[ASTalumna06]

In my freshman year of college, one of the things I remember most was the ‘Thanksgiving Dinner for Six’ that I attended. Every year, the week before Thanksgiving, the campus hosted this dinner, anyone could sign up (for a small fee, if I remember correctly), and a huge turkey dinner would be served. There were 6 people at a table, all randomly placed. Even if you signed up with a friend, you couldn’t choose to sit with them – everyone had an assigned seat. There were 2 professors and 4 students at each table. It was a great way to get to know other people on campus, or to at least have a nice dinner and conversation with people that you probably would have never met or talked to otherwise.

You could host a dinner on campus at the beginning of the semester as a joint sorority event (and maybe get the fraternities involved as well, depending on the level of interest and how many there are on your campus). You could have 2 members of different sororities at each table, and then random people to fill in the additional 4 spots (or you could have additional sorority members and random people, depending on the space and how many people sign up… e.g. 4 members of different sororities and 6 random people, etc.). I would also open it to both males and females.

This could be a great opportunity to have the sororities bond, AND to help everyone to meet tons of new people on campus – which always helps with recruitment and the building of chapters. Also, I would make a few rules: wearing sorority letters is not allowed, talking about Greek Life is not allowed.. and I probably wouldn't advertise it as being hosted by the sororities, either. The point isn’t to try and intimidate those who aren’t Greek, nor is it to make it known to which sorority each girl is a member.