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The Bro of Frat Street

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Shocking college students across the country, Bloomberg.com reports that men from fraternities, specifically men from Penn's fraternities, more specifically men from Penn's Jewish fraternities, even more specifically men from APES, use their frat connections to help score the OCR jackpot of a Wall Street job. According to the article, some recruiters strive to create just adorable "little fraternities on Wall Street," evoking promises of occasionally forced handle passes, beer pong, and maybe, just maybe, cheap vodka disguised in expensive bottles. We hope you succeed Sigma Chi.

The brother/frat-house bond lasts long into the workforce, with Wall Street titans trying to help their little bros with their money troubles and accusations of serious hazing violations.

Anecdotes of undercover handshakes and surprise secret mottoes (just got the chills), may make some GDIs wish they had spent a little less time studying and a little more time working on their fist bump. All of this may make you wonder how women fit into the mix, with the article sadly revealing that even a sister with Kappa Kappa Gamma on her resume might have a hard time fitting in with the boys club.

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