Beginning this week on Nov. 8, 2014 until Nov. 14, 2014, Order of Omega is hosting its annual Greek Week to celebrate the social Greek community and bring them together. The theme this year is #GreekWeek and includes many events to help celebrate the week.
The purpose of Greek Week is to unite the Greek community at Longwood University, and to celebrate Greek life.
Order of Omega member Madison Miller said, “This is a week where we get to bring the Greek community together and it is fun to meet others from other Greek organizations.”
During Greek Week, each social Greek organization from all councils (Interfraternity Council, College Panhellenic Council and the National Panhellenic Council) were split up into groups for Greek Week. Each group, which averaged about four social Greek organizations per group, is working together throughout the week to earn points.
Groups earn points by showing up to events, winning event competitions and the teams with the most points at the end of the week will be given the first, second and third place prizes at the final event of the week.
Two events have happened so far. First, on Monday at 8:00 p.m. in Jarman, there was Greek Sync. The winners of Greek Sync were, Alpha Beta Psi, Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Sigma Theta and Theta Chi.
On Tuesday, Order of Omega hosted a comedy game of Quest where teams have to act out scenarios in the Student Union Ballroom from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Miller said, “So far Greek Week has been going well. Greek Sync was packed and Quest turned out really good, and we had a lot of participants come.”
On Wednesday, Nov. 12, a Kickball tournament will take place on Iler field.
Then, in order to honor academic achievements of social Greek members, Order of Omega is having a “Pi Party” for all Greeks with a 3.14 GPA and above. The party will have pizza and drinks for all who attend.
To conclude the week on Friday, the last event will be a Dodgeball tournament in the MAC Gym in the Health and Fitness Center. This event will be where they announce the Greek Week winners. This year’s final event is different from previous years, because it does not include a Greek Ball.
According to an Order of Omega member, because of no funding from the Student Government Association this year, and Order of Omega not being able to fund the event in order to make it bigger and better than the last, they decided to raise money during Greek Week, so that they can host a Greek Ball next semester.
Order of Omega also uses Greek Week to raise money for not only themselves, but other philanthropies, like Relay for Life. The team who raises the most money for Relay for Life will receive extra points to their Greek Week point tally.
Order of Omega is the Greek honor society. Its purpose is to bring the Greek community together, by planning Greek Week and other Greek service projects.
