What's your big thing(s)?

[James]

A lot of Chapters at a lot of Schools have one (or more) big programs that are really associated with them . . .

Here at this campus:

Alpha Gamma Delta does Mr. Sweetheart every year . . .

Delta Zeta Does their annual Lip Synch Show.

Zeta Tau Alpha does Zeta Search for the Stars.

Sigma Sigma Sigma does Greek Goddess.

The guys really don't do anything . . .

So what are the big programs you do on your campus and what are they about? Or the big programs that others do?

Maybe it will give us some ideas about events we can do at different campuses . . .

[damasa]

We do the greek olympics and we have a spinoff of mr. greek week and mrs. greek week, which are in a sense decathlons involving greek games. It's pretty kewl and we do it every semester. and when we can, we try to get as many of the greek orgs to pitch in and donate and help sponsor something with the campus, like a Thanksgiving food drive, or something in a similar sense. I really like what the TKEs do here. They have their own food drive for Thanksgiving and for 100 hours straight, they have at least one member sitting on the top of their house, and it's all decorated and lit up with crazy looking lights and stuff. It's awesome, we'd do something like that, but you can sit on the top of our roof because it towers into the sky!

[Sunny]

Our school seems to be really big on yearly events...

Fiji has Islander...a huge concert/party- They've had AMAZING bands..Sublime, 311, goldfinger, blink 182 etc. They also have Fiji soccer tournament.

Pike has Fight Night (boxing) in spring and their Green Fog party in Fall

ATO throws Space Jam every year...basically a huge, space themed black light party

Kappa and Theta have a Kite and Key crush party

Tri Delt has Poisiden Man, a male beauty pagent

Theta Chi has Miss Isla Vista, girls's beauty pagent

As for sports, there's Phi-Ball (Alpha phi, volleyball) Pi Phi Bowling, Sigma Nu's Big West Basketball, DG anchor Splash, and Beta softball....Beta also has a Beta Bedrock party.

AEPi has Mardi Gras which is HUGE every year, but usually gets shut down by the police.

AEphi makes a men of Santa Barbara calendar.

Sigma Chi has Derby Days

That's all I can think of right now, but I know there's more!!

[ZTAngel]

My post got deleted when the system crashed. Ok, here it is again (these are just the ones I can remember):

ZTA: King of the Campus, Pig Roast, Crown Classic
Kappa Sig: Bed Races, Shipwreck, and Hairy Buffalo
Kappa Delta: Shamrock
SAE: Paddy Murphy and Bullfrog
Lambda Chi: Watermelon Bust and Moonbounce
Delta Gamma: Anchor Splash
Pi Phi: Say What? Pi Phi
AZD: Xi Man
Pike: Pikes for Tykes
Sig Ep: Queen of Hearts
Pi Kapp: Pi Kapp Princess Pageant
Sigma Chi: Italian Wedding and Derby Days
ATO: Viking
Tri-Delta: Shakedown
ADPi: Find a Mister for your Sister
DU: Lip Service

[kristiAZD]

My school's small, but we still get involved in big ways. Our organizations really pride themselves on philanthopic work, so many of the big events have to do with that.

I'm an AZD, and we have our annual Xi Man competition every year, which is like a male beauty pagent. All donations go to a local food shelter, and you get a discount on admission if you bring a canned good. We also did a Toy Drive this year for local daycares and pre-schools that was sucessful, so I hope we continue to do that every year. We also sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt with Sigma Phi Epsilon every spring and invite area children to participate.

The K-Sigs do a See-Saw a Thon in the fall where they ride a huge see-saw in front of the campus for a whole weekend, 24-7. Many other greek organizations help out by riding the see-saw and giving these guys a break. I did this year and it was a blast! All the money they collect goes to St. Judes Children's Hospital.

The Zeta's and Sig Kaps started to do a haunted house at Halloween for philanthropy which I think was split between their repective charities. This year they did a haunted hayride and let the K-Sigs join in.

Our one local frat, Phi Theta Phi, does the biggest event on our campus by far. They do the Walk-a-Thon every winter and have raised over 1 million dollars for the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. They walk in the cold from our school to Pittsbugh usually in harsh weather and snow. They've been doing this since the sixties and alumni come back every year and help the guys do the walk. It's a big generator of pride for the guys and our school because they are one of the top contributors of philanthropic work out of all greek organizations in the nation. They just did this year's walk this past weekend, and were hoping to bring in $50,000, but I haven't heard yet how much they collected.

I know our other greek organizations do stuff, but I can't think of anything else off the top of my head.

[shadokat]

Many chapters of Delta Phi Epsilon do "Deepher Dude", which is your male beauty pageant thing. It normally is a great fundraiser and makes a lot of chapters a lot of dough for Cystic Fibrosis. Also, all of our chapters participate in and host an ANAD Candlelight Vigil for the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. It's a big to do

[Tom Earp]

LXA does the Great North American Food Drive! Gets tons of can goods for the needy!

