is there a good site that offors good social/event ideas... and details about organizing them? we are a new colony, and we want to do brand new-never been done things on campus.. but we are having trouble figuring out where to start...

Let's see.......

AEPhi did Night at the Improv, with college-based improv troupes. After I graduated, they switched to AEPhi Live, a takeoff of SNL. Now they do Phi Cup, which is a hockey competition. They also do a spaghetti dinner every fall.

Alpha Phi used to do the Gong Show. Later they switched to Alpha Phlea Market.

AXO did a lip sync contest.

Sigma Kappa did a talent show.

Theta did a casino night.

Phi Kappa Sigma did Skuffle, a Halloween party held in alternate years. A few years back it was shut down for building code violations, so they may have discontinued it.

AEPi hosts a break-fast after Yom Kippur and a Passover seder.

Can't think of anything else offhand...

ADPi: Playdays (kickball tournament for Ronald McDonald House), Lion Hunt, black diamond formal, casino crush
Apha Chi: Mr. Alpha Chi contest, tailgate, foam crush
Tri Delt: Bears at Bat, Christmas in Salado
Chi Omega: Chili Cookoff, Christmas in Salado, Chi O Coffee, Pearls and Diamonds formal
PiPhi: Howdy Dance (welcome week dance), Firedance, Monmouth
Kappa Delta: SHamrock (softball tourney),
Zeta: Greek Treat
Theta: Theta Taters, Theta Olympics, black and gold formal
Kappa: Baylor Beauties, Monmouth

my brother goes to Bethany, and apparently the Phi Mu's did "Bouncing for Boobs" or something like that, where they bounced on those hop-a-long balls for a certain amount of time to raise $$ for breast cancer research. I thought that was great.

We have Greek Week, including Lip Sync and Stepshow. They're always a huge deal!

As far as parties go, though...

Sigma Pi: Wetter the Better

Phi Lambda Chi: Toga / Blacklight

Sigma Tau Gamma: Tahiti Sweetie / Disco Christmas

Here are some programs at our school

Kappa Delta: Wingo (Bingo and all you can eat buffalo wings with wing eating contest)
Tri Delta: Valpo at Bat and Teeter Totter a thon
Chi Omega: 3 on 3 basketball
Pi Phi: something with pies.. i forgot the cute name they used
Gamma Phi Beta: Mr. Valpo

Sigma Chi: Derby Days
Sig Eps: Sports Week
Phi Psi: Phi Psi 500 (week of different games a party at the end)
LXA: Watermelon eating contest
Sig Pi: Tighty Whities contest (volleyball tournament)

There are also random parties throughout, A big hit every year is Sigma Tau Gamma's Darkside where there's just blacklights and they hand out highlighters and people write on each other. Always a good time :)

sororities:
Pi Phi: Mr. Pi Phi and Arrowspike
Chi O: i think they do a walk or something
Kappa: they used to do an annual Battle of the Bands, but this year they started "BBQ for Books"
A Phi: 3 on 3 Basketball tournament, cardiac care week and a golf tournament
zeta: think pink week
LTA: Fashion Show

fraternities:
sigma chi: fight night and derby days
delta sig: they have a huge halloween party every year

ZTA and Sigma Nu do/did a Jumpathon

there were a lot of new things this year that i think are going to be annual events:
ADPi - Pool tournament, Play Days kickball tournament, Casino Night
ATO and ZTA "Tau Ball" Dodge ball tournament

At West Virginia University..

-Alpha Phi does King of Hearts (male beauty pageant)
-Alpha Xi Delta does Ultimate Frisbee
-Delta Gamma does Anchor Bowl (frats play football against each other)
-Kappa Kappa Gamma I think does some kind of mini golf thing

..I'm not sure what the other sororities (Pi Phi, Sigma Kappa, AOPi, and Chi O do)

-Beta Theta Pi and KA do a karaoke thing
-Phi Psi does volleyball
-Phi Sigma Kappa does "fantasia" which I'm not sure is the same thing every year, but last year is was all the sororites playing basketball together
-Delta Tau Delta does the Delt Bowl (sororities play football against eachother, girls get VERY into it)
-Sigma Chi does Derby Days (biggest philanthropy, Sigma Chi throws a HUGE party at the end of the week in a huge field about 30 minutes from school, just a day long drinking fest and bands come and play)

..That's all I know for the frats, there's like 10 philanthropies I don't know about.

At GMU

We (Phi Sigma Kappa) do Dance for the Cure in conjuction with Alpha Phi Alpha. It's an on-campus dance to raise money for prostate cancer research. As far as parties go, we do Mardi Gras in the Spring--it's probably one of the top three or four parties of the year.

Sigma Chi of course has Derby Days

Pike has Pike-toberfest--a really big party in the fall

SigEp and Pike sometimes do a big pig roast together at the end of the year

can't think of what the other six do


as far as sororities go,

Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Xi Delta both do football tournaments, Alpha Phi does a dodgeball or basketball tournament, ZTA does Big Man on Campus...not sure what Chi O and AOPi do that's really big--they do about a million smaller things each though

At Adelphi:

AEPhi - Singled Out
Tri Delta - Bachelor Auction (co-host with SAAC)
DG - Anchor Bowl
SDT - Campus Cutie

The Sammies don't do much, but one year they did "Sammy Survior" (and I won!).

The Kappa Sigmas can't do anything until they are an official colony, but they asked us to do "The Price is Right" with them next year. The plans are in the works.

We do an annual lecture series which is great because the alumni get involved and come back for it, and we earn a lot of bonus points with the campus administration.

At Minnesota, we still allow Sweetheart Competitions (which I think are great)!
Once a year, a woman from each sorority runs to be XYZ fraternity's token woman of the year, and the men in turn run to be ABC sorority's token man of the year. Each of these competitions are philanthropy- and house participation-based, and last about a week (Panhel and IFC try not to schedule more than one a week). Since the event needs to raise money, there's usually a big benefit event associated with each week like-
nacho feed
ice cream social/rootbeer floats
french fry feed
chilli cookoff
dunk tank
creme pie throw
tricycle races
car smash
5K run/walk
battle of the bands
etc...

Pi Phi Playoffs (baseball, I think)
Tri-Delt - Pancake Breakfast, and Delta Man of the Year
ZTA Strik-a-thon
KD Kickoff (flag football)
DG Anchorsplach
Chi-O Songfest
Theta 5K
DZ Run to the Chicken (5K)
Kappa Kaddies? (golf)
AXO Paint War (paintball tourn.)

At DePauw--

Theta - Mr. University(fraternity talent show)
Pi Phi - Pancake Breakfast
Phi Psi - Dodgeball, 3 on 3 tournament
ATO - Wiffleball Tournament
FIJI - Pumpkin Bash (pay to smash or carve pumpkins)
Alpha Chi - Ring Sing (each house does skit mocking a rival school, admission price goes towards philanthropy)
DG- Anchor Splash
DZ- Turtle Trek
Alpha Phi - seesaw marathon
DU - cycle-athon
SNu - Taste of DePauw
Beta - Cow Plop Bingo

I'm probably forgetting a few.