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SSS and Formal: A crazy weekend!

LizM — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:42:00 GMT

Only one week of classes left! Yikes! The worst thing about it, is that this weekend was SO much fun but I got absolutely nothing done.

Friday night was Spring Sports Spectacular, the event put on by SGA that was a huge variety of sports competitions between the greek houses and independent council*. There were so many activities between Hinkle, the Health and Rec Center, and the Butler Bowl. I personally beasted some Mario Kart on the N64. I didn't win, but i gave the race all i had. I found a group of Thetas and we wandered around, watching the intense tug-of-war battle in the main gym, and the extremely popular dance off contest and karaoke in Hinkle. I think the most fierce competition was the soccer tournament, but those games didn't start until really late and I was so tired, so I didn't stick around for that. Jimmy Johns and Hot Box pizza provided some delicious goodies so I couldn't pass that up either. There was also a penny war between all of the houses. Honestly, I probably helped Theta lose because I didn't understand the concept of the penny war AT ALL. I felt kind of stupid.

Apparently you get points for every Penny you put in the bucket, and real money or silver coins detract points. Unbeknownst to me, I threw some dollars and coins in our bucket, confused why later my friends asked me why I put it in ours and not someone elses ha! But all of the money went towards supporting the Special Olympics, so no matter who won it was all for a fantastic cause.

Our formal was the following night, so I headed home around midnight to catch some z's before Saturday. My Saturday was nice and relaxing: Headed to Starbucks in the morning to knock out some Bio homework, went to the HRC for a quick workout, and then back to Schwiz to shower, paint my nails and curl my hair before 6. I volunteered to be on risk management for this formal, so I helped out the head Theta in charge of making sure everyone got to the dance safely and anyone who wanted to leave early could get a Cab back to school. I went over to the house early to get some pictures with my friends and check out everyone's pretty dresses :) I ended up taking two dates (because ladies is pimps too) and they were both sooo much fun!! I had a blast dancing with everyone and enjoying the night.

Yesterday I pretty much got nothing at all done, and I have a heavy workload for this last week of class. Boo. Two of my friends and I went to Target and bought a lot of things we didn't really need: Some pretty sweet crazy sunglasses and strawberry milkshake oreos. When we got back to school it was raining, so we put on our shades and had a spontaneous dance party in the parking lot. These are the things I will miss the most over the summer. Just being able to go out and do absolutely nothing but loving every minute of it.

*I mentioned Independent Council before and you're probably wondering what that is. Independent Council just started up this year, and is a group of students who are non-Greek but still want to participate in the big philanthropy events for the houses as well as all campus events like SSS and Spring Sing. They've had a great first year on campus, participating in Trike lipsyncs, Spring sing, and Spring sports as well as hosting a benefit concert with some on-campus bands. Pretty exciting stuff!

holy moly!

AnnaK — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:58:00 GMT

There has been so much going on the past few weeks that it's been hard to sit and write about just one. We just finished Greek Week, which was planned by my very own big sis! It was pretty cool - a whole week dedicated to the Greek community on campus with games, giveaways, and food. I really like being a part of a sorority because I've made a ton of new friends and it's easier to meet other people in different houses. I'm also very excited for my house's formal dance tonight - I'm sure Christina L. and I will take a few great pictures together to share with everyone. I hope everyone's enjoying the beautiful weather!

2007: A year in pictures

ChristinaL — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:00:00 GMT

You may think I put tons of pictures up on my blog, but for every one I post, there are hundreds more on my computer. To celebrate the end of 2007, I picked out some of my favorite shots that you haven't seen before. Enjoy!

Bell tower in the snow, February 2007.

Snow day! The guiding spirit of our music fraternity was named Boh, so we made a Kappa Kappa Psi themed "Boh-man".

Our student foundation is known for our rugbies... but we stole the idea from University of Wisconsin. Our conference in Madison was a blast - it's such a cool city and we loved hanging out with the UW students!

KKPsi hosted Salsa Night last year - here's two of my friends dancing. At Butler, we love ballroom dancing (everyone's favorite PE credit!)

In front of the house with my Greek family after I got initiated into Pi Phi.