Locally we do Western Week, and trying to get Fraternal wide the Hot Tub A Thon along with U R I! Many LXA chapters do the Watermellon Bust! These are all charitable events!

[AXWhoah]

Delta Chi and Chi Omega have a football tournamnet called the D-Chi-O Kickoff
Pi Phi have Arrowspike, a vollyball tournament
Alpha Chi has Frisbee Fling (starting next fall!!!)
Sigma Chi has Derby Days
Delta Tau Delta started Delt Games (it's like Derby Days) this year
Tri-Delt has Frats at Bat, which I know that the frat guys love!
Alpha Phi has some sort of pool tournament
Theta has a bowl-a-thon
Sigma Kappa just started A Kick In The Grass, a soccer tournament
PiKapp has a date auction every year
As for big parties....
Fiji has Islander which I've heard is good but never been....
PiKapp has Swampwater, which I've been to the last two years, good fun
AEPi had a Natural Disaster party here, the first year of what they say they want to make an annual event, the party ROCKED boys...
Everyone has a westerner every year....

[Optimist Prime]

some chapters have a red ox mud sports tournament. I want to start that here.

[lilsnakeyk]

Here in the LBC, there are tons of fun annual events, and because we are so convenient to the beach, most of the events are beach events!!!

Sororities:
Sigma Kappa- Snakey Swish (Basketball Tourney) and Over-The-Line (Beach Baseball) and Sweets with Sigma Kappa (Dessert Night) and Mr. Snakey K (male beauty pagent)
Delta Gamma- Anchor Splash
Tri-Delt- Poseidon Man and Tri-D Ultimate Frisbee
Delta Zeta- DZ Turtle Races
Alpha Phi- Phi Ball (Beach Soccer Tourney)
Gamma Phi Beta- Crescent Spike (beach volleyball)
A-O-Pi- Pie Night (dessert night)

Fraternities:
Sigma Alpha Epsilon- Cherry Bust (annual school kickoff party), SAE Beach Volleyball, and Paddy Murphy
Delta Chi- Del-Tiki- Intertube waterpolo and Grape stomp
Sigma Pi- Sorority Softball
Sig-Ep- Balanced Man Olympics
Theta Chi- Turkey Night
TKE- Beach Blast
Kappa Sigma- Powderpuff Football

[teke4life]

my chapter just started doing "frater's club" roasts. where the undergrads get one last chance to make fun of the graduating seniors. set up just like the friar's club.

[LyonAZD]

Here at good ol' Lyon College we have some great traditional events and parties

Alpha Xi- Campus Cutie (male beauty pagent in which the guys are dressed as women), Sadie Hawkins, and Margaritaville (the best party of the year!)

Phi Mu- Dance Marathon, Decade Party, and Crush Party

ZBT-Ladies Night, Mardi Gras, and Shamrock n Roll (w/TKE)

Kappa Sigma- Disorientation, Cabin Fever, and Boxer Bash

last but not least, those party hearty men of Tau Kappa Epsilon:
Pig Roast, Cajun Celebration, Boos Bash, Toga, and the annual Beer drinkers heaven....George! Cat! Beer!

[ladybug1116]

Let's see what I can remember...most of these are annual philanthropy events but may have parties attached....

Alpha Gam--Water Wars
AXO--mini golf tournament
DG--Anchor Splash
Tri Delta--Trident Gent
KD--Manhunt
Pi Phi--All male/fraternity revue
Phi Mu--Big Man on Campus and Grandslam (fraternity softball tourney)
XO--Sandslam (beach volleyball)
Theta--Theta Jam (3 on 3 basketball)
ZTA--Race to Live--5K run
Gamma Phi--Casino Night
ADPi--ADPi-athalon
I don't remember what Kappa and DZ did.

TEP--Pool Sharks
KA--Powderpuff Football
KappaSigma--Margaritaville Madness (LipSynch)
SigEp--Queen of Hearts
SigmaChi--Derby Days
FIJI--Islander
PhiSig (I think)--Boxcar derby race
Someone did a kickball tournament as well
Sigma Pi did Tiger toss (cheerleading competition) until they were kicked off campus and then it became an IFC event
There is Linedance (but it's not line dancing--it's other dancing) also sponsored by IFC I think
There are many more fraternities on campus but I can't remember what their events were.

We also had Dance Marathon but it was campus wide and other groups besides Greeks participated. Our Greek week was revived a couple of years ago and it hasn't really caught on yet. At Halloween there is "Trick or Treat on Greek Street" for underpriviledged area children.

[butterflyfancy]

Gamma Phi here does Gammies in Jammies where we are dress up in cute pjs and serve a pancake breakfast.

[James]

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