Calling all social Chairs

DGPhoney · #1 09-25-2001, 12:27 AM

Ok as one of the moderators of this particular forum,I am sad to say this particular one,gets no play, it's always dead in the social forum. so it's time to start popping things off. Soo..........
Maybe to help out those newly elected social chairs, lets list a few things:

What makes a good mixer, social or gathering?

Top Ten things to make a social , mixer or gathering successful?

Your Favorite Mixer and maybe why you like being Social Chair?

DGPhoney~

KSigkid · #2 10-21-2001, 02:22 PM

I'm not a social chair, but I can tell you what, at least to me, makes a good social event/mixer:

Quality of people - the crowd makes a huge difference. If it's a fun crowd that isn't going to do anything stupid, that came to party, and that's going to be social and make an effort to talk to most of the people there, that makes a huge difference. In mixers, this would mean a sorority that came to have fun, that doesn't act like they're just being forced to go, and one that will party long into the night/early morning.

Themes can be part of this too - anything that makes the party/mixer/social event a little different can't be a bad thing, and if it works you can try doing it again.

Attendance is huge - if you're not getting many people to come, or if you're not getting people from your own chapter to show up, that's just a recipe for disaster.

As far as my favorite - I'll stick with mixers on this one, the best ones we've had were one with Alpha Delta Pi this past weekend, and our "Wedding Mixer" with Alpha Phi (a sister of Alpha Phi and a brother from Kappa Sig are 'married' to each other in a ceremony where both are made fun of - usually the two have had a history)

ZTAngel · #3 10-22-2001, 01:07 AM

I'm not a social chair but I'll answer the questions anyways.

The thing that makes a mixer/social good is having a good amount of people show up. The social isn't just about bonding with the fraternity or sorority but being able to bond with your own organizations as well.

Attendance makes the social successful. In order to have good attendance, it's important to plan ahead. Give a calendar out at the beginning of the year to your brothers/sisters that has all the social dates on there. If people know about the social ahead of time and can plan around it, then they will show up. Announcing at the Sunday night meetings that there is a social on Tuesday wil not create a good turn out.

My favorite mixer was one that we did with SAE during my freshman year. It was a marriage/divorce social. A great way to meet people. The social doesn't have to be extravagant. The marriage/divorce social was a simple idea, hardly costed any money, and is considered one of the best socials we have ever had. Two years later, my sorority still talks about how much fun they had on it.
Another good social was ATO's "School Days". Each room in the house was set up like a classroom with a theme for each room such as History or Math and there was a drink that accompanied the theme. In the History room, Kamikaze's were given out. Once again, a simple and inexpensive idea that turned out to be a lot of fun.

ThetaxiUW · #4 10-22-2001, 03:52 AM

Why is a party good vs. Bad? Its all about reason. You can't throw a good party for no reason. The best way to find a reason is to make a reason. Get a good DJ or something. If you get a good reason for people to come to your house, then more than likely its gonna be a kick ass party. As for Dry houses, we have an even tougher time. Use all your resources! Drain em' for one big event early in the year and then ride the rumors home. Sponsors also help a lot. We are having Jones Soda and a popsickle company sponsoring an event in early November with DJ Dan. We are planning on having around 6-7 hundred people. Should blow away all other events this year. Put yourself on the Map I always say!
-Yed-

SirHornyToad · #5 11-16-2001, 05:23 AM

Im not a social chair currently, Although i used to be... Good mixers (we call them stags at my school) should be cheap, fun, have some sort of activities or games, a theme, and lots of alchohol...

One thing we usually do is we buy beer and the sorority brings the hard alchohol, makes things easier and standard....

Best one ever was themed 'Naughty Schoolgirl, Perverted Principle' costumes were easy and fun and the games were easy, just make drinking games out of the games you played in elementary school, like red rover or heads up seven up etc...

