To conclude a Greek week of sporting events, singing competitions, cookouts and a date auction, All Greek Council sponsored a cookout on Harris Field Sunday.
The Council presented awards to the top three-scoring fraternities and sororities totaled from the week’s events.
Zeta Tau Alpha was the top sorority, with Delta Zeta and Chi Omega in second and third places.
Chi Psi took the lead for fraternities, followed by Delta Upsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon.
“It was great for us as a group of Greeks to come together and connect back to the University,” Lisa Jeffries, Greek Week Chair and member of Pi Beta Phi, said.
Jeffries, a senior in textile and apparel management, said the week provided opportunities for sorority and fraternity members from the Inter-Fraternity Council, Panhellenic Association, Collaborative Greek Council and National Pan-hellenic Council to interact.
Mandy McGhee, vice president of communication and finance for All Greek Council, said the lip sync was her favorite event of the week.
She said her sorority, Delta Zeta, went with a Bring It On theme for the competition.
“It was really spontaneous,” McGhee, a senior in communications, said. “Everyone was interacting.”
Adrianne Fields, a member of Pi Beta Phi and a senior business management, said the week’s competitions helped strengthen bonds within sorority and fraternity chapters.
Fields said Greek Week is important because it involves, “everybody getting together since our campus isn’t as Greek-oriented as other schools.”
But, she said in the future, she hopes to see all chapters participating in the events, especially the singing contest.
“It would be cool if everybody participated in Serenade,” she said.
As a member of Delta Sigma Phi, William Hackett said this was his first year participating but not his Fraternity’s first.
“Our fraternity has been doing this for ages,” he said.
Although Hackett, a sophomore in political science, said he sang “Bohemian Rhapsody” in the singing contest, along with tunes by Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, the philanthropy aspect of the week was key.
“[Greek Week] shows the rest of the school how much we get involved as Greeks,” he said.
Hackett said chapters participated in a blood drive and a school supply drive, among other service activities throughout the week.
“We had two days when all fraternities and sororities could sign up for an appointment [to donate blood],” he said.
He said Greek Week helps his fraternity and other Greek organizations to recruit as students can readily see the chapters and what they are involved in.
Mike Taylor, a member of Delta Upsilon, said he joined his fraternity this year.
“It’s a group of like-minded guys with our forefather’s principles,” Taylor, a freshman in biological sciences, said.
He said his favorite events of the week were basketball and the tug-of-war, but said he regrets not participating in the lip sync.
Taylor said Greek Week showed “the Greek community is strong on the N.C. State campus.”