The only dance I can find online: AEPi, Triangle and AGD - 5th place, which was actually pretty good. But someone send me the Alpha Phi video so I can post it.
So half because I was curious and half because I felt obligated to cover it, I went to Variety last night. I paid an absurd $10 for a ticket (tell me that's going to charity at least) and embedded myself with team Nagano, who I was disappointed to find out was NOT named after the god-like competitor in "Ninja Warrior," and I listened to the Fijis and Tri Delts conference about who cheated during the week and who was going to win tonight.
Filling Hill auditorium with Greeks is insane. Even more insane is telling them that yelling all night will win them some sort of prize. I'm not sure if it was just where I was sitting because of the acoustics, but the "U. S. A." chant from the Pike-led team Atlanta is still ringing in my ears this morning. All the teams seem to be made up of one real frat, one real sorority, one tiny frat and one multicultural frat. Diversity in action!
Sing sucks, let me just throw that out there. Only like four people in the entire thing could actually hit correct notes, and I was particularly surprised by how tone-deaf Kappa was, like ear-shatteringly so. Strange. But Variety is when I actually started to wake up.
After a while all the routines started to blur together, and I saw that "spin the girl around and hang her on your waist" move in at least four routines. Memorable performances I still remember today include surprisingly entertaining showings from AGD and Pi Phi (yeah, go figure), a bunch of Tri Delts doing handsprings and a troupe of Alpha Phi girls being eye-poppingly flexible. And really, it's no surprise who won. The Phi's bendiness took home the crown with some sort of jungle themed routine, and that'll be posted as soon as someone sends it to me. Yeah, Chi Phi was on that team, but they shouldn't disillusion themselves thinking it was them and not the hot girls doing the splits that pulled off the win.
Then at the very, very end (seriously, get rid of Sing, the damn thing is 3.5 hours long) there were the awards for the week and it was a back and forth between Team Torino (Sig Ep, AKA, SDT) and Team Atlanta (Pike, Shady, DG). And of course Pike won, come on. Noticeably absent from the night were Sigma Kappa, Theta Chi and SAE, whose members are surely going to start posting comments here saying how no one gives a shit about Greek Week. Well team Atlanta certainly did as I've already seen a load of comments and status updates flaunting their victory, and I'm sure they'll be celebrating it for the next year or so.
So uhh congrats Pike, you have empirically proven that you are the best frat on campus, as if there was ever any question, and you brought Shady and DG along with you on your coattails. I might just have to rewrite the list now!
Also: Hottest Girl on Campus Contest is a go, and will start on Monday. Keep nominating!
Filling Hill auditorium with Greeks is insane. Even more insane is telling them that yelling all night will win them some sort of prize. I'm not sure if it was just where I was sitting because of the acoustics, but the "U. S. A." chant from the Pike-led team Atlanta is still ringing in my ears this morning. All the teams seem to be made up of one real frat, one real sorority, one tiny frat and one multicultural frat. Diversity in action!
Sing sucks, let me just throw that out there. Only like four people in the entire thing could actually hit correct notes, and I was particularly surprised by how tone-deaf Kappa was, like ear-shatteringly so. Strange. But Variety is when I actually started to wake up.
After a while all the routines started to blur together, and I saw that "spin the girl around and hang her on your waist" move in at least four routines. Memorable performances I still remember today include surprisingly entertaining showings from AGD and Pi Phi (yeah, go figure), a bunch of Tri Delts doing handsprings and a troupe of Alpha Phi girls being eye-poppingly flexible. And really, it's no surprise who won. The Phi's bendiness took home the crown with some sort of jungle themed routine, and that'll be posted as soon as someone sends it to me. Yeah, Chi Phi was on that team, but they shouldn't disillusion themselves thinking it was them and not the hot girls doing the splits that pulled off the win.
Then at the very, very end (seriously, get rid of Sing, the damn thing is 3.5 hours long) there were the awards for the week and it was a back and forth between Team Torino (Sig Ep, AKA, SDT) and Team Atlanta (Pike, Shady, DG). And of course Pike won, come on. Noticeably absent from the night were Sigma Kappa, Theta Chi and SAE, whose members are surely going to start posting comments here saying how no one gives a shit about Greek Week. Well team Atlanta certainly did as I've already seen a load of comments and status updates flaunting their victory, and I'm sure they'll be celebrating it for the next year or so.
So uhh congrats Pike, you have empirically proven that you are the best frat on campus, as if there was ever any question, and you brought Shady and DG along with you on your coattails. I might just have to rewrite the list now!
Also: Hottest Girl on Campus Contest is a go, and will start on Monday. Keep nominating!
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"who are, who are. who are we?" Posted 04/04/2008 12:00 PMReply
YEA SARAJEVO Posted 04/04/2008 12:09 PMReply
APHI <3 CHI PHI and SIGMA NU Posted 04/04/2008 12:30 PMReply
and of course, it was all capped off with a PIKE win. Posted 04/04/2008 12:42 PMReply
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wtgROFxyxOY Posted 04/04/2008 1:22 PMReply
that kid just likes to hear his own voice and used GW 08 as his own personal power trip. Posted 04/04/2008 2:24 PMReply
frat or not frat? Posted 04/04/2008 2:52 PMReply
Sing pretty much just sucked... Posted 04/04/2008 4:02 PMReply
Berlin Vareity kicked ass
congrats to Alpha Phi for their repeat. Posted 04/04/2008 6:35 PMReply
it was nice to see someone besides ADPi win this year Posted 04/04/2008 6:39 PMReply
i agree that alpha phis deserved the win and i agree with the placements of the other teams but in rebuttal to the comment above i think that agd's did a nice job especially for a house that gets dogged constantly. Posted 04/05/2008 09:11 AMReply
Has Bash ****ers Posted 04/05/2008 3:49 PMReply
Did they do it because they had a shot at winning greek week? **** No. Did they do it because Alpha Phis are attractive? You'd be surprised but almost every guy that did it this year was a returning guy from last year and/or had a girlfriend... many of them just wanted to have fun and meet some down to earth greek dancers. I'm just sick of all the bullshit that goes on the in the greek community... Why does everyone have to bicker, blame, and fuel the fire of meaningless arguements?
