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What's your big thing(s)?
A lot of Chapters at a lot of Schools have one (or more) big programs that are really associated with them . . .
Here at this campus: Alpha Gamma Delta does Mr. Sweetheart every year . . . Delta Zeta Does their annual Lip Synch Show. Zeta Tau Alpha does Zeta Search for the Stars. Sigma Sigma Sigma does Greek Goddess. The guys really don't do anything . . . So what are the big programs you do on your campus and what are they about? Or the big programs that others do? Maybe it will give us some ideas about events we can do at different campuses . . . |
We do the greek olympics and we have a spinoff of mr. greek week and mrs. greek week, which are in a sense decathlons involving greek games. It's pretty kewl and we do it every semester. and when we can, we try to get as many of the greek orgs to pitch in and donate and help sponsor something with the campus, like a Thanksgiving food drive, or something in a similar sense. I really like what the TKEs do here. They have their own food drive for Thanksgiving and for 100 hours straight, they have at least one member sitting on the top of their house, and it's all decorated and lit up with crazy looking lights and stuff. It's awesome, we'd do something like that, but you can sit on the top of our roof because it towers into the sky!
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Our school seems to be really big on yearly events...
Fiji has Islander...a huge concert/party- They've had AMAZING bands..Sublime, 311, goldfinger, blink 182 etc. They also have Fiji soccer tournament. Pike has Fight Night (boxing) in spring and their Green Fog party in Fall ATO throws Space Jam every year...basically a huge, space themed black light party Kappa and Theta have a Kite and Key crush party Tri Delt has Poisiden Man, a male beauty pagent Theta Chi has Miss Isla Vista, girls's beauty pagent As for sports, there's Phi-Ball (Alpha phi, volleyball) Pi Phi Bowling, Sigma Nu's Big West Basketball, DG anchor Splash, and Beta softball....Beta also has a Beta Bedrock party. AEPi has Mardi Gras which is HUGE every year, but usually gets shut down by the police. AEphi makes a men of Santa Barbara calendar. Sigma Chi has Derby Days That's all I can think of right now, but I know there's more!! |
My post got deleted when the system crashed. :( Ok, here it is again (these are just the ones I can remember):
ZTA: King of the Campus, Pig Roast, Crown Classic Kappa Sig: Bed Races, Shipwreck, and Hairy Buffalo Kappa Delta: Shamrock SAE: Paddy Murphy and Bullfrog Lambda Chi: Watermelon Bust and Moonbounce Delta Gamma: Anchor Splash Pi Phi: Say What? Pi Phi AZD: Xi Man Pike: Pikes for Tykes Sig Ep: Queen of Hearts Pi Kapp: Pi Kapp Princess Pageant Sigma Chi: Italian Wedding and Derby Days ATO: Viking Tri-Delta: Shakedown ADPi: Find a Mister for your Sister DU: Lip Service |
My school's small, but we still get involved in big ways. Our organizations really pride themselves on philanthopic work, so many of the big events have to do with that.
I'm an AZD, and we have our annual Xi Man competition every year, which is like a male beauty pagent. All donations go to a local food shelter, and you get a discount on admission if you bring a canned good. We also did a Toy Drive this year for local daycares and pre-schools that was sucessful, so I hope we continue to do that every year. We also sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt with Sigma Phi Epsilon every spring and invite area children to participate. The K-Sigs do a See-Saw a Thon in the fall where they ride a huge see-saw in front of the campus for a whole weekend, 24-7. Many other greek organizations help out by riding the see-saw and giving these guys a break. I did this year and it was a blast! All the money they collect goes to St. Judes Children's Hospital. The Zeta's and Sig Kaps started to do a haunted house at Halloween for philanthropy which I think was split between their repective charities. This year they did a haunted hayride and let the K-Sigs join in. Our one local frat, Phi Theta Phi, does the biggest event on our campus by far. They do the Walk-a-Thon every winter and have raised over 1 million dollars for the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. They walk in the cold from our school to Pittsbugh usually in harsh weather and snow. They've been doing this since the sixties and alumni come back every year and help the guys do the walk. It's a big generator of pride for the guys and our school because they are one of the top contributors of philanthropic work out of all greek organizations in the nation. They just did this year's walk this past weekend, and were hoping to bring in $50,000, but I haven't heard yet how much they collected. I know our other greek organizations do stuff, but I can't think of anything else off the top of my head. |
Many chapters of Delta Phi Epsilon do "Deepher Dude", which is your male beauty pageant thing. It normally is a great fundraiser and makes a lot of chapters a lot of dough for Cystic Fibrosis. Also, all of our chapters participate in and host an ANAD Candlelight Vigil for the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. It's a big to do :)
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LXA does the Great North American Food Drive! Gets tons of can goods for the needy!:)
Locally we do Western Week, and trying to get Fraternal wide the Hot Tub A Thon along with U R I! Many LXA chapters do the Watermellon Bust! These are all charitable events!:) |
Delta Chi and Chi Omega have a football tournamnet called the D-Chi-O Kickoff
Pi Phi have Arrowspike, a vollyball tournament Alpha Chi has Frisbee Fling (starting next fall!!!) Sigma Chi has Derby Days Delta Tau Delta started Delt Games (it's like Derby Days) this year Tri-Delt has Frats at Bat, which I know that the frat guys love! Alpha Phi has some sort of pool tournament Theta has a bowl-a-thon Sigma Kappa just started A Kick In The Grass, a soccer tournament PiKapp has a date auction every year As for big parties.... Fiji has Islander which I've heard is good but never been.... PiKapp has Swampwater, which I've been to the last two years, good fun AEPi had a Natural Disaster party here, the first year of what they say they want to make an annual event, the party ROCKED boys... Everyone has a westerner every year.... |
some chapters have a red ox mud sports tournament. I want to start that here.
