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Like I said before...money could be the deciding factor for you but here are a few more things my chapter does.
At least once a month we plan a date dash. This is where the executive committe decides on a date and we don't let anyone else know about it until the day before. It makes everyone have to run out to find a date...a lot of times resulting in inviting a perfect stranger from class or someone they just saw walking on campus. Everyone then takes their dates out to a specified bar that evening. This does not require any funds from the chapter. The bar is not rented and everyone pays for their own drinks.
We also try to do joint date parties with other fraternities. Coming up in April, we are having one with the men of Delta Upsilon. We have not really done anything with them before and we also just found out that they are going to be our Homecoming partners for next year. We have rented out a bar and the theme is going to be BIKERS. Neither of our houses have used this theme for some time. We are really looking forward to it.
On March 28 we will be having Sigma Lu. There is a tiny little hole-in-the-wall bar called The Lu and every year around St. Patty's day we just have a small date party where we take our dates there and hang out.
It has been a tradition to have a party called Sunset Revival here at K-State. The street we live on is called Sunset and in the past, 3-4 fraternities have joined to throw a big "concert". Our chapter advisor doesn't like this party that much so we are trying to work with him this year in order to make it happen. We have started to plan everything so we can propose it to him for approval. Our house along with Sigma Phi Epsilon plan on participating. Our house sits on top of a huge hill so we construct a stage at the bottom for bands and people just sit on the hill to watch. We have about 6 local bands lined up for the gig. We are going to hire a catering company to handle the alcohol in order to relenquish some of the responsibility. We are planning to have the bands play from about 1:00pm to 10:00pm and the shut the whole thing down as to not get a noise complaint. The party would then move down the street to the SigEp house for after hours. Hopefully we will be able to talk our advisor into it. It would be a blast.
Lets see, we also have our White Rose Formal every year in some other city. Last year we had it in Kansas City. This year it was in Wichita, KS. We make reservations at a hotel and have dinner served there and then dancing afterwards. It was a lot of fun.
Thats it off the top of my head. My suggestion is to have some small date parties or date dashes. They are really inexpensive and not too time consuming on the part of those planning it.
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