Greek organizations to join together for service week

Greek Life of GCSU is coming together to give back to the community through the Big Greek Give Oct. 3 through Oct. 7.

According to the Facebook group, “The Big Greek Give is a week-long service project in which students from all walks of campus life come to give with our Greek community. It is meant to encourage community, friendship, and above all philanthropy. Each organization is actively trying to give throughout the year, but during this week all Greek organizations will come together to dish it out for the community,”

All week long from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., sororities and fraternities will be handing out the schedule of events and collecting donations by the Arts & Sciences fountain. Everyone can do their part by donating items including blankets, clothing, school supplies, can tabs, canned goods, children’s books and old text books and spare change for the Animal Rescue Foundation.

“The Big Greek Give was started last year by Tiffany Cannon in an act to unify all of the sororities and fraternities on campus. She just came up with the idea and thought it would be a good way to let the student body see how the Greeks work together on each other’s philanthropies,” Gant said.

Each day will have a different theme, which will begin Oct. 3, with a Greek Clean-Up at Bartram Forest, barbecue picnic and a pet walk in the afternoon for Earth and Environment Day. Oct. 4 is Education System day; they will be recording people reading books on tape to send to children learning how to read, and an 8 p.m. fashion show at Magnolia Ballroom.

The fashion show will consist of clothing from local businesses including Maggie Lanes, French Vill’Edge, Villane’s, and Jack and Darcy. There will also be performances from the Swing Dance Club and contestants from Milledgeville Idol. Tickets for the fashion show are $2 and all proceeds will go to ARF.

Oct. 5 is Ribbon Day when all of the sororities and fraternities will be handing out ribbons for their respective philanthropies. There will also be Greek Boot Camp at 6 p.m., which is a 45 minute-long routine that is being run through the Wellness Depot for Health and Sickness Day. Oct. 6 is Hunger and Poverty Day where there will be a Project Linus blanket making project and a kick competition at the soccer game. There will also be a Canned Good Tailgate Competition at 5 p.m. at the West Campus Pavilion. All the sororities and fraternities will have a truck to fill and will be competing to see who can collect the most canned goods.

On Oct. 7 there will be letter writing to soldiers, diversity awareness and women’s issues awareness for Culture Competence Day. The week will end with a celebration performance by Caleb Johnson, Graham Williams and Drew Thomas at The Velvet Elvis Supper Club that night.

“This is the second year, (The Big Greek Give) is a lot different than last year,” senior Macy McCullough said. “Last year each group had a different day more focused on their philanthropy, and this year it is more focused on everyone working together as a whole, Greek unity.”

All of the Greek philanthropy chairs on campus have been working very hard to put this week together and hope everyone can come out and support the cause. A schedule of the events can be picked up at the table outside of the Arts & Sciences or on Facebook under The Big Greek Give.

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