You may have noticed a lot of fraternity and sorority members running around campus doing various activities and flaunting their Greek letters during Monmouth College’s Greek Week 2008.

This year’s Greek Week theme was superheroes, and throughout the week each sorority and fraternity fought to become the superhero of the Monmouth College campus. With numerous events each day, including the all-famous Greek Week show on Thursday night, the Greek-life members kept busy and definitely had a ton of fun along the way.

Starting on Sunday, March 30, the Greek members cleaned a stretch of the highway by Farm King. Along with this community service, the Greeks put on a blood drive and also sponsored “Penny Wars” between all of the sororities/fraternities, in which the Greek organization that collected the most spare change won the contest. The donations from these “Penny Wars” went to Relay for Life, and together the Greeks raised over $900 to be put towards Relay for Life.

Besides the community service projects that every group participated in, there were games throughout the week as well. A few of the games included capture the flag (boys against girls) which was won by the boys and flag football which was taken by the boys of Sigma Phi Epsilon and the girls of Pi Beta Phi.

But the biggest event of the week was the Greek Week show, and this year’s show would be a memorable one for the boys of Sigma Phi Epsilon and the ladies of Alpha Xi Delta, as their dance/performance brought them home the gold for the 2008 Greek Week show. Awards were also given to seniors Don Trinite (Zeta Beta Tau) and Sarah Hitchcock (Kappa Kappa Gamma) who won Greek God and Goddess  at the show, respectively. The best banner was awarded to the boys of Sigma Phi Epsilon, and the best dance sequence went to the ladies of Pi Beta Phi and the boys of Zeta Beta Tau.

To wrap up Greek Week, a banquet was held in Stockdale to announce the winners of the week’s activities. This year’s overall winner was Alpha Xi Delta. The spirit award went to the girls of Pi Beta Phi, and the Greek God/Goddess for the 2008 Greek Week went to Aaron Payette of Phi Delta Theta and Kate Hauser of Pi Beta Phi.

Greek Week was a huge success and a lot of fun not only for those involved, but also for the non-Greeks who got to observe all of the activities.       

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