Greek Week

[KMac]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Wow, that kind of defeats the purpose of having Greek Week. Do your organizations get split up into teams, or is it a free-for-all?

No every sport/game/event is sorority on sorority and fraternity on fraternity. Sports (football,basketball..etc.) are played in a double elimination format. We are paired up with fraternities for field-day and greek sing though. Can-Serve-A-Thon we used to do alone but this year we were requested to ask a non-greek club to help us with. At the end of the week we have greek awards. Which sucks if you happen to not be in a athletic glo. Everytime a sorority wins something (individual award or collective) they stand up and do a cheer like ADPi does "I love my A-A-D-D-PI! I love em'" Phi Mu does something that is so fast you can't understand ZTA does Who Wears the Crown...and so on. Everyone sits and watches and then things proceed. Its crazy!

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by KMac

No every sport/game/event is sorority on sorority and fraternity on fraternity. Sports (football,basketball..etc.) are played in a double elimination format. We are paired up with fraternities for field-day and greek sing though. Can-Serve-A-Thon we used to do alone but this year we were requested to ask a non-greek club to help us with. At the end of the week we have greek awards. Which sucks if you happen to not be in a athletic glo. Everytime a sorority wins something (individual award or collective) they stand up and do a cheer like ADPi does "I love my A-A-D-D-PI! I love em'" Phi Mu does something that is so fast you can't understand ZTA does Who Wears the Crown...and so on. Everyone sits and watches and then things proceed. Its crazy!

Wow. You can't really have Greek unity with a format like that. My school split up the organizations into 4 groups (we have about 32 organizations, so 8 GLOs per group). The competition is between the 4 groups rather than the 32. It gives students an opportunity to interact with groups they may not have known about.

[KMac]

You're completly right. Mind you we have 5 sororities and 5 fraternities (sororities run about 150 strong) (fraternities run around 30-50) It's crazy, and at the end of greek week it seems that people are more angry than happy with it. Unless you happen to win the whole she-bang, and in that case during recruitment (guys/girls) these groups spend half their time talking about how they won greek week. This year someone made a t-shirt that had all the glos on it and it said "Give Peace A Chance". I'm suprised that it isn't like this every school, I'm really embarrassed that ours is like this when everyone elses is about greek unity. People start practicing at our school as soon as rush is over in Aug. It's insane.