I Tell Your Mother You’re Dead has become one of the most read articles in the world on social media. Most recently, he was again named LinkedIn Top Voice in Health Care, and is a speaker on college campuses for Greek....

Dr. Pietro Sasso: How can we design a new member experience for our members’ holistic development? Featured

Check out episode # 61 of Fraternity Foodie as we interview Dr. Pietro Sasso, educator and critical scholar! We talk about his recently released books “Foundations, Research, and Assessment of Fraternities and Sororities” and “Supporting Fraternities and Sororities in the Contemporary Era”. We ask why he chose Christopher Newport for his undergraduate experience, and what was attractive about Tau Delta Phi Fraternity. We discuss his dissertation at Old Dominion called “An Examination of Alcohol Expectations and Social Desirability in Fraternity Members on American College Campuses”, what makes SIUE special, alcohol consumption being impacted by peer influence, how higher ed and fraternities/sororities can assure the public that they are living up to their ideals, how to design a new member experience that adds to our members’ holistic development, hazing liability, chapter visits versus video conferencing support, how different fraternities/sororities can differentiate themselves, and his favorite eating spots in St. Louis. Enjoy! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqzEXbKnUUQ

Jamie Devin Wilson: How can we empower students to speak up, act, and be a change-maker? Featured

Welcome to episode # 60 of Fraternity Foodie! Jamie Devin Wilson is on a mission to end sexual violence, educate others active bystander intervention, and uplift the fraternity and sorority life experience. She cares deeply for the development and growth of not just college students but young professionals in the field of higher education. She is a wife, sister, sorority woman, survivor of sexual violence, and student affairs professional in higher education as the Coordinator for Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University of New Hampshire – with some absolutely incredible students. We find out why she chose the University of Rhode Island for her undergraduate experience, what she learned by joining Phi Sigma Sigma sorority, what it was like working for her sorority headquarters, how her experience at Northeastern helped her as a campus professional, what makes the University of New Hampshire special, how to develop new member education programs that allow the students to come to their own conclusions about hazing not being tolerated, how to empower students to stand up and take action when they see violence, the different types of resources available for victims of sexual violence, how fraternities and sororities should be recruiting and retaining....

Making Hazing History with Mike & Hank: Unsolved Mystery Hazing Deaths Featured

Welcome to our fifth special episode of Making Hazing History with Mike and Hank! Our co-host today is Hank Nuwer, the Author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing and The Hazing Reader, and retiring longtime Alpha Lambda Delta chapter adviser at Franklin College. Today we will explore three quite controversial, strange, and unsolved mystery hazing deaths – two on college campuses, and one at a high school. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjgCiN-QhHM