Banned Skits
 

We used to be able to have a skit night when we participated in fraternities philanthropies as one of the competitions. Each house would dance to different songs and get judged on that. Unfortunately, girls really wanted to win and they would do things like pour water all over themselves, or they would pour chocolate over each other. One house even had 2 girls kiss. It was all in good fun, but because this was considered tacky dancing, they banned skit night. We want to get it back but we need to have a solution to the "skankiness" of the event.
DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS?
(There is a better explanation in a post below)

Ummm....exsqueeze me? Baking powder?

Why would these girls create a "wet T-shirt contest" theme? Or when does chocolate pouring and kissing come into play?? Motion for further explanation?

Re: Banned Skits
 

:eek:

Would it be possible to draw up some guidelines (would include acceptable and unacceptable themes, behavior, attire, etc) that each chapter must be follow under the penalty of disqualification? That might work. Especially if a chapter representative has to sign and agree to the set guidelines. If the competition is so fierce that people are resorting to "skankiness" to win, they may abide by the guidelines set to ensure that they have a chance at winning, too.

Maybe a representative or two from each chapter can submit some guidelines that they would like followed to even the playing field (no wet T-shirt skits, no see-through clothing, etc.) and then all the reps could come together to finalize a set of guidelines for all chapters participating in the competition to abide by. It's a lot of work, but well worth it in the end if you all are allowed to bring back skit night.

I agree with my sister pbpck! This is totally revolting and has no place in sorority life. It's so sick that it almost sounds like a gag post. I hope that any PNMs who saw that revolting spectacle immediately reported it to Student Affairs.

Do you all have a Greek advisor who could "advise" the creation of new guidelines?

I don't think she is talking about rush skits. Or she wouldn't use the terminology "girls wanted to win" - it makes no sense. This sounds like something done during Greek Week or Derby Days.

Who is doing the judging? Is it fraternity guys? Maybe getting professors or advisors to be judges would solve the problem on its own, because who wants to do sleazy things in front of their prof? (unless he's really hot, heh heh heh)

I would say set up a series or regulations, and you could have the IFC/panhel view a script of the skits to clear them before they are put on.

Also, you could set up a theme that the skits have to follow along with...granted, that may not necessarily stop people from putting their own "spin," so to speak, on the theme, but if you make it something somewhat tame, it may at least limit the problem.

Collin

Well, you could always try what my school does. Our Greek Sing has a lot of rules: No foul language, no costumes, no choreography, 10 minutes for each group. You have to get your songs approved by the Greek Life Coordinator before you are allowed to sing them. Most people get around the costume thing by everyone wears the same outfit. If you break any of the rules, there is a huge point deduction. Another thing is we have it during Parent's Weekend, the same week as Greek Week. No one is going to wet t-shirt/kiss chicks/lick chocolate off their sorority sister if their parents and PNM parents are there!

One sorority on my campus did a "Late Night" charity fundraiser, which individuals and groups could enter - and there were 3 or 4 prizes that participants could win.

They screened every act a couple of days before the show - basically, each group would perform their act before 4 or 5 members of the sorority, so that they could say things like "your act is fine" or "cut out that foul word or that action" or "your act is inappropriate and you won't be allowed to perform".

But sometimes, things did slip through. One year, 2 guys got up on stage and said something like "OK, all you girls out there, come up and give us a blow job!" WHAM, I never saw curtains close so fast! :) (Presumably they did not do this during the screening.) And the MC's came out and apologized, and moved on to the next act.

Y'all could try something like that... pre-screen all the acts, and if someone does do something inappropriate, haul them offstage.

Re: Banned Skits
 

cool...can guys go to rush? ;)

Alpha Xi Delta on my campus has AXD Skit Nite in which it's actually a fundraiser for the local Children's Hospital. What they do is they find judges (hopefully impartial ones) and then charge a small fee at the door. All the other sororities and fraternities are given the theme 3 weeks in advance. There aren't really any guidelines, however tasteless and tacky things will get your group "Gonged" (sp?). So once a group starts doing something tasteless one of the sisters will gong ya right away so it has to stop.
Frankly I can't imagine anyone on my campus doing such tasteless things...but ya never know!
Perhaps these ideas will help ya!

We used to have game shows and dance and skit competitions as fundraisers. We would NEVER represent ourselves that way. I like Hootie's suggestion about being GONGED. The standards of this event... no skanky, wet t-shirt wearing, chocolate-covered sorority sister lesbian kissing! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: BTW, when I read the first post I rolled my eyes so much that my contacts nearly popped out!

