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Originally posted by James
If you eliminate intramurals does it still outweight socail type activities? Keeping in mind that a lot of the philanthropy mainstream greeks do is social in nature.
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My chapter had the last school sanctioned keg party (36 kegs) as part of our Phi Psi 500 philanthropy in 1988. Social aspects of philanthropies were curtailed in the late 80s. If people have fun while doing good, that shouldn't be used as evidence of an Animal House stereotype.
I would say that most weeks had 2-3 hours of IMs that drew a large spectator crowd. There were probably another 2-3 hours, maybe more, of IMs that did not.
If you were to add up the number of socials in a semester, there would usually be 3, plus 1 for homecoming or greek week. That's maybe 24 hours for the semester. Add 2 BBQs with sororities before football games, and that's another 6 hours. Two date functions a semester for another 16 hours. That's 46 hours, or about 3 hours/week of organized social events.
It probably works out to 6-8 hours/week of being around alcohol.
When you start adding up all of the other things that we do, we're in an organized capacity doing things without alcohol more than our combined, and informal, events that are around alcohol.