ThetaxiUW · #6 11-16-2001, 01:05 PM

Okay, so I posted a little thing about this earlier. A event with a dry atmosphere and a well-known DJ. Yeah it worked really well! We had around 1,200 or so people come over. We had two huge dance floors. The DJ thought it was great. Everyone still wonders how we actually pulled out the best party they have ever been to. And all this from a dry house? This proves that dry events can work. One consulation though... he event was full of drunk people. If you are having a dry party you will find two things if it giong good. other Fraternities will hate you that night. We had Tekes cancel their party, Delts party was empty. DU's cancelled. And Sigma Chi tried to break in because they were pissed that girls would come over drink their beer and then come over next door to ours to have a good time. Those damn sigma chi's threw a potato canon out our 3rd story window and had it land on one of our cars. Ya just have to watch out for stupid drunk kids. As for things to serve, we gave out water and popsicles because it was really hot. We bought about 200 water bottles and their were 3 left the next day. 400 popsicles, I didn't even get one!The party was amazing and dry parties can work but only if you get a good attraction. If anyone wants to come, we are having another in the Spring. E-mail me to get details.

SirHornyToad · #7 11-16-2001, 04:19 PM

Every spring my frat turns a parking garage into a beach along with a DJ and other stuff, its a dry event, everyone shows up drunk anyway... usually average around 1500 kids was rated #4 best college party by playboy a few years ago

salacity18 · #8 11-17-2001, 04:18 AM

I am the Social Chair of my sorority and on my campus the NPC is very strict about following the third Party vendor rule. There are no mixers aloud in Fraternity houses. This is done to cut back on underage drinking and to make a mixer safer! Well, in my opinion it does neither! People still drink underage and if the bar doesn't let them there is a little thing called pre-gaming! So now the saftey factor, 200 drunk people off campus half of which are underage stumbling home through the city, not to safe if you ask me! I am sorry cabs take for ever in this city and buses stop running, so what is left your own two feet! Plus the fact that third party vendors cost way too much! Then what happens is only the "big" houses on campus mix and there are sororities that left out and feel dumped on. If you ask me the third party vendor rule is ruining our campus' greek life!

I have a question how many other campus' have that rule? And, if you have it do you like it?

madmax · #9 11-17-2001, 01:24 PM

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Originally posted by ThetaxiUW
Okay, so I posted a little thing about this earlier. A event with a dry atmosphere and a well-known DJ. Yeah it worked really well! We had around 1,200 or so people come over. We had two huge dance floors. The DJ thought it was great. Everyone still wonders how we actually pulled out the best party they have ever been to. And all this from a dry house? This proves that dry events can work. One consulation though... he event was full of drunk people. If you are having a dry party you will find two things if it giong good. other Fraternities will hate you that night. We had Tekes cancel their party, Delts party was empty. DU's cancelled. And Sigma Chi tried to break in because they were pissed that girls would come over drink their beer and then come over next door to ours to have a good time. Those damn sigma chi's threw a potato canon out our 3rd story window and had it land on one of our cars. Ya just have to watch out for stupid drunk kids. As for things to serve, we gave out water and popsicles because it was really hot. We bought about 200 water bottles and their were 3 left the next day. 400 popsicles, I didn't even get one!The party was amazing and dry parties can work but only if you get a good attraction. If anyone wants to come, we are having another in the Spring. E-mail me to get details.

Dry parties SUCK!!!! period...

I don't even consider your party truely dry. The event was full of drunk people right? How is that dry? I have no problem with any organization having a dry event but don't pretend to be dry and then have everyone show up drunk. You are just putting on a false front.

33girl · #10 11-17-2001, 06:44 PM

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Originally posted by madmax

I don't even consider your party truely dry. The event was full of drunk people right? How is that dry? I have no problem with any organization having a dry event but don't pretend to be dry and then have everyone show up drunk. You are just putting on a false front.

I agreee, 100%. What was the difference between this event and getting to a wet party after it's kicked and hanging out? None. If you're going to say things are dry don't be hypocritical about it. It is possible to have festive alcohol free events if everyone is behind them, but this kind of party does nothing to promote it. The only thing it promotes is binging beforehand.

DGPhoney · #11 11-17-2001, 07:59 PM

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Originally posted by madmax

Dry parties SUCK!!!! period...

I don't even consider your party truely dry. The event was full of drunk people right? How is that dry? I have no problem with any organization having a dry event but don't pretend to be dry and then have everyone show up drunk. You are just putting on a false front.