Sweet 16 game vs. Florida! Butler showed it on a massive screen in Clowes hall. We may have lost, but we're winning in this picture

When our team arrived home from the Sweet 16 in St. Louis, we were there to cheer for them when they got off the bus.

Sigma Nu's World Vision Bowl (sorority football tournament) is one of the most popular Greek events all year. Check out our team captain getting tackled in the middle! Those girls were intense!

All the music & dance fraternities & sororities teamed up this year for a pirate-themed formal. Everyone else pretty much wore normal dresses and suits, but three of my friends who were the DJs for the evening really got into it.

At our District convention in Cincinnati, my Big Big Big Brother Eric won the highest award a collegiate member of KKPsi can get! We were so proud. It was an exciting convention because my big brother (and blogger) Alex was elected district secretary/treasurer, our former chapter president Jeremy was elected district president, and our chapter was selected to host the next convention in Indianapolis! I feel so lucky to be part of such an outstanding group.

So my friend Julie was studying abroad last spring in Australia, but before she left she had a life-size cardboard cut-out made of herself! We took it to all of our KKPsi events and tagged "her" in all our photos of so she could see what we were up to. In this shot, she's hanging out in Cincy with us. Only Julie...

The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life is a huge event at Butler and so much fun. Last year some of my friends and I dressed up our buddy Paul for the Miss-ter Relay beauty competition. Makeup, shaved legs, panty-hose, jewelry... "Paula" was the real deal. She raised a bunch of money for cancer research and so we won the competition!

Once upon a time, we were cleaning out the band storage room in Hinkle when we found a box. My friend Nate said, "Hey, I can use this!" He took the box home over winter break, and when he came back... Boxbot was born! After that, many late nights were spent doing Boxbot photo shoots around Ross Hall...oh the freshmen dorm life. Nothing like it!

I know this isn't the greatest quality picture, but no record of 2007 would be complete without Steak n Shake. This photo is from a special trip with my "family," but I think we went about once a week. Oh frisco melts - how we love thee!

Finals Week - Spring 07. Somebody soapified Star Fountain!

I absolutely loved my freshman dorm room in Schwitzer. I was so sad to leave it that I went on an insane picture taking spree during the last week of school. It was pathetic... but now I can probably do a great blog post on what a Schwitz room looks like!

I spent my summer performing with the Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps from Casper, Wyoming. We toured the whole country and performed 3 or 4 times a week - so much fun. Here's the colorguard, aka the people I spent ALL my time with and love soooo much! Most of them are from Texas... I miss them!

Check out how tan I was by the end of the summer!

Even though I was all over the country this summer, I never felt too far away from home because there were always Butler friends around. Chris (the guy in the BU sweatshirt) is a drummer who marched with me for 2 summers in a row (and helped convince me to go to Butler!). Evan, in the middle, is also a music major at Butler and is the drum major for a different corps from South Carolina. This photo was taken right after he was named best drum major of all the corps in the nation! Go Bulldogs! : )

Drum Corps International Championships were in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl this year, so we got a day off to enjoy Cali. We spent an afternoon at Santa Monica Pier where MTV happened to be filming an episode of Next (see they bus behind us?) And yes, it is as fake as it looks on tv. The producers tell all the people what to say!

"Make new friends but keep the old"... even though I'm not home very much, I'm still close with some of the same friends I've had since junior high. Ashley (who goes to Augustana in IL) and Sarah (who goes to GWU in DC and took this picture) and I had a campout on my back porch before we all headed back to school in August.

Back at Butler, finally! Block Party is my favorite part of Welcome Week because you can find out about all the awesome student organizations. Here I am at the Butler Student Foundation (BUSF) table with Forrest (president) and Sara (secretary).

BUSF always helps out with Homecoming and this year Kate and I worked at Blue's Family Fun Fair - of course we had to test all the games ourselves before the kids got there!

My Big Sis Ariel was our Homecoming Queen candidate for Pi Phi. Here we are at the football game - she's the greatest!

Living up my nineteenth birthday with two of my best friends, Amy and Betsy.

