This Greek Week, Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) raised over $1,300 and donated over 198 pounds of food to Laramie’s United Way.
Greek Week is a five-day competition and charity event which various members of the FSL community team up and participate in.
“This week is ultimately to raise funds and awareness for a great cause like United Way of Albany County. Not to mention, several of the local charities that our chapters support which are the beneficiaries of United Way as well, so the causes hit close to our chapters,” Kahl said.
Team Nickelback, consisting of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Delta Delta Delta, and Lamda Chi Alpha, won this year’s Greek Week competition.
“It felt great to win and see the amount of effort and time we all put in,” Sigma Alpha Epsilon member Landin Troutman said. “We had a quote at the beginning of the week before we started to lock in and get our minds right ‘If you ain’t first you’re last.’”
“It wasn’t just SAE, but Tri Delta, and Lambda Chi as well. They put in the same amount of work and I’m just happy for all of us. It was well deserved and a great team effort overall,” Troutman said.
During those events, the teams compete and try to win points so they can come out on top at the end of the week.
The events include a barbecue to kick off the week, an athletic tournament, a cardboard regatta, a canned food drive, a banner competition, an FSL feud, and talent, which ends the week.
“My favorite event is Talent. I love how the community comes together to have fun and show off their creativity as well,” Kappa Kappa Gamma member Sophia Fahleson said.
Due to COVID-19, FSL needed to change some things around this year to keep up.
All teams must have an equal number of men and women competing during an event, so all groups have an equal chance to win.
In previous years, if someone wanted to compete, they could. The FSL advisors did not count how many people were there.
Team members must register for the events they want to compete in before the event starts, so they know how many people to expect.
In years prior, if a member wanted to compete, they could show up and register the day of.
Last year, in the spring of 2021, all of the events were entirely online. And in spring 2020, the community didn’t have Greek Week at all. So every member of the FSL community was happy to be back competing this year.
“The transmission rates are low enough that we can come together more readily for these types of events and to demonstrate our values as a community more publicly and unified,” FSL advisor Erik Kahl said.
