some themes of mixers ive been to or heard about:
White Trash Bash
Animal House
Dirty Doctors and Naughty Nurses
War Party -dress in camo
Bubble Trouble - lots of bubbles
High School Hotties and Heros
Cowboys & Indians
Whiskey River
Margaritaville

Screw your sister-you find out who your sisters like and invite them

Hooked on you-charter a fishing boat and invite a fraternity/sorority to go along. great way to guys to talk to the girls while teaching them to fish

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Another mixer we just had with Delta Sig- boots and boxers.

you wear boots, boxers..and the girls wear their letter shirts.

it was alot of fun.:D

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im new to this website. i am a sigma chi from TX and we just had a homeless ball where everyone dresses up like their homeless, it was awesome.

Red Light-Green Light Swap--
The guys and gals who are single wear green
The guys and gals who do not know their status wear yellow
The guys and gals who are taken wear red

Secs & Execs (Secretaries and Executives)

Hippie Swap

The Wedding Swap (new members dress up and get married to the pledges of the fraternity)

New Year's Eve Swap (have it no where near New Year's, it makes it more interesting)

Varsity Swap

Halloween Swap

Graffiti Swap (wear white shirts and bring markers and write on each other)

Sober Skating Social--rent out a skating place and skate all night and have fun, but everyone has to stay sober :)

We've had a lot of great mixers..
--With the Pikes we had Destination Unknown where only the social chairs know where we're going and we all get on chartered busses and they take us somewhere (usually to a bar or a club)
--With the Sigma Chi's we had White Trash Bash
--With the KA's we had $5 Formal
--Also one year with the KA's we had "Back Where I Come From" which you wear your high school stuff...letter jackets, cheerleader uniforms, etc
--With the Lambda Chi's we had "Great Outdoors" in which they took us to a field and we had a big bon fire and they made punch
--Last semester with the Pikes we had "Jammies and Jello" where we dressed up in our pajamas and they made jello shots
--With the AGR's we had "Gamoflauge" where we wore camo. Also we had "Dixieland Delight" with them.

Good times!

Golf Pros and Tennis Hoes- self-explanitory
Graffiti Mixer
Graffiti Mixer w/ Blacklight
Mardi Graus- alot of beads
Hawaaiin Luao- bikinis and shorts
Toga Party-togas
Miss America- glamour dresses
Famous Couples- Throughout the media and history
70's- clothes from this era (characters, stars and singers)
80's- clothes from this era
Hoe Down- barnyard attire
Around the World- different drinks and themes in each room
Anything for a dollar- Guys with fake money give it away to girls for whatever they are willing to do for a dollar, prices at the end.
Hollywood Hotties and Hunks- self-explanitory
White Trash-
Salvation Army mixer- costumes cheaper than $5
Anything BUT clothing- make your costume with anything but fabric (tape, plants, etc)

ASF -- Hanzo

Campus Crawl...dress like your favorite team (works well for schools without huge athletics or in a competitive area ie. UGA vs. Georgia Tech)

Finders Keepers....the fraternity and sorority members give the others ideas for things to dress up as and you draw out of a hat to see what you get....this was so much fun! We had guys dressed up as Tinkerbell, a Q-Tip, Batman, Cowboys, etc, and girls dressed up as hobos, Britney Spears (that was me! lol), Pippi Longstocking, Pregnant Teenager, etc.

Football players and cheerleaders

Those themes sound great!
here is what we have done recently:
Margerittaville - simple
dirty doctors and naughty nurses
Fright Nite - halloween - i went as marge simpson - it was funny
toga
dazed and confused - 70's really
hollywood nights
cowboys and indians
revenge of the nerds
anything goes but clothes - this ones funny and you will get to see an eye full
Biling Bling Fling - the most fun, a member date were you 'blinged' yourself up. we had snoop on the back of the t-shirts - it was awesome.

Big shout out to my Sigma Kappa girls and the pike boys = Love Ya!

Ok, so these are all great themes, but what about activities for the socials? All that is being listed are themes for parties where you just go drink and hang out. And from my understanding, mixers/socials _HAVE_ to be dry per Risk Management and FIPG. So does anyone want to share any activities that could be used for socials/mixers?

The Doner Party (halloween)- (ie the people who did cannoblism in the the mountains)---- Everyone dresses up like death... blood and gory and then have like finger and eyeball food you see at Halloween...

Fantasy Party- Everyone dresses up as or in their sexual fantasy and hey, some might come true ;)

TKE Long Beach
 

Some of our mixers had themes fromn freaks and geeks, sin city, ghetto glam, lifestyles of the rich and the famous, G.I. Boot Camp, Color me bad, and puck rock

Just FYI about party and mixer themes, here's what the report of the consultant who was hired to evaluate Greek life at California State - Chico said:

" . . . social events that have themes such as 'Dirty Doctors and Naughty Nurses.' How doew that event show the public their [fraternities' / sororities'] core values? This is the worst kind of PR you can have . . . ."

I'm not personally against fun, but on many campuses it wouldn't hurt to at least consider the PR aspect of a party theme.