Hello, after-bedtime listeners.

I'm Margo Gray, here to share a preview of a new Odyssey original podcast, Campus Files.

Each week on Campus Files, we take listeners behind the glossy brochures to uncover the far more complicated reality of life across American colleges and universities.

From admissions to sports to Greek life, these are stories you won't hear on the campus tours.

Enjoy this preview and be sure to check out campus files wherever you get your podcasts.

So I am from Alabama and went to University of Alabama from 2010 to 2014.

This is Abby Crane. She's a third-generation University of Alabama students.

Really not a whole lot went into choosing my school.

My dad went to Alabama and my grandfather on my mom's side went to Alabama.

Abby grew up watching Alabama football, which has a nearly religious following.

Ask anyone at Alabama, and they'll tell you that football is one of the two dominant forces on campus,

the other being Greek life. Alabama actually has

the largest Greek system of any university in the country, with over 12,000 members.

To put that in perspective, Alabama has more Greek members than Notre Dame has students.

I want to say it's like 25 to 30 percent of the total student population,

which honestly is less than you would imagine, but it's just so visible. The sorority houses

are right across the street from the stadium. The fraternity houses are the first thing you see

when you drive into Tuscaloosa on campus. There are these huge antebellum-esque houses.

Like, the visibility of them kind of shows the weight we put into it.

The fraternity and sorority houses look more like mansions.

Many of them have Greek columns, grand staircases, and crystal chandeliers.

They cost millions of dollars to build and maintain.

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