Great ideas! Piggyback onto any of the 100s of events going on at the university at any given time. It's FREE.

Other ideas for social events:
-Grafitti Social (set up the room with black lights, serve snacks and drinks). Everyone wears a white t-shirt and everyone gets paint and markers to write on other people's t-shirts.

-Pick up Line Social (set up a fishbowl for boys and one for girls with strips of paper). As each person enters the event, they dip into the fishbowl to get their pickup line. Next walk around giving your pick up line to members of the opposite sex until you find your match. Serve refreshments and snacks. Variation-- famous couples: Romeo must find Juliet. Mac must find Cheese. W and Laura, etc...

-Viking: This was an ATO thing at my school-- the guys decorate the house for a party, and everyone makes costumes out of fabric and faux fur. Variations: Toga Party, White Trash Prom, 80's Prom, Sock Hop, Luau, etc.

- Go to a museum, concert, park, theme park, zoo, lecture, etc.


And, look at the events where you would serve alcohol. What would they be? Just cut out the alcohol.

We did a rootbeer party. We had two kegs of rootbeer. There was a rootbeer float "bar" and rootbeer pong. We watched Old School together. It was super fun.

my chapter has really strict rules about drinking too. so, thats a prob. we always run into when planning socials....not alot to do sometimes. lol

but, this week in fact we are doing a water war with one of the frats on campus. my sorority is wearing red bandanas and the guys are wearing white. as long as you are wearing it and you are outside you can be hit. we laid done rules, like "no hitting inside" and if you arent wearing your bandana you cant be hit (bc someone might need to look good for class for a presentation or something) but, we are basically going to be running around campus and the town (its a small college town) shooting each other with water guns and balloons. we also have tickets, and if we get shot we have to give one ticket to the guy. (and vice versa) each member gets 10 tickets a day. at the end of the week whoever has the most tickets (whichever organization) wins, and the losers have to be their waiters or waitresses at pizza night. haha, its gonna be fun! hope this idea helped!

Dry Social Events
 

I'm afraid there are no fun activities involving fraternities and sororities that do not involve alcohol. The absence of adult beverages ultimately results in a 6th grade dance (boys on one side, girls on the other.)

However, if you are left no other choice, use this 6th grade dance theory to your advantage. Place a net between the two groups, throw some sand under your feet, and viola~ beach volleyball.

Still not enough entertainment? Play shirts and skins!

Hope this helps,

Mitch

Dry Chapter Ideas
 

My Sorority was also a dry chapter!!! Some of the things we did for mixers and parties were.......Food Fights, golfing, movies, game nights, zoo, ect!!

Dry stuff...
 

Seriously, if you need a substance to have an enhanced or elevated mood to leave yourself uninhibited, then there is a lot about life you have to learn...

Have a College Passion Party.

Make aphrodesiacs: Chocolate, strawberries, figs, oysters, etc. Saffron noodles.

Have belly "dancers" both male and female. Men learn one way, and ladies learn another way.

The protect yourselves with Trojan or Lifestyles and the Durex Ring.

Use special incense or aromatherapy to heighten the senses...

Hayle, you could have a swing set, try on special equipment and take some stuff for a spin.

Practice safer sex... ;)

Yep.

No official event on our campus includes alcohol. I've had fun at all of them. We've had a Halloween mixer, a food fight mixer, a bowling mixer, date parties where we dress up and go out to eat at a nice restaurant, white trash mixers, etc. Like someone else said, just think about the things you do with alcohol. Then take it out.

It's fun. Yeah. But if you can't have fun and meet people without it, you either have a serious problem, or you haven't matured yet.

Im the director of chapter events for my sorority, and we keep our exchanges dry as well, which turns out great because almost everyone does out here. Either way, we've done a ton of really successful exchanges since i took the position on 2 years ago!

On campus ideas:
- Speed dating (so much fun! and a great way to meet everyone)
- Murder Mystery (Everyone gets into costume and character)
- Sushi making
- Iron chef (rent hot plates and provide random ingredients)
- Picture scavenger hunt (every group gets a camera and has to take specific pictures in order to receive their next clue)
- Mini olympics (chose a bunch of random games like pass the fruit, fear factor eating contest, beer bottle bowling and obstacle courses... one of our most successful exchanges yet!)
- salsa dancing lessons
- movie and dinner nights (we all make dinner together and watch a movie)
- casino nights (with fake money)
- Pumpkin carving
- indoor mini golf (create a golf course inside your house!)

Off campus ideas:
- comedy club (yuk yuks)
- bowling
- ice skating/broom ball
- themed events, like out here we have fright night and the stanley park ghost train during halloween! always a blast!

either way, those are just some ideas! i have a ton more up my sleeve so feel free to ask if you need any more ideas!

oh! and water balloon bocce ball! always fun! except it usually just turns into a massive water balloon fight hahaa

I like the midnight movie idea.

Somthing that my sorority does is (all in good fun of course!) we have a roast night, like on comedy central. We elect any person from our chapter (regardless of age or pin) and the fraternity we're having the exchange with does the same, and then we roast them. Nobody has been offended in past years, it's more of an honnor to be roasted :-)

We used to do an event called Phi Tie, it was kinda like a baby crush party. Each girl had a date, but she did not choose him, one of her sisters did. It was then the job of the sister who picked the date to get a tie from him and give it to the sister she picked him for. The boys did not know who their date was until they found the girl wearing their tie. And then we spent the day at the park or someplace like that. We have the beach here to, so we would do that a lot.

i know one thing that ive done before which works well if its hot out is that we had a game of soft ball but we changed alot of the rules. we used one of those wet bats with the squishy balls. we also used baby pools for the bases and we had a slip and slide from third to home. to make it a little more fun we also trade shirts and the girls get to make the shirts for the guys and vice versa. it makes it more fun to find out who made whos shirt.

You can do powderpuff football
Broom ball

Or a dance party is always fun. You can do a marathon or dance off