Stuff like that would NEVER happen at my school. The two big nights where all the Greeks perform skits are for Homecoming and Greek Week. The Homecoming or Greek Week advisory board gives a theme all the fraternities and sororities must follow by. There are, of course, guidelines such as no wet t-shirts contests or lesbian kissing. All skits are reviewed by the board a few days before the event. I would assume that if anyone tried to pull something funny they would probably be completely disqualified from Homecoming or Greek Week. The chapter would also have a chance of getting suspended.
But, something makes me wonder....
These ladies are representing their letters when they get up in front of the Greek community and do this whole wet t-shirt contest thing. Obviously, everyone knows that they are from XYZ sorority if it is for a philanthropy event. How could nationals not find out about this???

Ha, ha, ha...
 

LMAO!! Too hilarious!! I hear ya, though... :D

I think I should explain the skit night more clearly:
At my school we have fraternities present their philanthropies to all of the sororities at their meetings. They come on Monday, a week before the event. If the sorority decides to do it we donate money and then the competition begins. There are usually 3 nights. There is banner hanging Wed, skit night Thurs, and then sports events Sat.
Skit night here consisited of girls in the sorority that could dance would perform dances for everybody and anybody on the fields by whatever frat had the event. They would get judged by the seniors in the fraternity on how they performed. Unfortunately, the more skin the girls showed, the better chance they had at winning skit night. Over time it has gotten worse and worse and after some pictures were posted on the Internet of girls dancing in cages, panhellenic banned it. Just recently they asked if anyone was going to do anything to bring skit night back. I know that a lot of girls in my sorority are dancers and would love to have it back, but definately guidelines need top be set.
I like the idea of showing the dances to an advisor beforehand, but I dont know if they have time for that.
I think greek life might be a lot different here.

On my campus, for each event that involves skits or dances there is a specific set of guidelines that must be followed. It includes no profanity, sexual gestures, sexual themes, no overly revealing clothing, etc. Then it gets really specific about other stuff like no more than 15 people on stage at any given time...blah blah blah...Every campus should have some guidelines for that stuff and if they don't, they need to get to it fast! Saves a lot of trouble.

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You know what I'm sayin'! :D
Sororities who lick chocolate and kiss each other is a definate turn-on, not a turn-off. :p

At Sigma Chi Derby Days, there is a "karaoke/dance contest" where each sorority does a little dance and yells a song with the guys as judges. The most scandalous thing that's ever happened was one sorority whipping off their shirts to reveal teeny tiny sports bras, but we never did anything more than show our navels, thank goodness. The more arse-wiggling, though, the better the score. I did it as a pledge and had fun, but looking back it seems a little...I don't know, degrading, I guess. I mean, it was a bunch of guys judging girls' "dances", for crying out loud...

However, at Greek Sing last year, one fraternity did a strip tease. :eek: I'm not kidding. They stripped down to their underwear while gyrating around the stage and I remember being afraid that one guy was going to yank his drawers right off...I'm not saying I'm Miss Prim & Proper, but that's a little more than what I expected!

So yeah, I think a few rules might not be a bad idea.

I am so glad I went to college when I did, the late 80s-early 90s. It just seems like we didn't have as much to worry about, as much PC stuff to deal with -- we were allowed to be college students, irresponsible and have fun and no one cried foul.

I am not condoning the whole shake your butt, whip off your shirts thing at all, but... in the context in which sundevil presented it-- as a fraternity run event-- i can certainly see how it could get out of control-- and like I said I am just glad I was in school when I was. Seems like fun came without reprecussions back then. Well, except maybe slipping grades from all the parties. :)

I feel ya on that one, amycat :).

Yeah, we had a couple Derby Days lip syncs that were a bit much, but no one got their noses too out of joint. If the JKL's wanted to trot around without bras and sing Sex Shooter that was their stupidity, not mine. :p It sucks that these are supposed to be events to raise money for good causes and that gets shoved by the wayside. If all the sororities would think of it more as a fun goofy event instead of a win at all costs competition, that would eliminate most of the problems, IMO.

I can't believe people would do that! We had greek sing for greek week and it had rules against stuff like that! The sorority is paired with a fraternity and we rent out an auditorium. The groups decide on a theme and you sing and dance, costumes, etc. the whole 9 yards and you get points for attendence as well as for the different places! IT's a great time! I did it my sophmore year and senior year and it was great. Especially my sophmore year because we won! Good luck!