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I think dodgeball is a really really bad idea for greek week. I'm concerned.

We're having soccer, tug o war, dodgeball (Grr), volleyball (for the girls) and basketball (for the guys). Then there's Harmony Night and then Lip Sync. New this year is a uniform contest, which I'm not crazy about because it gives the chapters with more members a leg up (they have more cash).

The Orion even ran an article about your Greek Week -
Greek week kicks off

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Originally posted by AlphaPhiBubbles
I'm actually supposed to be getting ready for our 2nd day of greek week right now. Here are this year's events for Chico State:

Saturday: Greek All-star softball game and home-run derby
Sunday: Community Challenge (i guess it would be like greek games, except the entire chico community is involved and LOTS of money is raised for this event for the Boys and Girls club)
Monday + Tuesday: blood drive
Wednesday: Social Action Day, donate all clothes and cans to the Jesus Center (local philanthropy...not as religiously affiliated as it sounds)
Thursday: Fun without alchohol fair - i'm actually in charge of this day for my sorority, but about 2-3,000 kids from 5 yrs-10yrs come and every group sets up their own themed booth with activities and prizes for the kids, all relating to saying no to alcohol and drugs. In past years, this was probably the only event besides blood drive people actually didn't drink for.
Friday: Poker tournament
Saturday: Bed cart races
Sunday: Talent show

we have a really full greek week! But its fun. I'm actually really glad that we're being allowed to do it again this year in light of recent events :)

Well I guess it's probably too late to post this now, but oh well....

I was Greek Week Chair this year, so if anyone wants to know about the events we had and whatnot, feel free to PM or e-mail me.

It's mostly sports and each house is paired up with another. Some of the smaller houses are paired up with more than one other house to make the teams more even. There are some events which are individual events (such as the lip sync competition and Mr./Miss Greek Week) but most of the sports are team events. Points are determined on how many people participate. For example, kickball is 12 people per team, and that gets more points than the 3 legged race (2 people per team, obviously).

One of the coolest things we did this year was a water event day. We had a cannonball competition ("biggest splash"), a raft building competition/race (could only be made out of certain materials...ours was made out of plastic garbage cans, among other things), and a clothing swim relay (put on a dress, button it up, swim, and switch it to the next person...funny seeing the boys in the dresses..hee hee)

here's a list of the events, for those of you who are interested:

SATURDAY
- torch race
- chariot judging and race
- tricycle race
- bouncy ball

SUNDAY
- tug-o-war
- softball
- mr. / miss greek week

MONDAY
- sack race
- 3 legged race
- kickball
- dodgeball

TUESDAY
- clothing swim relay
- biggest splash
- raft judging and relay
- hot shots (bball shootout)
- volleyball

WEDNESDAY
- basketball
- dance competition

THURSDAY
- greek sing

FRIDAY
- eat off
- lip sync

There is also a t shirt contest and a canned food drive. each team designs their own shirt and they get judged for points. The teams bring their canned goods to the office at noon on friday and points are awarded for the teams who collect the most. Also, we have some events at night (the big ones) and admission is charged. The money is donated to a charity at the end of the week.

and on a side note...WE WON AGAIN!!! (4th year in a row!!!)

I guess I'll post again....

Hardly anyone showed up for Greek Games this year....this of course was due to the drinking games being banned this time around.

Oh, we got last place, whoo hoo! :p

I think that sometimes pairing up more than one fraternity/sorority hurts more than it helps.

I understand the number's issue, but for instance last semester two of the most active fraternities was paired up with a pretty active sorority...there really wasn't a chance for anyone else to win.