Our Greek Week is Intense to say the least. Everyone is SUPER competitive. No one is nice to each other, everyone ends up being upset and fighting. It's really not a positive week at all. I wish our greek week was like yalls, with fun games. This is how ours is.

Yesterday- Volleyball then Greek God/Goddess & Greek Sing & Step Team (most competitive of them all)
Today- Flag football
Tomorrow- Tug (which isn't your normal tug, it can go on for hours people down in divets made pulling, tug is also a super big deal) & Trivia
Monday- Can Serve A Thon & Basketball
Tuesday- Softball
Wed- Field Day
Thurs- Soccer
:rolleyes:

Wow, that kind of defeats the purpose of having Greek Week. Do your organizations get split up into teams, or is it a free-for-all?

No every sport/game/event is sorority on sorority and fraternity on fraternity. Sports (football,basketball..etc.) are played in a double elimination format. We are paired up with fraternities for field-day and greek sing though. Can-Serve-A-Thon we used to do alone but this year we were requested to ask a non-greek club to help us with. At the end of the week we have greek awards. Which sucks if you happen to not be in a athletic glo. Everytime a sorority wins something (individual award or collective) they stand up and do a cheer like ADPi does "I love my A-A-D-D-PI! I love em'" Phi Mu does something that is so fast you can't understand ZTA does Who Wears the Crown...and so on. Everyone sits and watches and then things proceed. Its crazy!

Wow. You can't really have Greek unity with a format like that. My school split up the organizations into 4 groups (we have about 32 organizations, so 8 GLOs per group). The competition is between the 4 groups rather than the 32. It gives students an opportunity to interact with groups they may not have known about.

You're completly right. Mind you we have 5 sororities and 5 fraternities (sororities run about 150 strong) (fraternities run around 30-50) It's crazy, and at the end of greek week it seems that people are more angry than happy with it. Unless you happen to win the whole she-bang, and in that case during recruitment (guys/girls) these groups spend half their time talking about how they won greek week. This year someone made a t-shirt that had all the glos on it and it said "Give Peace A Chance". I'm suprised that it isn't like this every school, I'm really embarrassed that ours is like this when everyone elses is about greek unity. People start practicing at our school as soon as rush is over in Aug. It's insane.

Is it only NPC and NIC that participate? Or are other organizations included in the 10?

NPHC is invited to attend and there are 5 of them (so grand total 15). They only have around 5-6 member each however, they normally choose not to participate because they don't have enough members to compete in the athletics on in greek sing and step team. They haven't shown up for either of those in years though.

We have Penny Wars every Greek Week. It's my favorite part of Greek Week. Each organization stands outside our student commons and collects pennies from students. Pennies are worth a point. But if someone puts any silver change or dollar bills then they are worth negative points. (A dime is worth -10.) We do it for the entire week, and in the end whichever organization wins gets all the money to donate to their philanthropy of choice. It's so much fun!

We do Flag Football, volleyball, basketball, obstacle course, dodgeball, box car, tug-o-war, Lip Sync, and to wrap it up award banquet

Turns out we have a Greek Week

I really hate Greek Weeks that are all about "Greek Unity" and that kind of bullshit.

It's supposed to be competitive and for bragging rights. Competition doesn't bring people together- get over it.

this year our house won greek week!!!