The Chi Phis, Sig Nus and Alpha Phis got to know each other really well, and we all said, whether we placed or not, the last 2 hours we danced together could not change the shit that went down for the 2 months before them. And it's hard to believe but that's the straight truth. Quit being so cliche greek; having to bicker upon greek stereotypes and the inter-house bullshit. I'm sick of it, Chi Phi is sick of it, Theta Xi is sick of it, FIJI is sick of it... I think a lot of every house is sick of the shit yet it still continues year after year. Step up and take intiative and shut your own mouth and those of your brothers/sisters. It's about time the greek community become just that... a community. How much better would it be that way? You may think it's Idealistic, but I've seen it at many other campuses.
I just wish something could go down that would do for all (or the majority of) the fraternities and sororities what Variety did for the team that won Variety.... Because in the end, you may think it was the Alpha Phis that won it for Berlin, but it was how they, Sig Nu and Chi Phi got together that won it. They went out and danced like it was their last time together.... And ****ing rocked shit. Posted 04/05/2008 4:04 PMReply
I'm not gonna act like there arent frat ****s and sorority bitches in the Greek system, but lets get real, there's kids like that in every house. But whatever, there's a of cool kids in every house too. For anyone like me that cringes when they read the bs on this website and wishes that they didnt have to be embarassed to tell their non-greek friends that their in a fraternity/sorority, dont even read this shit, dont let this **** try to define you by how he describes your house. We all go the University of Michigan and are all relatively successful/interesting kids. I mean how the **** does our community, one that does so many cool things and has so many cool diverse people have such a terrible reputation? It's cause of **** like you, JQ.
Well, wait.. on second thought I guess its our own fault. I dont know how, but we let you passively talk shit about every one of our houses. I have respect for what youve done, I mean you have really made a name for yourself by feeding off the stereotypes and competition that exists between houses. It would just be cool if we took pride in ourselves as a community for once and didnt let ourselves get played by you, you ****ing cocksucker. Posted 04/05/2008 7:28 PMReply
You're hilarious, but a total hypocrit. You write about the ****s of Greek life and haven't met most... which makes you an **** yourself. Posted 04/05/2008 8:03 PMReply
also, what did the person above mean when you said you weren't in those chapters for a reason??? Posted 04/06/2008 01:38 AMReply
top $ raising college relay, leaders and the best! Posted 04/06/2008 08:51 AMReply
Was it Sarajevo that had Soulja Boy in their variety routine? I think whatever team it was, they should have been automatically disqualified from Greek Week just for doing the Soulja Boy dance. Wow...that was original. Posted 04/06/2008 11:36 AMReply
While it may be true that some houses are philanthropic because they have to be, or because they want to make themselves look good, nobody can EVER argue that Michigan Greeks don't do more for their community more than any other group of people on campus. Altruism is impossible anyway, so if you're giving back... your reasoning doesn't change that fact. Posted 04/06/2008 12:55 PMReply
Im not gonna say a male judge wouldn't be completely unbiased when it comes to looks, but pretty much every girl in the whole competition was good looking regardless if they are in a top tier house or not b/c you can't do that stuff without being pretty fit. Posted 04/06/2008 1:33 PMReply
Even between 2 frats that's pretty ridiculous Posted 04/06/2008 2:24 PMReply
Alpha Phi is ridic. Posted 04/06/2008 5:54 PMReply
Then in the semifinals torino complains about it after we beat them. The steering officials make up a final decision that we win and torino should file a complaint. then the sigep steering official makes up a different story saying we asked him about something totally different and they then make a new final decision. One of our guys called the official out on the fact that you cant change a final decision.
The next day steering sent out an email to reps about a "spirit amendment" saying that teams can be disquailified for those type of incidents but the email clearly stated the amendment would start being enforced on Monday (3/31) therefore the kickball incident should not have disqualified us. Posted 04/06/2008 7:09 PMReply
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=604413468423
#1 Posted 04/06/2008 11:22 PMReply
Team Paris needs to grow up and accept that this idea of a conspiracy against them does not hold water. What the hell would the GDI variety judges and the ADPi rules and points people have to gain from 'screwing' Paris? Maybe, the team is just frustrated because they were simpily outdone.
Greek Week is a charity event, if you are truly upset... perhaps you need to grow a pair. In addition, Pike only had one steering member.. so the conspiricy to help ATL is worthless. Bars close at 2:00AM in Michigan... I suggest that you go out and have fun insted of fuming about Greek Week, the 'big bad steering' people, and how your team was cheated. Posted 04/07/2008 11:30 PMReply
-ADPhi Posted 04/09/2008 10:48 PMReply