Ladies and Gents please read clearly before you all get all hostile on a simple thread or topic. Also,She said technically it was a DRY party and that people showed up drunk. Thats not being Hyprocrital, if they advertised it as being a DRY party then thats what it is, just cause some people show up under the influence does not change the title of the party to a alcohol induced party. If they advertised a BYOB kinda thing then thats a total different story I don't recall ThetaxiUV mentioning in the post that they drank within the party, if they did then that too is a different story.
If you think dry parties suck then good for you, Don't go! DRY parties are a good way to bond socially with others without alcohol getting in the way. Proving that yes Greeks can do a social event with out alcohol to hype it up. This topic was about ideas of what makes a good social event a mixer, how do I know, Hah I started the thread

Reading is fundamental
DGPhoney~

ThetaxiUW · #12 11-18-2001, 05:18 PM

Let me clear things up. Our charter was pulled in 1990. We rechatered in 1997. We are rebuilding. All new charters in our organization are required to be "dry". This requires no alcohol in or around the chapter house, annex, liveout house, etc. When I say this event is dry, I mean that no alcohol is served or in or around our house. That doesn't include other fraternities around us. We are not allowed to have a group of three or more members from our house at an event that are drinking. That is considered sponsorship of alcohol, so therefore we lose our charter. Simple as that. We are very unfirgiving when it comes to this. We have already kicked out an associate for this last week. So when I say "dry" I mean just that. Not affiliated to alcohol in any way. So take what you will from this, but I'm 21... I went to the bar with the DJ and everything before, but eevr drank around the house at all. We are the definition of "dry" house on our campus, and to say that we are hypocritical about it, you have no idea.

YED

huskyman11 · #13 01-15-2002, 06:47 PM

Okay, so I posted a little thing about this earlier. A event with a dry atmosphere and a well-known DJ. Yeah it worked really well! We had around 1,200 or so people come over. We had two huge dance floors. The DJ thought it was great. Everyone still wonders how we actually pulled out the best party they have ever been to. And all this from a dry house? This proves that dry events can work. One consulation though... he event was full of drunk people. If you are having a dry party you will find two things if it giong good. other Fraternities will hate you that night. We had Tekes cancel their party, Delts party was empty. DU's cancelled. And Sigma Chi tried to break in because they were pissed that girls would come over drink their beer and then come over next door to ours to have a good time. Those damn sigma chi's threw a potato canon out our 3rd story window and had it land on one of our cars. Ya just have to watch out for stupid drunk kids. As for things to serve, we gave out water and popsicles because it was really hot. We bought about 200 water bottles and their were 3 left the next day. 400 popsicles, I didn't even get one!The party was amazing and dry parties can work but only if you get a good attraction. If anyone wants to come, we are having another in the Spring. E-mail me to get details.

First of all that's the biggest load of bull i've ever heard of. Theta Xis at UW don't throw parties that would get Sigma Chis jealous of them, Delts would easily draw way more people that Theta Xis and to top it off the girls refer to them as the "goat boys". There is no way in the world you drew anywhere near 1200 people, which is about a third of the greek system. Now if you were Theta Chis that would be possible, since they throw good parties, but your house is mostly known for their infamous past with goats. If you're goin to have a good dry party throw a dry triad or quad and have the ladies pre-funk at their houses before the party actually starts, it keeps everything clean in the house, you'll draw a lot of people, and you'll have a lot of fun if you get some quality houses.

shultzz · #14 01-15-2002, 07:14 PM

tell us more about the goats.

ThetaxiUW · #15 01-15-2002, 08:14 PM

I don't know who you are or what house you were in, maybe dekes or something, but first of all it was sheep. Goats have horns! Come on. That was 12 years ago. We have since been recolonized and refounded. And believe it or not, we never fucked sheep. It was part of hazing in the old days, One brother had to sacrifice for the good of the others he was then given a jar of peanut butter and led into a room and douced in champagne while the others sat in a different room. They never did the sheep. We now have around 60 members. Your right, we would need a lot of other houses to pull it off, and thats why we had Pi Kaps, Pikes and Phi Pools there as well. As for other houses, these three houses continually have the better looking ladies go to them. That was the basis for our choice. Delts, Sigmachi, and Theta Chi's are more or less jocks and drunks. The DJ didn't want a typical "frat" house there so we mixed it up. To have a DJ that charged $7,000 to play at your house for $1,500, you do what you can for him. Hope that cleared up anything.