I am VP of Greek Development at Boston U.
Every year we do a kick off event called the day of service. We either go around the Charles River or to another area (this year it was a near-by school) and clean it up. It does not cost too much just money for drinks and lunch then the garbage bags and the gloves. We get a pretty good turnout every year. We try to get a speaker to come out and talk to everyone before it starts.
Its a good welcome back event because its not too intense so everyone can catch up with each other.
Second semester we try to back the Dance Marathon and get the Greeks excited about participating.
We have also done a penny war and all the money raised goes to charity and the chapter with the most points has it donated in their name. If you want to know more about this one email me at
jschum@bu.edu
The major problem we have is that we are not funded by the school. Since we are not funded, we can not really do any fun events. We are seen just as a gov't that fines people for getting out of line. Because of this, we are not really respected and any events that we manage to pull off normally has a small turn out.
We have greek week coming up and we want to have some great events for the chapters but its hard to do with little money and even less enthusiasm from the chapters.
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