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Here in the LBC, there are tons of fun annual events, and because we are so convenient to the beach, most of the events are beach events!!!
Sororities: Sigma Kappa- Snakey Swish (Basketball Tourney) and Over-The-Line (Beach Baseball) and Sweets with Sigma Kappa (Dessert Night) and Mr. Snakey K (male beauty pagent) Delta Gamma- Anchor Splash Tri-Delt- Poseidon Man and Tri-D Ultimate Frisbee Delta Zeta- DZ Turtle Races Alpha Phi- Phi Ball (Beach Soccer Tourney) Gamma Phi Beta- Crescent Spike (beach volleyball) A-O-Pi- Pie Night (dessert night) Fraternities: Sigma Alpha Epsilon- Cherry Bust (annual school kickoff party), SAE Beach Volleyball, and Paddy Murphy Delta Chi- Del-Tiki- Intertube waterpolo and Grape stomp Sigma Pi- Sorority Softball Sig-Ep- Balanced Man Olympics Theta Chi- Turkey Night TKE- Beach Blast Kappa Sigma- Powderpuff Football |
my chapter just started doing "frater's club" roasts. where the undergrads get one last chance to make fun of the graduating seniors. set up just like the friar's club.
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Here at good ol' Lyon College we have some great traditional events and parties
Alpha Xi- Campus Cutie (male beauty pagent in which the guys are dressed as women), Sadie Hawkins, and Margaritaville (the best party of the year!) Phi Mu- Dance Marathon, Decade Party, and Crush Party ZBT-Ladies Night, Mardi Gras, and Shamrock n Roll (w/TKE) Kappa Sigma- Disorientation, Cabin Fever, and Boxer Bash last but not least, those party hearty men of Tau Kappa Epsilon: Pig Roast, Cajun Celebration, Boos Bash, Toga, and the annual Beer drinkers heaven....George! Cat! Beer! :D |
Let's see what I can remember...most of these are annual philanthropy events but may have parties attached....
Alpha Gam--Water Wars AXO--mini golf tournament DG--Anchor Splash Tri Delta--Trident Gent KD--Manhunt Pi Phi--All male/fraternity revue Phi Mu--Big Man on Campus and Grandslam (fraternity softball tourney) XO--Sandslam (beach volleyball) Theta--Theta Jam (3 on 3 basketball) ZTA--Race to Live--5K run Gamma Phi--Casino Night ADPi--ADPi-athalon I don't remember what Kappa and DZ did. TEP--Pool Sharks KA--Powderpuff Football KappaSigma--Margaritaville Madness (LipSynch) SigEp--Queen of Hearts SigmaChi--Derby Days FIJI--Islander PhiSig (I think)--Boxcar derby race Someone did a kickball tournament as well Sigma Pi did Tiger toss (cheerleading competition) until they were kicked off campus and then it became an IFC event There is Linedance (but it's not line dancing--it's other dancing) also sponsored by IFC I think There are many more fraternities on campus but I can't remember what their events were. We also had Dance Marathon but it was campus wide and other groups besides Greeks participated. Our Greek week was revived a couple of years ago and it hasn't really caught on yet. At Halloween there is "Trick or Treat on Greek Street" for underpriviledged area children. |
Gamma Phi here does Gammies in Jammies where we are dress up in cute pjs and serve a pancake breakfast.
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At Elon, only a few groups do campus-wide events.
