Video: Mike Posner's Six Fraternity and Sorority Types

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With the fall semester fast approaching, breakthrough summer star and recent Duke University graduate Mike Posner stopped by the Rolling Stone studios to provide our campus-bound readers with a tutorial on the three main fraternity and three main sorority archetypes. From the intramural flag-football captain to "Tiffany the Tease," from the shady drug dealer to the Walk of Shame record breaker, Posner breaks down what you can expect if you plan on pledging this fall.

For more Rolling Stone coverage of Posner, whose debut album 31 Minutes to Takeoff was released this week, check out "On the Road with the Warped Tour's Breakout Star" and "From Duke U to Bonnaroo: Meet Pop Singer Mike Posner".

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“Everyday People”

Sly and the Family Stone | 1968

"Everyday People" managed to trailblaze in two different ways -- it was one of the first pop hits to deal with the subject of racial harmony, and it utilized Larry Graham's "slap" technique on the bass guitar, which would soon be copied by countless other bassists. Graham once said about his pulsating style, "I'd never done that before … that's where the freedom of creativity came in for the band, that we'd be allowed to do that." In 1978, the song's line "Different strokes for different folks" would be borrowed for the title of the hit television show Diff'rent Strokes.

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