News Release

Greek-wide talent show brings fraternities and sororities together

Sasha Kauffman, February 20, 2010 The bi-annual Greek talent show is this Thursday night February 18, 2010 at 7pm. Every semester, during Fall Greek Week and Spring Greek Winter Carnival, Greeks put on a talent show. The show celebrates the creative talents and friendly competition of fraternities and sororities once a semester.

Each semesters’ [Greek] week has a different theme. This semester’s theme is Disney and Greeks will be performing to and dressed to Disney in the show. Nine fraternities and five sororities will be participating in the event, of the 18 fraternities and seven sororities on campus.

Greek Week and Greek Winter Carnival are week-long competitions between fraternities and sororities on campus. Greeks compete for the most points through various participation events all week. This semester there was a canned food drive, snowball fight, sled race and Disney trivia, among other events. Every semester there is letter sign-in day, when Greeks wear their letters all day and compete to sign-in the most members for their chapter.

The talent show is the largest and final event of the week. Fraternities and sororities dress-up, choreograph dance routines, act and sing during the show. The acts represent the individuality and creativity of each chapter and are funny and in good-spirit.

Last semester’s talent show was a Nickelodeon theme. Greeks dressed up as characters such as Doug from ‘Doug’ and cat-dog from ‘Cat-dog’. They wrote songs, played musical instruments and performed dance routines. This semester’s theme has brought as much excitement and entertainment as the last. It is a theme that every student is familiar with and grew up with. Disney characters and songs being performed in the talent show include the Mickey Mouse Club, the Lion King, Peter Pan, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast.

This semester’s talent show is in Minsky hall and free to all students. For further details contact Gustavo Burkett on First Class. [For immediate release]