2008 Woodie Awards
Greek Week: Rollins Style
Greek Week provides fun for the entire campus with its variety of entertaining games.
Brittany Lee
Issue date: 11/12/04 Section: News
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The week began with a banner contest. Paired frats and sororities worked together to create colorful, flashy banners celebrating Greek week. All the Greek organizations managed to design creative masterpieces, but ultimately it was Chi O who won the contest. The banners were displayed at the Greek BBQ, offering delicious burgers, hotdogs, side items, and cookies for dessert. Dozens of students, both Greek and not Greek, came for the free food and chance for socializing. After all had their fill of food, the volleyball contest began. The fraternities and sororities competed in the same pairs they had for the banner contest. The games, held at the volleyball courts near the bookstore, were heated and intense. KD and ATO crushed their competition and were victorious.
Tuesday, at 5 p.m., Greek Jeopardy took place in Beans. For this competition, KKG paired off with ATO, AOII with Chi Psi, NCM and Phi Delta Theta, Chi O and X-Club, KD and TKE. Each pairing selected one male and one female member. Chris Zacarda, director of Greek Affairs, read off the questions to the teams. One question concerning movie quotes that evoked laughter from the crowd was, "what does third base feel like?" All the teams answered that one correct. For the final question, with Chi Psi and AOII in the lead and KKG and ATO in 2nd, was "how many active Greek members are there this year?" Teams had a hard time with this one, and the audience was allowed to participate. In the end, Chi Psi and AOII answered closest to the actual 429, securing their victory.
The week continued with the challenging Greek games, held in the Mary Jean Plaza. Fraternity and sorority teams competed in a variety of obstacle courses and races, while a crowd of their teammates and students interested in rush cheered them on.
On Thursday, the boat race took place at 5 p.m. on Lake Virginia. Frat and sorority teams built their own boats and then raced them out on the lake. The unique event attracted many onlookers amazed at the process of Greek members creating their own boats.
Greek Week culminated on Friday with an awards ceremony accompanied by pizza, held in the Mary Jean Plaza. Throughout rush, sign ups were held for formal recruitment and all signing up received a free t-shirt. Greek Week this year had a lot of participation and really got all those belonging to Greek life and those considering joining psyched for the upcoming semester.