Parties with custom t-shirts

[gee_ess]

Think of the t-shirts as a party favor. If you are having a date function, you buy one for yourself and your date OR if it is a mixer, the fraternity has a sign up sheet as well as the participating sorority, and each pays for his own.

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by gee_ess

Think of the t-shirts as a party favor. If you are having a date function, you buy one for yourself and your date OR if it is a mixer, the fraternity has a sign up sheet as well as the participating sorority, and each pays for his own.

Did they call it a mixer back in the olden days?

[gee_ess]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Did they call it a mixer back in the olden days?

Back in the olden days?! Aagh!

Actually, no, we called them functions like they do now. I think that the majority of people on GC seem to call them mixers and I just oversimplified my answer by using that term in my response.

[RoeCyris]

I want to say thank you to everyone for the information! I think based on what I've read that part of the reason that these shirts may be unusuall here is because of the financial situation of most people here and perhaps because everyone wears stitched letters. I have 5 garments with stitched letters and most people have 4-8 as well so screenprinted t-shirts are as necessary in a way. At least thats how I'm reading this thread.

On a sidenote, to the person that posted those chapter fees charts.... wow. Dues in my fraternity are between 280-420 depending on living in the house or not and I dont think any of the sororities go near $500 on this campus. are those typical dues rates?!

Anyways, again, thank you to everyone for your help. It's so interesting to see how greek communities operate in different parts of the country. Thanks!

[cbm]

Very typical. Mine were around $3,000 per semester living in house....and those are the mandatory dues, it does not include all of the optional things such as tshirts, intramurals, walkout, gifts, etc. That was 9 years ago, so I'm sure costs have gone up since then.

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by RoeCyris

. . .On a sidenote, to the person that posted those chapter fees charts.... wow. Dues in my fraternity are between 280-420 depending on living in the house or not and I dont think any of the sororities go near $500 on this campus. are those typical dues rates?!

Anyways, again, thank you to everyone for your help. It's so interesting to see how greek communities operate in different parts of the country. Thanks!

Dues vary enormously from campus to campus, depending on many things: is a house maintained? Is a house meal plan included in the dudes? Are costs for formals, mixers, other events (Homecoming decorations, for example), big/little gifts, t-shirts, etc., etc., included or are those "extras"? Some people have been known to say it isn't necessarily the basic dues / fees that can be a concern, it's all those little extras -- those $5, $10, $20, $50 hits that may not be noticeable immediately, but that can add up over a semester or two.

By the way, I agree that one of the most interesting and valuable things about GC, from my perspective anyway, is, as you said, seeing "how greek communities operate in different parts of the country."