The Tartan Online: “Carnegie Mellon University’s largest student-run fundraising event,” boasted the program for Greek Sing 2012. With over 1,000 participants from the Greek community representing 17 different chapters, the event managed to raise over $55,000 for The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh. The philanthropy award, given to the house that raised the most money on its own, was awarded to Delta Gamma for raising over $8,000.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Greek Sing shines with amusing performances
The Tartan Online: “Carnegie Mellon University’s largest student-run fundraising event,” boasted the program for Greek Sing 2012. With over 1,000 participants from the Greek community representing 17 different chapters, the event managed to raise over $55,000 for The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh. The philanthropy award, given to the house that raised the most money on its own, was awarded to Delta Gamma for raising over $8,000.
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Although I did not get a chance to see Greek Sing, I think it is great that people who are not within the School of Drama community at Carnegie Mellon are performing. It doesn't necessarily matter if it was as polished or put together as a typical SOD production - that's not the point. The point is that they are doing something that is fun and enjoyable for them, entertaining others on campus, and supporting their respective sororities. I am no involved in Greek life myself, but I know people that are, and I know that the organizations support worthwhile causes and provide involvement opportunities for all of their members.
Kassondra brings up a wonderful point. Greek Sing is one of the largest events for the Greek community and not only brings out a wonderful performance, but something that is enjoyable for everyone. The idea of phlanthorpy in greek life benefits the community through service and fundraising, but Greek Sings helps benefit the community two fold - both through fundraising and art. Creating this amazing event involves a lot of work and a lot of people, but the event stretches further then just the creation of art, but also giving back to the community. Its glad to see people create art to help others.
More than just that non performance majors get the opportunity to perform, I think that what should be recognized is how much money was raised for an amazing cause because of this event. This seems like such a fun solution to a community event because it is both fun and involves so many people from the CMU community. There's just something about a giant group of people putting embarrassment behind them in order to achieve a goal that puts smiles on faces. Congrats to all involved.
First of all, go DG! Greek Sing is ultimately about raising money to help kids, and DG made an amazing fundraising contribution! This was my first time seeing Greek Sing. I was surprised by how great some of the performances were! Whether every note was sung perfectly or not, everyone put on an entertaining show. It's great to see people perform who don't normally, and it's also a nice reminder that singing, dancing, and acting are meant to be FUN and don't always need to be judged so seriously. I can't say that I agree entirely with the results of Greek sing, but I can say that all of the top-ranking organizations had something in their show that they did very well! I think that DG did a great job with storytelling and vocals, Theta had some wonderful dancing in their piece, and Alpha Chi Omega's set was extremely creative. I am so glad that Carnegie Mellon continues to support this event so that the Greek community can have some fun putting on a show while making a great contribution to the greater Pittsburgh community! The woman from the Children's Institute was so pleasantly surprised when she was presented with such a huge check at the end of the night...that's what it's all about! Helping others and having fun while doing it!
Greek Sing taught me a valuable lesson about not introducing things to a show on performance night that you haven't rehearsed, because no matter how throughly you think you've covered everything, something unexpected will surprise you. And then you might be the crew member standing awkwardly at the back center of the stage, looking stupid, after the rest of the crew and sets are off, and the cast does a couple more dance numbers. And then you might end up searching for tape in a blackout after everyone else is offstage. Just maybe.
Well Rachael, I doubt many people saw anything like that, so I think you are safe. ;) Greek Sing is a major event for the Greek Community, even for the non-competative groups. It is great to see all the preparation that was put into the competative houses (who compete in performance and fund-raising), but it is nice to see how the rest of the community reaches out for the event. Even Alpha Kappa Alpha, which is part of the Devine Nine and based at Pitt (but includes CMU students), came to do a performance. A lot of the campus who party with the Greeks and are friends with Greeks come out for the event and it is a great way for people both within and outside the Greek Community to get an idea of what Greek students can do for the community.
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