The theme parties Siobhan is referring to are often known as a skit party or "Skit Night". It gives the chapters a chance to show off their creativity and to help distinguish them from other chapters in your mind -they want to WOW! you. You visit with your host active for a while, and then watch the sorority perform skits related to the party theme and to how great their sorority is.
I think that NPC's reasons for wanting to move away from Skit Nights are sensible = it can be expensive, and prohibitive to smaller chapters financially; it takes a lot of time to plan and prepare for; Skit Nights can be very stressful for the sorority.
Personally, I know that Skit Nights seem to be the only thing left to really make rush fun and exciting, other than the prospect of conversation. Maybe the way to make it fair to all the chapters, and reduce the frills, would be to put a reasonable spending cap on the party, which would have to be verified by PH. ???
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