Sex & The City Theme
 

Hey everyone! I'm on NPC Exec this year, and we are trying to come up with a theme for recruitment. I was thinking a Sex & The City theme, anyone got any ideas we could do for that? :) Thanks!!

I don't like it. Just curious, how many HS Seniors watch the show or saw the movie? I have a DD in HS and that is not even on her radar. I always tell my girls that they need to think about the culture of what HS/17 & 18 year olds are listening to, watching and doing and try to connect with that. Better yet, if you can wait a little bit pick a theme closer to summer because that is what the girls will connect with- Prom, graduation and their summer of the senior year unless you go with something generic.

KSU, yes the theme has been done and in my opinion over.

I don't like it either. I don't think that a lot of HS seniors are going to be excited about a SATC-themed rush, especially after how OLD they looked in the movie. It's over, as is anything relating to Tiffany and Co.

I think a more general theme would be better. How many sororities are there on your campus? You could make a play on the number, like "Lucky Seven" if there are 7, and do a casino theme. Just think about your school and the sorority scene and you'll find something that works!

Good luck!

Agree. Agree. Agree.

Any time you pick anything "pop-culture" (although. as pointed out above, SATC has passed that status), you run the risk of people either having no interest in that particular theme, or worse, negative reactions to the theme. You're best to stick to generic themes, like Munchkin suggested.

Other generic themes:
No Matter the Letters, We're Greek Together
Fiesta/Luau/Carnival (careful with others' cultures, however)
Not What You've Become - What You've Always Been

Also, I think generic themes allow each sorority's personality to come out more.

SATC is tired and totally cliche'. Do something else.

Well if everyone wants to throw out some suggestions that'd be nice too. Know that its NOT for my own sorority, but the theme of recruitment in general. Like last year it was Peace, so we used peace signs alot and had tshirts that said "Peace Love & Pan"

If you give me suggestions, give me a way that we can use it signs promoting recruitment or on tshirts

We understand what you are looking for.

That does not obligate us, however, to help you. You have been given some suggestions. It is up to you how you use them. We're not here to do it for you.

JERSEY SHORE!!!

My school never really did Panhellenic "themes," and I don't really get the point. But then again, Panhellenic at W&L never has to recruit PNMs, so it's a little different.

That said, my freshman year the Panhel shirts were "GO GREEK" in HUGE letters on the front, and on the back were all the chapters' letters inside the school symbol. Each chapter had a shirt in their own colors (Pi Phi were light blue, Kappa was blue, Theta dark yellow, KD green, Chi O red). Panhel exec and rho gams had a different color.

One day a week, all members were asked to wear the shirts. It was REALLY effective. As a freshman, I didn't really know the names of all the houses but I could remember the colors.

Obviously, this wouldn't work on a campus with more than 6 or 7 houses (not nearly enough different colors), but it was a really great show of how many DIFFERENT women were Greek.

This was years ago, but we did a Dr. Seuss theme. The panhellenic shirts were "Oh the places you'll go" and each pi chi group was called a different Dr. Seuss charecter.

The year I went through it was something about the colors of the rainbow and all together it makes something beautiful. Really, after the first day it did not matter at all that I was in the blue group.

They also did a football theme, which failed miserably. Of course, the head of Greek Life at the time was a guy.

My former campus has since gotten away from recruitment themes.

The Dr. Seuss theme sounds really cute-- and what a great way to showcase all the accomplishments of Greek women, from being a new member to now. Seriously, such a good theme.

As for us, we did "One Letter, One Heart" for last year's recruitment (which obviously would only work for Tri Delta and Tri Sigma), but it really only had to do with what our name tags looked like, our video theme (which was cut out this year, thank God), and our skit. I don't think that there was an overall theme last year besides "Go Greek" (which isn't really a theme at all), but all individual themes had to be approved by CPC before anything was done.

There were a lot of "peace and love" type themes though. Ex. I think KD did "Peace, Love, Kappa Delta" and Pi Phi did "One Love", a kind of Bob Marley theme. Best of luck finding one though and good luck with recruitment!

I really liked a shirt I saw once that had ~10 different shoe silhouettes on it, each with a different sorority's letters, and the theme was "Find Your Perfect Fit." I thought that was tasteful and charming, and supported the Panhellenic idea that you need to try them all on.
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Thanks everyone so much for all of the suggestions! I'll definitely taking these ideas back to our director and see what she thinks.

But as for you Alpha Frog, nobody told you that you HAD to participate in giving me suggestions or even reply at all so I see no point in you being rude. I'm simply asking for suggestions, not telling you that you HAVE to figure this out for me. So I'd appreciate it if you just took yourself out of this conversation. Nobody asked for negative input.

My old chapter's pan hellenic usually just had a "theme" for one day. Basically on Open House the theme was "go greek" and all the sororities wear the same shirt with some type of saying on it. I believe this years is "No Actors, just Stars" After that other than broad themes: Philantrophy, skit, pref there is no other unifying factor.

QFP.

This is why I wish there was a sarcasm font, because sometimes I wonder if you're on crack.

