Alpha's and Omega's End of the World Party

[ATΩbro]

For starters, as of right now this is going to be a six-pack mixer with 4 sororities and another fraternity. We're inviting everyone that starts with Alpha and ends with Omega, which juuuust so happens to be most of the sororities we have on campus and another fraternity everyone gets along with, so it's basically gold. The idea right now is to start off the night with just a regular party, with guys having colored glow braclets, red and blue. We'll have a globe drop at midnight, which will signal the end of the world. After that it becomes a Heaven and Hell party theme, with the girls who have more blue glows going to heaven and the girls with more reds going to hell. Couple problems with this idea as it stands now, is 1) the social room we have has a overhang, but it's not enough to make it heaven, and we've had a lot of things broken when we let people through the house so most of the brothers want to keep it out of the house (which sucks because we have two levels big enough to have people in). 2) Don't know what to do as far as activities go to start the party off :/ 3) Right now we're fairly low on the party scene, though we've been moving up lately, so I'm a bit worried about turnout. With AGR coming too it should help but we've been blown off by AO∏ earlier this semester (still love these girls to death, but that hurt) with our best mixer planned and had a horrible mixer with AXΩ too, so that won't help much. Does this sound effective enough to get them to come out anyways?

Any and all ideas to help out here would be awesome, I just need something to help a bit. Thanks in advance

[naraht]

Originally Posted by ATΩbro

For starters, as of right now this is going to be a six-pack mixer with 4 sororities and another fraternity. We're inviting everyone that starts with Alpha and ends with Omega, which juuuust so happens to be most of the sororities we have on campus and another fraternity everyone gets along with, so it's basically gold. The idea right now is to start off the night with just a regular party, with guys having colored glow braclets, red and blue. We'll have a globe drop at midnight, which will signal the end of the world. After that it becomes a Heaven and Hell party theme, with the girls who have more blue glows going to heaven and the girls with more reds going to hell. Couple problems with this idea as it stands now, is 1) the social room we have has a overhang, but it's not enough to make it heaven, and we've had a lot of things broken when we let people through the house so most of the brothers want to keep it out of the house (which sucks because we have two levels big enough to have people in). 2) Don't know what to do as far as activities go to start the party off :/ 3) Right now we're fairly low on the party scene, though we've been moving up lately, so I'm a bit worried about turnout. With AGR coming too it should help but we've been blown off by AO∏ earlier this semester (still love these girls to death, but that hurt) with our best mixer planned and had a horrible mixer with AXΩ too, so that won't help much. Does this sound effective enough to get them to come out anyways?

Any and all ideas to help out here would be awesome, I just need something to help a bit. Thanks in advance

Is that beginning with Alpha *and* ending with Omega, of just one or the other? (You mentioned AGR)

Also, have you considered inviting "Alpha Phi Omega"? That would get both girls and guys...

Randy

[Senusret I]

This theme sounds hot.

[ree-Xi]

A few thoughts/questions.

Are so many orgs included that you ended up excluding just a few? A six-org mixer that leaves out two orgs might caused some strife.

How do the girls get bracelets? I'm assuming that the guys have two to give away, one blue and one red. I started envisioning what things the girls will have to do to "earn" a red (hell) bracelet and I had to bleach my brain.

I like the transition from "end of the world" to "H&H", but it seems like a lot of logistical changes during the party.

However, I don't think that you necessarily need a two-leveled structure to pull it off, just two "sides" or rooms. You can create a "partition" by having "Gatekeepers" - some with plastic pitchforks and some with wings (some of your hosts can rotate the job throughout the night). The "middle ground" might even be Purgatory. Tape off a long rectangle and havenothing in it (or put your gatekeepers there). Or if you have a hallways between two rooms, put the gatekeepers/purgatory there.

Some "before" the end of the world ideas:

• At check-in, decorate it like the Pearly Gates or the Gates of Hell (maybe have two sides, just to keep the line flowing).
• "Feast before the famine" area would have food (snacks - spicy chips, Devil Dogs, Angel Food cake...).
• "War" and "Disaster" - have some gladiator movies or disaster films ("Gladiator", "Armageddon", "Twister", even "Ice Age" playing on a tv or projection screen in the background. Once you split, if you have room, have a tv playing "Bruce Almighty" and another playing "Bedazzled".
• "Fountain" of blood (red punch)
• Decorations - pictures of trumpets (do some research on the book of Revelation)
• Have a bunch of clocks around the room; digital works great bc they are really modern (think "24")
• Play music that includes words/themes about time, like "It's the End of the World" by REM, "Tik Tok", "Only the Good Die Young", "Glory Days" (Springsteen), "Forever Young" (Alphaville, the early version), "Bye Bye Bye" (yes it's N'SYNC but the song is funny when you're partying)
• Play some slow songs for slow dancing - "This is the Time", "Time of my Life", "Turn! Turn! Turn!".