Before anything else, The Row starts here.

At the University of Toronto, a campus with over 90,000 students, a reputation for rigor, and a long-standing myth that everyone is too busy to talk to each other. "UofTears," as it's affectionately called. Independent, ambitious, slightly antisocial. That's the narrative, anyway.

But like most things here, that version is incomplete.

Because tucked into the edges of campus life is one of the largest Greek life communities in Canada. Not always loud about it, not always obvious, but very much there. A parallel social world that runs alongside lectures, libraries, and deadlines. You just have to know where to look.

We're not here to tell you what to think about it. We're just here to show you what's already happening. Who's part of it, how it feels, and what it looks like from the inside.

So we're starting with a preview.

Want a sneak peek?

The Annex was built for a certain kind of exclusivity. Quiet streets, old trees, houses that used to belong to families like the Eatons. That part hasn't entirely changed.

What has changed is who's inside.

Behind the carefully maintained facades notably on streets like Madison and St. George, the letters are there if you know where to look. Subtle, sometimes deliberately so. Hundreds of students have passed through these halls before you, leaving behind a steady rotation of stories, gossip, late nights, and whatever else didn't quite make it out the front door.

It's still private. Just differently so.

We're here to make it slightly less opaque. To document what actually goes on, and more importantly, who it's happening to. The people you've heard about, the ones you think you know, and the ones you probably should.

Consider this your way in.

Who even are you?

And who do you know here?

If you're feeling generous… name a brother.