Search results matching tags 'Greek life' and 'Alpha Phi'

Check out my Butler Crib!!!

StephF — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:12:00 GMT

So some of you might have seen the Butler Cribs videos already......but if you haven't, I highly recommend that you go to this link and watch all of them....and possibly vote for mine! Sadly, mine isn't as cool as the others, but I did try!!! And mine is of my entire house....which I think is pretty cool! :) Just so you can check out mine...here it is!!!

(Please visit the site to view this media)

Isn't my house fun??! :) I really like it, and all of the special touches, like the dinosaurs in the plants and our door decs! And I especially love that it is completely fine that we all have teddy bears on our beds and all over our house, simply because we are Alpha Phi's. The teddy bear is one of our symbols, so of course we love to do what we call the "Phi Bear" in pictures, and we go to Build-a-Bear, and we put our stuffed animals on our beds just like we used to when we were small children! haha. I also love that when I was recording the video, I didn't plan on having people hanging out in the TV Room, but they just happened to be in there while I was videotaping, so it just worked out great! Living in the house so far has been a great experience and a great opportunity for me to get to know my sisters a lot better! It has it's challenging times....but it is still tons of fun!!! Just in case you are wondering what the "Phi Bear" is.....here it is!!!!

When in Rome

BUTaylorM — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:20:00 GMT

It's a Sunday. It's 4:20 and I just visited all the sororities with some girls from my unit, 1E (except Alpha Phi. We were too late.) and, before, I was total skeptic about sororities and greek life. I had heard from friends about hazing and drinking and such at different schools and I did NOT want to be a part of that. However, after visiting all the houses (except Alpha Phi), my mind has been changed.

First House= Alpha Chi Omega

Second House= Delta Gamma

Third House= Delta Delta Delta (or Tri-Delta)

Fourth House= Kappa Kappa Gamma

Fifth House= Kappa Alpha Theta

Last House= Pi Beta Phi

You can't really know until you get to know the girls and it's tough. At least for me. I have been trying to get involved but... it's been hard to get into some organizations. I never got a call back for BUSF which I think is kind of rude. I wanted to get in, sure, but at least tell me that I didn't make it instead of not calling. Plus, I have been working so hard at school and such that I haven't been going out to the greek events which makes it hard to get to know the girls. I'm really glad Butler doesn't make us decide until the end of our semester rather than rushing right at the beginning. It helps you to get assimilated to Butler. I just hope that, if I do end up rushing, that I get bids based on my personality and work ethic... not my looks or ability to party. Well, I think I better finish this thing up. I have work up to my ears that I must attend to. However, I leave you with a picture of old Butler. It's pretty crazy how much it has changed over the years.

Butler's Best Dance Crews

ChristinaL — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:06:00 GMT

One interesting college phenomenon is the lipsync. At Butler, we use this term on practically a weekly basis, and yet lipsyncs do not involve any singing or even mouthing the words. Butler's term "lipsync" is just another word for "group dance competition"- usually one that provides free weekend entertainment at events that raise money for a charity.

When I was a freshman, some of the fraternities hosted lipsyncs where the sororities would compete. In the last three years, this campus has gone lipsync crazy, and now nearly all the fraternities have a lipsync and the sororities have started adding their own lipsyncs for the men to duke it out. Sticking to gender stereotype, the women with the most intense, intricate, synchronized dance win, while all the guys need for a victory are some silly costumes and ridiculously humorous dance moves. Another change in the last three years is that the non Greek members of campus have joined in on the lipsync craze - Ross Hall and the Independent Council have also participated.

This weekend we had the first two lipsyncs of the year: Alpha Phi's Bounce for Beats Hearthrob competition and Lambda Chi Alpha's Watermelon Bust.

Bounce for Beats raises money for women's cardiac health. The Phi ladies jump on trampolines all day and ask for donations. For the Hearthrob competition, they give the guys a turn - they have to have at least one guy on the trampoline bouncing and they have to use heart-related music... which often = boy bands. This year, the men of Tau Kappa Epsilon won with a pretty ridiculous performance that included fireworks... that was a first. Unfortunately I didn't get any photos of that, but here are some of the other guys dancing, and you can see the big crowd of people that showed up to supoort Alpha Phi's philanthropy.

On Saturday, Lambda hosted their annual watermelon-themed event to raise money for the North American Food Drive. I didn't get to stay for all the lipsyncs, but I did enjoy the humor of Pi Phi's dance, choreographed entirely to Biggie music to bring out the inner gangsta in all of us, I guess. My sisters crack me up. I applaud them for taking down the gender stereotypes and showing that women can be just as silly and fun as the guys!

Oh lipsyncs... They are definitely one of those Butler traditions that seem like a such a normal part of life until you stop to think and realize how weird they are.