Greek Week is a friendly (theoretically) competition between fraternities and sororities. There are athletic and other types of events, like a college bowl type thing, and either a lip sync contest or a contest with actual singing.

Depending on the campus, sometimes fraternities and sororities pair up to form teams, sometimes not.

cool that sounds like fun! I wish they'd done that at my school. Sometimes I hate that I pledged in my senior year.

No. There really is no reason to. :D

Not at all. Greek week seems like a pretty exciting event, I can't see why any chapters would not want to participate.

Ah come on. Don't you want to learn door chants and obsess over your membership numbers? It'll be fabulous!

/sarcasm :D

Greek Week isn't a big deal to everyone (including myself) however it is a written or unwritten "requirement" on some campuses. Obligation to participate sometimes supercedes desire to participate.

Some small chapters will opt out because it is unfair to commit a 5 member chapter to Greek Week activities when other chapters have 50+ members whose time they can rotate. Another reason chapters will opt out is if certain Greek Week activities conflict with organizational protocol.

?? Nice response.

That's why they pair up the groups.

Not all schools pair up though, which does make it harder for smaller chapters. But they can prevail - in the last three years one of the smallest chapters on my campus has placed in the top 3 twice. Not that I'm knocking Greek Week. It's my 2nd favorite week of the year. :)

We do that already :D .

That is beside the real point. The fact is that this announcement is not the earth-shattering, world-changing, cataclysmic event that Earp made it out to be.

In a word: No.

Reason: Recruitment

NPC has very different membership selection then NPHC sororities. I just don't think our rush process would work for them, and I doubt NPC would give that up to include D9 GLOS.

I interpret his post as saying that it serves no grand purpose or masterplan other than that they decided they wanted to do it.

So being a part of the NPC would mean that everyone has to participate in the rush process?

If that's the case then I agree with you.

Correct--not all schools pair up.

Sure small chapters can prevail if they have people who can commit time to a Greek Week. Having 5 people in a chapter puts a lot of pressure to alter your schedule accordingly. However a large chapter has more people's schedules to consider so they can pick and choose participants based on that.

I do think that Greek Week is a good and important idea. Just not something that's on the top 100 list of everyone's undergrad Greek experiences. :)