For some reason this made me think:

http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/u...the-west-2.jpg

"..and your little dog too!"

We never did the whole Panhellenic t-shirt bit when I was in school - or theme, if I remember properly. But I really love this idea:

I can't think of a better way for each GLO to showcase their own accomplishments, from the on campus ones to the really exciting ones. BTW, did you know that "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" is one of Dr. Suess' best selling books - mostly for graduates?

My University has pretty much gone back to the standard "Go Greek" theme, but my sophomore year, it was a puzzle theme. Each sorority was written on a piece of a puzzle and the back was emblazoned with "Individually Unique. Together Complete." The front had the spelled out name of the member's sorority and then the sleeve featured the same puzzle piece from the back. That's always been one of my favorite Panhellenic shirts.

I get that you're new...stick around awhile. This sort of stuff happens every day. No point in getting your panties in a wad over it. Besides:

This is clearly an imperative statement, implying that if you are going to give a suggestion, you MUST feed it to you on a silver spoon with all details laid out. A simple "could you" goes a long way to change the tone of a post. We have no inflection to go off of on the internet, so we don't know if you're on your knees begging for this, or sitting on a throne on the top of a large dais looking down on the lowliest to do your bidding.

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When I first read that I thought "I guess she tooooold them the rules of engagement." I'm accustomed to people typing the equivalent of "please" before you all give them suggestions. I guess 'tis the season for giving. :)
/lane swerve

I'm serious! You could have shirts that say "Gym, Tan, Sisterhood" and all the Rho Gammas could wear bumpits so they're easy for the PNM's to find.

I honestly think Jersey Shore would be hilarious and awesome, if it was done in a way that the PNMs realized everyone was kidding and that Snooki fashion tips are not apropos for Greek life.

I love this because it is both hilarious and horrible (hillarible, I guess)!

Our recruitment theme this year was really cute. It was "Sisterhood is Powerful." I know it's not like... a pop culture theme, but it was a good statement. :)

Our recruitment themes were pretty simple. The past four were:

"Letters Today, Leaders Tomorrow"
"Speak Greek"
"Be A Goddess, Go Greek" (each sorority had shirts identifying what house they were in. Really cute!)
"Try It, Love It, Live It"

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...anhellenic.jpg

As for the Jersey Shore theme, I wish there was a "Like" button or something because that would be hilarious!

This was our design for Fall

At another university I saw a cute "Where do you fit?" puzzle theme. Groups were different colors. I thought it was really cute and simple. I feel like the Panhellenic theme should stay somewhat simple so it's not too overwhelming -- recruitment is crazy enough as it is!

Disclaimer based on the themes that I've seen over the years:

Themes should be planned carefully as to avoid any appearance of mocking particular groups or ridiculing people. A Jersey Shore theme is hilarious until you have people who take it to the next level of seemingly mocking Italians (Snooki is a fake Italian) or mocking people from certain parts of the country. Even mocking tans and bumpits can be offensive to some people. "Speak Greek" could have also been taken to the extreme if some people translated that to be GLOs mimicking people who are ethnically and culturally Greek. You have to make it clear that you mean "Speak Greek(dom--GLO'dom)."

Observation:

The original poster is closer to the age of the chicks going through recruitment than anyone who has posted.... so I am not understanding how Sex and The City is "played out" among her age group if she's obviously in her age group.

And by "I am not understanding" I mean shut up.

Since when do you get to tell NPCers to shut up about NPC recruitment themes? LOL.

She could be a 7th year Senior for all we know...or like my friend in Jr. High who was obsessed with Days of Our Lives. She made it clear that this was her idea, and one person's idea of what's current in popculture could be much different than the rest of the campus. If the whole NPC board likes it, it may work on that campus. The women here are just expressing that in most current cases, it would be a bad idea.

Sex and the City premiered in 1998. 12 years ago. A kid who's 18 right now was 6 when it came out. In fact, a college freshman was in middle school when it went off the air.

And it's not as good as Golden Girls.

Some recruitment themes are classic. This would not be one of them.

Furthermore, I think you're underestimating how well connected many of the alumnae on this board are to collegiate chapters. You can call us old all you want, but that doesn't mean we don't know what does and does not work (or what is old and tired) on a college campus. Frankly, SATC was old when I was in undergrad.

(The first and horrendous second movie introduced younger female audiences to SATC)

I definitely agree, It's not played out because the second movie just came out last year. But we've already decided on another theme that you guys have given me, so thank you all very much!! :)

Some classic themes work. When I went through recruitment in the spring of 2008, the theme was Wizard of Oz and the Panhellenic tagline was something like "There's No Place Like Home". Obviously, the book is almost a century old and the movie is from my Grandma's youth, but its a classic and is still relevant. I remember loving the theme for the same reason I love the Dr. Suess one, but if you use a classic, be careful with the shirts. Ours were a little overly cutesy and have a place in history as one of the most vile and ugly t-shirts Panhel has made at our school...and there are a lot of vile shirts to our Panhel's credit.

So classic pop culture, if done right, can work. Sex and the City? Not so much.