[LionTamer]

One of the fraternities used to have a beach party in mid-winter - it would start it as a mixer, and then open up later.

It doesn't sound like much, but they went all out - they actually filled their basement 8" deep with sand, and had a real lifeguard stand. The fraternity was an okay one, but it had the top sororities vying for an invitation - NO sorority ever turned down an invitation to the Beach Party (quite a feat when there are 50+ fraternities and 16 sororities)

The guys liked it, because most of the girls wore bikini tops and shorts. The pledges didn't like it though, because guess who was in charge of getting all the sand out of the basement?

Another different theme is an "Alamo" party - come as a Texan, and Indian, or a Mexican. Margaritas, Lone Star Beer and Tex-Mex food. (I went in a blue skirt and blazer, as a Alamo Rental Car girl. My 6'2" boyfriend went as a senorita - and not a pretty one, at that).

Oh, and not to be PC, but why a "ghetto" party rather than a "hip-hop" party? Same clothes and music, but less chance of being offensive. It's kind of like the difference between calling it a "St. Patricks day party" vs. a "Drunken Micks" party.