ZTA and Sigma Chi-- Greek Man and Woman of the Year ZTA-- golf tournament Sigma Chi-- Derby Days Tri-Sigma-- Sigma Singled Out Lambda Chi Alpha-- PumpkinFest Kappa Sigma-- Kickball Kappa Alpha-- KA Kingpin Bowling AXO- Alphatraz, a jail event Phi Mu--Bedtime Stories That's all I can think of off the top of my head :) |
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Chi Omega- Softball Tournament Delta Zeta- Lipsync Delta Gamma- Anchor Splash Alpha Xi Delta- Fuzzie Football Alpha Phi- Singled Out Tri Sigma- Sigma Slam Basketball Tournament **As of fall 2004 will be Miniature Golf Tournament** Some of the frat ones: Phi Delta Theta- "Buy A Phi" Auction, Phi Delt Volleyball Tournament Lambda Chi Alpha-" Chops" Auction,LXA Watermelon Bust Alpha Epsilon Pi- "Matzah Bowl" Bowling Tournament Sigma Chi- Derby Days |
Hey what are bedtime stories? That sounds neat.
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PIKE - Back to School Bash, Pike's Peak
KA - Trip Giveaway SAE - Paddy Murphy Phi Sig - Phi Sig Follies ATO - Frog Hop AGR - Hillbilly Car Wash Sigs - Mini Derby Days (new this year) |
I can only think of a few
Fraternities Pi Kappa Alpha: Fire Fighter's Challege Sigma Chi: Derby Days Sig Ep: Miss Greek Sigma Pi: Sorority Superbowl LXA: Sorority President Kidnap (they kidnapped our president and we had to pick her up and pay the randsom of canned food) Sorority AXO: Mr. AXO Alpha Phi: Phi Ball GPhiB: Crescent Classic (soccer) DG: Anchor Splash |
Ok well since I am bored I will try to cover some of the events that greeks have at my school every year.
ADPi - 8 Ball (pool tournament) Alpha Phi - Aphifa is what I think it's called...(soccer), HayPhiver (hayride) AXO - Greeks on the Gridiron which is football, right Jules? DG - Anchor Splash, Pinafore Tri Delt - I should know this b/c there is not one fraternity guy on our campus who doesn't have one of their philanthropy t-shirts...well I forget the name, but it's a hugely popular baseball tournament Theta - I actually have no clue, that's really bad oops :( KD - Flamingo Flock or something along those lines, it's a date party Gamma Phi - Used to do Moonbowl which was bowling, they also do a party with SAE every year called Goldfish ZTA - Another one where I have no idea, oops Phi Mu - Miracle Man (male beauty pageant) Kappa - Also no idea what their philanthropy is, they also do Monmouth with Pi Phi (hayride/semiformal) Pi Phi - BMOC which is basketball, Monmouth Chi O - Serena Di Luna which is their formal I think or semiformal Also I think that Theta, DG, and Kappa do Kite, Key, and Anchor As for the fraternities there are so many that I am not going to list them all but some of the events they have are Beta's Pig Roast and Wooglin Night Club (semiformal in Chicago), Pike Stock, Delt does Mekong Delta which is an overnight campout date party thing, Fiji of course has Fiji Island, Sigma Nu does Snakes on the Lake (semiformal), and yeah that's all I can think of. There are about 15 more fraternities though I just can't think of anything at the moment, but I know they all pretty much have annual events. |
ADPi: Trick or Treat for Canned Goods, Jail-n-Bail, Mistletoe Madness, Black Diamond Formal
AGD:??? ZTA: Shoot for the Cure, Champagne Jam, Greek Treat Phi Mu: CMN Rockathon, Barn Party, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner??? Kappa Sig: South Seas, Hell On the Hill (Halloween party) Pike: Pike's Peak ATO: Valhalla week, Caffeine High Sigma Chi: Derby Days SAE: Paddy Murphy FIJI: FIJI Island, FIJI Formal AKA: Leaf Hunt Many organizations participate in StepShow and StepSing for United Way. That's all I can think of right now. ETA: more stuff! |
At Ohio State some of the things that are done:
Sororities KD Slapshot (Shamrock Hockey Tournament) DG Anchor Slam/Splash Kappa Kappa Dog Night AOPi NachoFest Tri Delt Kicks for Kids Alpha Phi Mud Tug DZ Spaghetti Dinner ChiO Moon Ball Fraternities: TKE Softball Beta Bowling Phi Psi PhiPsi500 (By far my fave!!) SAE E Ball Pike Powderpuff Football Phi Tau Pumpkin Sale (Way more fun than it sounds!!) Lamda Chi Watermelon Bust Sammy Poker Tournament Sigma Chi Derby Days These are only the big ones. I couldn't think of some of the lesser known events that some of the houses hold every year. :) |
At my school everyone's GLO (well pretty much all of them) have an annual "party" on campus. Each year it changes. Some of the GLOs do their annual thing off campus and it has remained the same for years. Yeah uh, I won't get into details about those. ;) But, anyway, Phi Sig's this year is a Western themed party. It's held on campus so it's just a little thing. In past years we have done Mardi Gras..