Pi Phi and Sigma Nu teamed up to plant trees for Keep Indianapolis Beautiful this fall and had such a blast. My friends Jon, Ariel, Ross and I were an amazing team - we planted four trees and named them all after characters from Finding Nemo. This is Sharkbait!

Fall at Butler is so beautiful! I love our campus.

One of my favorite things about being a sophomore is getting a Little Brother for KKPsi. I first met Jimmy at camp when he was 16. Last year when I heard he was looking at Butler I was so excited that I did everything in my power to convince him to come here. Not only did he choose Butler, but he joined my fraternity and now he's my little!

The BUSF exec board puts so much hard work into creating a great experience for Butler students, alumni and prospectives, so it was so sweet that our advisor rewarded us by taking us along to Chicago to help with her conference. These three people with me are some of the most involved student leaders at Butler and I admire them all so much. I feel so lucky to consider them great friends, too!

Basketball was one of the greatest parts of 2007, and it looks like 2008 could be even better! "DAWG POUND! wooooooosh!"

Wow, 2007... my first full year at Butler and such an amazing one. So many great people, good memories, late nights, long days, and fun times.

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful 2008 and that I'll see some of you at Butler this year!

Costume Balls and Celebrity Sightings

ChristinaL — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:39:00 GMT

If there's one thing college students love, it's themed parties.

Seriously, is there anything better? (and if any of you are already themed party lovers, comment and share your ideas.)

There have been some fantastic ones already this semester...

Last weekend my sorority had a Masquerade Ball and I used my mad glue gun skillz to make a mask that was only semi-hideous! ha. My date's was entirely hideous, but I figured that since it was my formal and I was wearing the pretty dress, I was going to claim the good mask.

Sadly, because I was at Masquerade, I missed a fabulous 1920s themed party! (Alex was there though - he can tell you about it.) I was really bummed about this because I already had my costume ready since I was a flapper for Halloween.

Halloween at Butler is kind of funny, because no one really dresses up on the actual day, but the Saturday after Halloween was this HUGE all campus party that Sigma Nu hosts called Voodoo. Seitu was right when he said it is the party of the year! You should check out his pictures, because the SNu boys go all out decorating their house so that we can all have a massive dance party in their basement. I went with my friend KFod (Ivy from Batman), Paula (Snow White), Kim (50s movie star) and Katie (50s girl...popular decade). (Comment if you had a cool costume.) I was pretty much in love with my flapper dress because it was red with this fun fringe all over it. Fabulous for shaking it up on the dance floor...

which is where the celebrity sightings come into play!

okay, I may have led you on with the term "celebrity," but the Butler Men's Basketball team is the object of my undying admiration, so you can imagine how excited I was to see #5 junior Ben Slaton at the party!

Ben was dressed up as "a ladies' magnet" and had Barbie dolls glued all over him. Cute idea, although in my personal opinion #32 Drew Streicher and #34 Pete Campbell are the ladies' magnets of the team (watch them read this now... haha). But anyway, the point is that as much as I like to pretend that they are celebrities, those boys are actually pretty down to earth. Drew was in my Spanish class, Brian Ligon (who graduated last year) used to smile whenever we crossed paths in the science building every morning, and I saw our new freshman Matt Howard at C Club buying some dinner last week. They're really just normal college students like the rest of us - especially at a small school like Butler... they can't just hide out from the rest of the student body, nor would they want to. My sorority house had the team over for dinner last spring after the Sweet 16 and it was fun to just chat about tv shows and classes and realize how much they are just like us (except when they're on ESPN...haha).

Anyway, I feel pretty comfortable around most of the players, but on Wednesday, I was walking down the sidewalk by the Mall (our grassy area in the center of campus) and who should be walking towards me but AJ Graves, our star player! Now the thing is, we were the only two people in the whole area, so it was hard to avoid eye contact. However, I didn't know what to do, because I wanted to be like "Hey AJ!" but that would be creepy. Instead I just looked away and headed down my seperate path to the library. (What should one do in that situation? Smile? Wish him luck at the game vs. Indiana State? which we won, ps.)

However, looking back, I really wish I had stopped and had a conversation with him, because that would have been a super sweet blog entry for you all. I'll remember that for the future!!