Chapter Sweethearts?

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
It varies a lot by chapter...and some don't have them at all. If you do a search for sweethearts, you should find some info.

Examples of several different "sweetheart" arrangements, all on my campus:

• TKE voted on theirs as a chapter
• FarmHouse brought them in like new members, they pledged and were initiated
• SigEp said a sweetheart was anyone a brother pinned

Most of the sororities also had a "Sweetheart" of some type or anyother.

In addition to that, at my old university (Minnesota), the fraternities and sororities had sweetheart competitions! They were usually about a week long. Each fraternity would nominate one member for a sorority sweetheart competition and spend his week trying to impress them -- baking cookies, putting on a skit with his brothers talking about how cool the sorority was, making posters to hang up in the house about how much he liked them. At the end of the week, the sisters voted on their favorites. It sounded like a good way to make friends in other chapters, although I had a friend who was nominated for like, three sweetheart competitions by his chapter and he says they're exhausting and tons of work.

I don't think most schools do that, though.

Here our sweetheart is called the Delta Dream Guy, and everybody in the chapter votes on who it will be -- usually it's one of the senior girl's boyfriends who everybody likes. We crown him at formal.