But, last year we were in charge of Greek God and Goddess. It will be a different GLO though this year. Don't know who yet. |
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Didn't A-Phi do something called Alphatraz? I don't know what it was... Phi Sig does Rack Em Up We do Grand Slam Softball And I thought I read something that Kappa Sig was going to do a Dodge Ball Tourney? |
Sororities...
Alpha Chi Omega - Mr. Alpha Chi (male pageant) Alpha Epsilon Phi - Toga Totter (toga contest & 3 day 24hour teeter totter) Chi Omega - Tug-o-War; Salsa Night (ballroom dancing) Delta Delta Delta - Delta Bowl (football tourney); Top Picks Calendar Delta Gamma - Anchor Slam (basketball tourney) Kappa Alpha Theta - KATs at Bat Kappa Kappa Gamma - Kappa Kup (soccer tourney) Pi Beta Phi - Arrowspike (volleyball tourney); Pi Phi Pipeline (surfing tourney) Sigma Kappa - Spaghetti Dinner; Greek Feud (like family feud) Fraternities... Alpha Epsilon Pi - ahhh i forget the name but it's a 3 day 24hour stationary bike ride and a soccer tourney Pi Kappa Alpha - Street Jam (basketball tourney) Sigma Chi - Derby Days Sigma Phi Epsilon - SigEp Series (kickball tourney) Sigma Nu - Miss UCSD (pagaent) DSP, SAE, TKE, and SAM may have things...but they kinda just vary from year to year (including powder puff and dodgeball). |
I can only recall a few and they may have changed since i've left....
AChiO-- ADPi--Playdays--(kickball tourney) APhi--Ivy Cup Fraternity Volleyball Challenge ChiO-- Tri-Delt--Triple Play (softball tourney) Delta Gamma--Anchor Spalsh Theta-- KD--See-Saw-A-Thon Kappa-- Pi Phi-- Zeta--Crown Classic (golf torney) KA/Phi Delt--Kalf Fry (concert) Beta--Beta 500 (go cart race) Farmhouse--Smart Girls (trivial game..i think...) Kappa Sig-- Delta Sig--Miss Fall Rush Fiji--Fiji Olympics SAE--Chili Cook-off Sigma Chi--Derby Days TKE--Crawfish Festival Pike--Pikefest (concert) can't remember the rest....... |
University of Chicago:
Kappa Alpha Theta has Mr. University Delta Gamma has Anchor Slam AOPi sorta picks through different events and has had a pizza pie eating benefit and put on events like MTV's Singled Out Psi U had Cool legs, Hot buns AEPi had Lascivious Ball Fiji had Islands Other fraternities have parties like graffiti but I think they're just themed parties and not just associated with them at other schools. Alpha Epsilon Pi: Our chapter at Mizzou has the nation's largest single fraternity philanthropy called Rock-a-thon. Our Northwestern chapter has something called Dog Days which involves hot dogs and concerts and a bunch of other fun stuff http://www.dog-days.org/ And our Indiana chapter evidently has some HUGE formal/party called Hollywood I think. I've never been but I've heard the bill for this is through the roof. -Rudey |
The major event we were involved with was the Walk for Hunger, as we volunteered every year I was in school (and are still doing so, to the best of my knowledge). We also threw a Halloween party for a nearby preschool. Those were our two biggest philanthropies, although we did have others.
Lambda Chi always had their canned food drive ZBT had ZBTahiti, although I'm not sure where exactly the proceeds went Chi Phi had a rape prevention program Alpha Phi had Jail N' Bail, which went to the Susan B. Komen fund Gamma Phi Beta had a lip sync contest during Greek Week; I'm unsure of who those proceeds went to. Those are all I can think of right now. |
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...
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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.
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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. |
As of this year, these are some of the big philanthropy events:
Alpha Phi- Singled Out Alpha Xi Delta- Xi Man Pageant Delta Gamma- Anchor Splash Delta Zeta- Lip Sync Sigma Sigma Sigma- Pins for Page Bowling Tournament Chi Omega- Flag Football Faternity Events- **Note: We have 22 IFC groups and some of them aren't the most philanthropic groups on campus, unfortunately. So some aren't listed b/c they haven't had one in at least a year. ** Alpha Epsilon Pi- Matzah Bowl Bowling Tournament Sigma Chi- Derby Days Delta Tau Delta- "Week to Be Delt With" (similar to Derby Days) Phi Delta Theta- "Spike Out Cancer" Volleybal Tournament Alpha Tau Omega- Miss Kent State pageant Sigma Nu- Charity Bowl Football Tournament Lambda Chi Alpha- "Chops" Auction, Watermelon Bust Sigma Phi Epsilon- Sig Ep Slam BBall Tournament |
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 |
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