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I know this thread is pretty dead as it hasn't been replied to in a while, but I just wanted to share the events that we put on at our school.
In Ottawa we have a big greek community that combines both of the cities univeristies. We don't have a greek week, instead we have a weekend called greek olympics. Our greek organizations are not run by our respected universities, so for our Greek Olympics they are run and organized by the CUGC (Carleton University Greek Council) OUGC (University of Ottawa Greek Council) and the Social Council (Made up of all 23 of the organization's Social Chairs/Reps. And all the events are Sorority vs. Sorority and Fraternity Vs. Fraternity.
Starting on the friday we have a bottle drive (alcohol bottles are the only ones we can recycle in Ontario) and the Organization that collects the most money wins (All the money is donated to the Boys and Girls Club) each organization collects between 100-400 dollars each.
On friday night we have our first real competitive events at a bar in the downtown area and we compete in Flip Cup and Boat Races.
The next day (Saturday) we go to the beach and compete in Volleyball, Keg Toss, and Dodgeball.
The night events on Saturday are comprised of Fooseball, Pool and the most popular: Air Bands (basically each organizaiton choreographs a dance to up to 2 songs that are choosen based on a theme appointed by the social council, For boys it's mostly just a ham show, but for the girls it's something that we will work on for the whole week leading up to the weekend) The airbands are judged bythe social council. The winners of the t-shirt competition are also announced that night (each organization wears matching shirts that either say how awesome they are or how much better they are then everyone else, there are some REALLY funny and creative ones each year.)
Sunday afternoon we go to the park and play soccer/hockey (girls play soccer, boys play road hockey) football, and tug of war.
Sunday night we go to the bar again and play beirut/beerpong (winner of the coin toss decides if they want to play with pong balls or quaters) video games (the game is choosen a week in advanced, this year it was ddr, but in the past it has been wii golf, mario kart, ect.) and quarters.
Each event your organization participates in is worth 1 point, 3rd place is worth 2, 2nd is worth 3 and 1st is worth 4.
Of course not everone can get along, so in order to maintain some sort of control over the events each organization is required to write a "fight-cheque" if over the course of the weekend someone in the organization fights someone or causes trouble (there have been cases of beer being thrown at the end of competitions when people aren't happy with the outcome, haha) their fight cheque gets cashed (it of course goes to the girls and boys club).
I look forward to this event everyear and it's a fantastic way to bring out alumni and
it's a great weekend of event that is the highlight of the social calendar for the whole year, it's a great way of promoting inter-greek relations, and intrioducing your new pledge class to the greek world.
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