Spring Break
The Daily OrangeSystem reforms charity events
By Meredith Bowen
Posted: 2/28/05, 12:30 AM EST Section: News
Renting Goldstein for an event such as a speech could cost up to $3,500. In comparison, Although Faegan's does not host fraternities and sorority events anymore; in the past it would charge around $2 per pint of beer and sell it by the keg, said manager Mark Clouse.
The IFC has been given money from the university to help solve this problem, McIntosh said. Most fraternities have been supportive and willing to work with the IFC, but others are reluctant to change their social-philanthropy mixes, he said.
"Some don't want to leave the bars," he said. "I say, 'You need to contact your national director, because I know what his response will be.'"
Moving out of the bars is only one of the changes that the Panhellenic Council is making for philanthropic events, said new Panhellenic Council President and former Daily Orange columnist Dana Lucas. The council will also be working with the IFC to help change the sexually connotative competitions that are often the basis of fraternity's philanthropies, she said.
"We've had a lot of problems with that," Lucas said. "The situations women are put in make them uncomfortable."
Sororities are extremely competitive, Lucas said, and the competition often drives women to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.
"It doesn't help when you have people drinking at the same time," she said.
Lucas said she hopes philanthropies will also begin to serve as a way to unite the greek community. Usually, fraternities only invite sororities to their philanthropy events and vice versa, she said, but hopes this year will see the beginning of more coed events, such as the popular Delta Kappa Epsilon volleyball tournament.
Phi Sigma Sigma, Lucas' sorority, will be the first sorority to try this, she said. They will host their first Texas-Hold 'Em and blackjack tournament to benefit the National Kidney Foundation March 8 at Varsity Pizza, she said.
Having sororities work together on philanthropies would also help to cut down on the competition between houses, Lucas said.
The IFC has been given money from the university to help solve this problem, McIntosh said. Most fraternities have been supportive and willing to work with the IFC, but others are reluctant to change their social-philanthropy mixes, he said.
"Some don't want to leave the bars," he said. "I say, 'You need to contact your national director, because I know what his response will be.'"
Moving out of the bars is only one of the changes that the Panhellenic Council is making for philanthropic events, said new Panhellenic Council President and former Daily Orange columnist Dana Lucas. The council will also be working with the IFC to help change the sexually connotative competitions that are often the basis of fraternity's philanthropies, she said.
"We've had a lot of problems with that," Lucas said. "The situations women are put in make them uncomfortable."
Sororities are extremely competitive, Lucas said, and the competition often drives women to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.
"It doesn't help when you have people drinking at the same time," she said.
Lucas said she hopes philanthropies will also begin to serve as a way to unite the greek community. Usually, fraternities only invite sororities to their philanthropy events and vice versa, she said, but hopes this year will see the beginning of more coed events, such as the popular Delta Kappa Epsilon volleyball tournament.
Phi Sigma Sigma, Lucas' sorority, will be the first sorority to try this, she said. They will host their first Texas-Hold 'Em and blackjack tournament to benefit the National Kidney Foundation March 8 at Varsity Pizza, she said.
Having sororities work together on philanthropies would also help to cut down on the competition between houses, Lucas said.
