Many UCF students association Greek recruitment with one word: rush. To the majority of the student body, Greek recruitment brings to mind images of tents at Lake Claire and visiting each and every house on Greek Row. But there is a different and little known way that other Greeks recruit, an event called Meet the Greeks.
On Friday, the Diversified Greek Council (DGC) held Meet the Greeks in the Student Union, Cape Florida. Each semester, this event is held to promote the organizations on the council, as well as, educate UCF students on what the council is about.
The council currently has four sororities: Lambda Theta Alpha, Mu Sigma Upsilon, Delta Phi Lambda and Chi Upsilon Sigma. This includes two Latin sororities, a multicultural sorority and an Asian-interest sorority.
Special guests at the event included Interim Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life, Belinda Boston and Greek Life graduate assistants Andrew Hughes and Charlyn Stanberry.
The event began with a brief introduction of all the participating Greek organizations and an invitation to the three Latino Greek organizations on the Interfraternity Council. Both Boston and Hughes made speeches promoting Greek life, Greek unity and overall university involvement.
Among other things, a brief showing of traditions provided the entertainment. Each organization got an opportunity to demonstrate its traditions. Traditions that were performed were: stepping, strolling and saluting.
In this environment, students got a chance to see all the organizations and get to know a little more about them in a short amount of time. The event also allowed students to get contact information for any specific organization on the council they might want to join.
Meet the Greeks emphasized what DGC strives to promote throughout the year: Greek unity.
The event had a relaxed atmosphere, beginning with an ice breaker game and included food, chicken wings and ice cream emphasizing this semester's theme, Fire and Ice.
All four organizations contributed gift cards to places such as Marble Slab, Wackadoo's and BP gas station which were raffled off during the event.
The next Meet the Greeks will be in the Fall 2006. For more information on DGC or any other Greek Council visit the Web site at http://greeklife.sdes.ucf.edu/.
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