Everyday dozens of Albright students walk through campus proudly displaying clothing items, bags, key chains, etc. adorned with a variety of Greek letters. During the week of April 20 – April 25 the students involved in sororities and fraternities put aside the differences in their letters and joined together for the school’s annual Greek Week Celebration which was revamped this year to include five new elements.
Albright is currently home to six Greek organizations; Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Mu, and Sigma Kappa sororities as well as Alpha Sigma Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities. In the past, each of these organizations would participate in a Greek God and Goddess competition, play bingo, attend a speaker, participate in an Airbands competition, and work together to do a campus clean-up. This year, the Greek Council, the group responsible for planning the week’s events, comprised of sophomores Kristine Maravel and Alan Vandegrift and senior Takuya Iwata, decided the Greek Week events needed some reworking.
The group began meeting back in March to plan the week. According to Alan, “last year was my first Greek Week and I thought it was going to be a lot bigger than it was. I expected more events and more enthusiasm that just wasn’t there, so I decided to do something about it when I was elected Sargeant of Arms”. Kristine Maravel had similar feelings stating, “When planning first started I spoke with a lot of upperclassmen Greeks about their past Greek Week experiences, and I got the vibe that people felt like there weren’t enough events, and that they were getting tired of doing the same things every year, that’s what gave me the idea to change some of the events.”
The group worked laboriously for over a month with various student organizations including Student Government Association, Albright Environmental Association, MEISA, Order of Omega, WXAC and AC2 to finalize all of their plans. Ultimately, five brand new elements were added to the Greek Week schedule; an academic Quiz Bowl, a Banner Competition, a comedian, an all Greek picnic, and Earth Ball, a dance in celebration of Earth Week which was coincidentally the same week as Greek Week.
Although five new things were added to the week’s activity list, two events from previous years; BINGO and the 1402 All Campus Mixer were not included in this year’s festivities. “Time and the school’s administration were our biggest problems. All of the 1402 mixers for the year were cancelled because of liability issues and we just didn’t have time for all of the events we wanted to have, something had to go and we figured BINGO would be the least missed event” said Iwata.
The group tried their best to include something for everyone, according to Kristine Maravel, “We dabbled with a little bit of everything to please people, we had something serious, something funny, something academic, something philanthropic, and something athletic. We even included Earth Ball to try to have something comparable to the 1402 mixers of previous years. We tried to cover all of our bases. You win some and you lose some, I can’t guarantee that everything was success, but we tried to change it up and we’ll take what we learned from this year to make next year even better.”
To find out more about all of the events of Greek Week and to learn about independent participation you can watch the video below or click the title of this post. Please note, if you click to listen to the audio component of this blog you must choose to download it to hear the content.
Albright is currently home to six Greek organizations; Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Mu, and Sigma Kappa sororities as well as Alpha Sigma Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities. In the past, each of these organizations would participate in a Greek God and Goddess competition, play bingo, attend a speaker, participate in an Airbands competition, and work together to do a campus clean-up. This year, the Greek Council, the group responsible for planning the week’s events, comprised of sophomores Kristine Maravel and Alan Vandegrift and senior Takuya Iwata, decided the Greek Week events needed some reworking.
The group began meeting back in March to plan the week. According to Alan, “last year was my first Greek Week and I thought it was going to be a lot bigger than it was. I expected more events and more enthusiasm that just wasn’t there, so I decided to do something about it when I was elected Sargeant of Arms”. Kristine Maravel had similar feelings stating, “When planning first started I spoke with a lot of upperclassmen Greeks about their past Greek Week experiences, and I got the vibe that people felt like there weren’t enough events, and that they were getting tired of doing the same things every year, that’s what gave me the idea to change some of the events.”
The group worked laboriously for over a month with various student organizations including Student Government Association, Albright Environmental Association, MEISA, Order of Omega, WXAC and AC2 to finalize all of their plans. Ultimately, five brand new elements were added to the Greek Week schedule; an academic Quiz Bowl, a Banner Competition, a comedian, an all Greek picnic, and Earth Ball, a dance in celebration of Earth Week which was coincidentally the same week as Greek Week.
Although five new things were added to the week’s activity list, two events from previous years; BINGO and the 1402 All Campus Mixer were not included in this year’s festivities. “Time and the school’s administration were our biggest problems. All of the 1402 mixers for the year were cancelled because of liability issues and we just didn’t have time for all of the events we wanted to have, something had to go and we figured BINGO would be the least missed event” said Iwata.
The group tried their best to include something for everyone, according to Kristine Maravel, “We dabbled with a little bit of everything to please people, we had something serious, something funny, something academic, something philanthropic, and something athletic. We even included Earth Ball to try to have something comparable to the 1402 mixers of previous years. We tried to cover all of our bases. You win some and you lose some, I can’t guarantee that everything was success, but we tried to change it up and we’ll take what we learned from this year to make next year even better.”To find out more about all of the events of Greek Week and to learn about independent participation you can watch the video below or click the title of this post. Please note, if you click to listen to the audio component of this blog you must choose to download it to hear the content.
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