By Jacquelyn Letizia, Staff writer
Throughout the week of April 22, the Susquehanna Greek community holds its annual Greek Week.
The week started with SU SERVE on Saturday, a campus wide day of service hosted by the JCCE. For SERVE, Greeks and non-Greeks joined together to do community service on campus and in the greater Selinsgrove community.
Each group also had to hang a banner for their respective organization on Monday, April 24. Banners were centered around the theme of Unity.
The next event was Trivia on Monday night. The team of sorority Alpha Delta Pi and fraternity Phi Mu Delta won, and the team of sorority Zeta Tau Alpha, and fraternities Phi Beta Sigma and Phi Mu Alpha coming in second after a tie breaking round.
The trivia included questions about pop culture, Susquehanna history, and Greek life in general. Monday night also featured the premiere of the Lip Sync music videos each organization created. Phi Mu Delta and Alpha Delta Pi won this event.
On April 26, the organizations participate in team games of kickball. After four games between four teams the duo of Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu Delta won again.
On Friday, April 28, Air Band will be held in Weber Chapel at 8 p.m. For Air Band, each team picks a theme and choreographs a five minute dance to a mix of songs sur- rounding the theme. Faculty and staff members will serve as judges.
On Saturday, April 29, there will be a donation drive, and on Sunday, April 30, the annual Greek Awards ceremony will be held.
This year, the theme for the week is Unity. This diverges from pervious themes because it focuses on a unifying characteristic rather than a movie or event like in the past.
Senior Paige Wagner, the Vice President of Programming for Panhel, explained the importance of this theme.
“I think that the theme of Unity will bring together fra- ternities and sororities that do not necessarily spend a lot of time together and to have some fun,” Wagner said.
“Hopefully, the teams will take this idea and run with it because by having more people on your team, there are more opportunities to get to meet others that you wouldn’t necessarily meet on a daily basis and to get out of your daily comfort zone.”
Wagner also explained the differences between this year’s Greek Week and previous ones.
“Last year was a rough year for the Greek community, so this year we have revamped with new ideas, new events but also focusing more on our schoolwork and course load at the same time,” she stated. “This theme is not meant to push everyone apart, it is solely meant to bring everyone together—hence the unity theme.”
According to Wagner, the teams allow Greeks to “meet new people, get to know what various organizations are like and have fun”
Sophomore Becca Wilson, Zeta Tau Alpha’s Panhellenic Delegate, agreed with much of what Wagner said.
“I think the theme of Unity will help us grow stronger to- gether, because we are better together,” Wilson explained. “This will show us the importance of supporting each other instead of competing against each other.”
“I think the teams are strong, and for what I have seen that are all working together quite well so far, and I am excited to see who comes out on top,” Wilson continued.
Wagner explained that Greek Week should be about bringing together Greek students rather than tearing them apart.
She continued, “Greek week is not all about competition and we should really be coming together and building each other up instead of tearing one another down!”
For this weekend the donation drive and the Greek Awards wrap up Greek Week. The donated goods’ station will be collected in Weber Chapel from 4 p.m until 6 p.m. The Greek Awards will be in Weber Chapel as well, with the event starting at 6 p.m.