Besides the excitement of Opening Week in the Major Leagues, Monmouth College had an additional buzz around campus this week. Greek Week is the one week out of the year at Monmouth College dedicated to the seven Greek organizations.

It involves activities each night that bring together the Greeks on campus. This year’s event took place from Monday, March 31 to Friday, April 4. As people around the nation celebrated their favorite baseball teams, Monmouth watched the members of its fraternities and sororities flaunting their Greek letters and running around campus taking part in various fun activities.

These activities included flag football, a pie eating contest, capture the flag, a blood drive and even a penny-drive to raise money for Relay for Life. Like a baseball game, after all of the events have been judged, the winning team (sorority or fraternity) will be crowned.

Ashley Trueblood, president of Alpha Xi Delta, said, “Greek Week is a time for our sorority to bond with the rest of the Greek community. It is a time for all of us to come together and represent Greek life in a positive light to the rest of the college community. Being Greek is an amazing experience and together we can all celebrate our hard work throughout the year!”

“Greek Week is usually put on by IFC and Panhallenic, two organizations which allow all the fraternities and sororities to meet and discuss issues. The councils feel that Greek Week helps promote inter-Greek relations. Some of the benefits are having fun events that are non-academic and let our members blow off steam.  It also gets people meeting and making new connections with other different organizations,” says Freddy Martinez, co-chair of the Greek Week committee and a member of Zeta Beta Tau.

But why devote a week to being Greek? Lindsey Peterson, president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, stated, “I think that many tend to assume that because we are ‘Greek,’ we are always together.  However, each organization has so many of their own events and activities they are participating in, there is rarely time for fraternities and sororities to hold events together. This is one week out of the school year that we try to put our individual organization’s activities on the back burner and focus more on promoting Greek Life as a whole.”

So, as Greek Week comes to an end, students across campus, Greek or not, can appreciate the memories and benefits this week has given them. Even though the winner of the entire Greek Week isn’t announced until Friday night (and won’t be covered until next week’s paper), the campus is still abuzz from all that was Greek Week.

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