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Originally Posted by L.O.C.K.
I HATE Greek Week. When I was president of our MGC (which at the time was all the Black, Latino/a, and Asian Greeks on campus), we decided to participate in Greek Week.
They gave us a day to have an event. We had a charity bowling event where orgs brought books as their fee for participating. PhiPsi brought like 120 books. THAT part was awesome.
What was not awesome was the focus on the stupid competitions and how the NPC/IFC orgs just send their pledges in their place, instead of actual members going.
Needless to say, planning it with the NPC/IFC leadership was like being beaten with a rusty hammer and then having vingegar poured in the wounds.
The MGC organizations were MUCH more focused on having philanthropy be a large part of it, while the IFC orgs only cared about competition (which was good for us for the donating the books) and the NPC orgs cared about the damn T-Shirt design.
I am not hating on general councils, just that from my experience in organizing Greek Week and going to those God-forsaken awful meetings with ignorant leaderhsip was not something I want to do again.
But, here's to unity and looking good for the school paper!! ::rolls eyes::    |
LOL.
Many individuals and groups just don't see the fun or value in Greek Week and don't think it's worth sacrificing anything to participate in. We sacrifice for our organizations because we pledged lifetime commitments to them. So we will do things for the university and community that we don't always have the time or inclination to do otherwise. Greek Week sometimes not included.
An example is that parties and stepshows are usually fundraisers for chapter operations and philanthropy. Sure stepshows and parties are part of the social aspect and sometimes good for Greek unity but most of the time they are tedious and tiring undertakings. If we could raise the money for the chapter without coordinating or stepping in stepshows and parties, many chapters would. And we'd just ATTEND another chapter's stepshows and parties if we are looking for a social outlet.
So when someone tells us that we have to attend events that have no real benefit to us in many contexts, many of us would rather spend our time and energy in more important and necessary places.