General Greek Council Meeting

General Greek Council

October 27, 2009

 

I.               Co-Chairs

a.     Tailgate Party Saturday! 11:30am on the Prassel Lawn

                                               i.     Show up in Jerseys!

                                              ii.     Free food, raising money for Breast Cancer Research

                                            iii.     Forward fliers to members please

 

II.             Rush / Orientation

a.     O-Phi’s: RAC contract turned in?

b.     Teresa will send out an email to the Rush Chairs – about time to meet for Rush 101.

c.      If anyone has questions, send Teresa an email

 

III.           Treasurer

a.     No report

 

IV.            Standards

a.     No report

 

V.              Service

a.     No report

 

VI.            Judicial

a.     No report

 

VII.          Secretary

a.     No report

 

VIII.        Josh

a.     Encourage everyone to come out for the tailgate this weekend

b.     Please have a great time on Halloween, but also be safe!

c.      Doing well on monthly meetings, some have not been scheduled, so if not, please meet with Josh.

Women's Rush

Posted on behalf of Teresa Bowyer and Roberto Restrepo, the rush/orientation co-chairs:
Being a part of Greek Life at Trinity is one of the best decisions we've made in college. Even if you end up not joining a sorority or a fraternity, it's a great way to meet friends in your own class year, too. What does it mean to be Greek at Trinity though? To start off, there are no national (Panhellenic) sororities at Trinity, although there is one national (IFC) fraternity. We also have a longer rush process than most other schools do - rush officially starts October 9th and lasts through Bid Day in February. Greek Council had a rush kick-off pizza party on the day rush started, but it’s not too late to put your name on the master rush list! Just email Teresa Bowyer (tbowyer@trinity.edu) or Roberto Restrepo (rrestrep@trinity.edu). If your name is on the list, the sororities and fraternities will all get a master copy and will be able to contact you throughout rush. Then they will probably be contacting you to go to informal events, which are a great way to get to know members one-on-one, as well as their formal parties. Each sorority hosts two formal parties in the fall, a first round and a date party. Each fraternity has one formal rush event in the fall. Look at the calendar on the Greek Council webpage to see these dates! All of these events (formal and informal) are totally optional, so you can go to whatever fits into your schedule and you are most interested in. Don't stress about making it to everything because we've all been in your position before and understand that you have homework and other things to take care of, too. Next semester there will be an all-sorority dessert party when school starts and it will explain the remainder of the women’s process like RSVP and Pref. The men will each have one additional formal rush event in the spring. To take a bid in the spring there is a minimum GPA (2.0, 2.5 for athletes), so be sure to keep your grades up this semester so you can join a sorority or fraternity if you decide you want to. If this doesn’t answer all of your questions, feel free to email us about anything else now or in the future. We hope to meet you soon!

October 14th

Dear Greek Council Blog Followers, Greetings from the Co-Chairs! Thank you to all that came out to the Rush Kick Off Party last Friday. We had over 300 Rushees come to the event and had an awesome turnout from the actives. For those of you you may have questions about how rush works here at Trinity, stay tuned over the next few days for a post from our Rush Chairs Teresa Bowyer and Roberto Restrepo who will give a detailed post about the ins and out of rush at Trinity. Feel free to direct any questions you may have to them! If you aren't on the master rush list and would like to be, please email Teresa or Roberto. Yours, Peter Senior and Leigh Carver Co-Chairs

Greek Council General Minutes, October 13

General Greek Council Meeting

October 13, 2009

 

First and foremost, 

THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR MAKING THE 2009-2010 GREEK RUSH KICK-OFF A GREAT SUCCESS!

-- Greek Council

I.               Co-Chairs

a.     Next Week is TIGERFEST! Please buy your tickets to go to the dance, as well as participate in Golf Cart parade

b.     Fat Talk Free Week

                                               i.     Please attend Pilates in the Quarry in Jerseys!

1.     Wednesday 6pm, look for an email from Leigh

c.      Tailgating event coming up, bring members and friends!

d.     Date Auction, November 12^th! SPURS opening up event to all Greeks, all clubs!

e.     November 12^th 6:30pm Chili cook-off on Esplanade! Check inboxes!

f.      Concert for the Cure hosted by Gammas November 12^th at 9:30pm!

g.     November 10^th Drag Show hosted by Zeta Chis!

 

II.             Rush / Orientation Chairs

a.     Conflict on 3 dates, Women’s on weekends, some events conflict (PIKE/AX, Phi Sig/SPUR, PDK/Kappa conflict)

                                               i.     Options:

1.     Multiple frats can volunteer to move theirs, or we all go to Tuesday / Thursday dates

2.     Talk to Teresa and Roberto about it

3.     Many fraternities have events, but some do not

4.     Talk to Rush chairs, send out an email

 

III.           Service

a.     Bri has sent out an email to all service chairs for getting in hours for service. 7 clubs have still not entered hours: AX, Betas, Sigmas, Detl, Lancers, Kappas, O-Phi, Pikes

 

IV.            Standards

 

a.     Please participate in events from other clubs!

b.     October 24^th 1-4pm, IM Fields Gaelic Cultural Society, encourage members to make teams of four members

c.      Service events: GIVE participants get Standards points from last year.

 

V.              Judicial

a.     No Report

 

VI.            Secretary

a.     No Report

 

VII.          Josh

a.     Thanks for coming to the Rush Kick-Off on Friday! Had 400 first year / sophomores turning out!