Who said Sing-Song was Greek only?

On April 4th, the annual Sing Song competition was held in McFarlin Auditorium. This year’s production was call “A Night on Broadway” and features 7 performances comprised of 13 groups. For those who don’t know, Sing Song is a competition that involves singing, dancing, and acting. This year each group had to perform their interpretations of different Broadway musicals, and all the groups practiced hard for months in order to be ready.

However, Sing Song is not really a campus-wide event. All of friends who are in sororities attended, and they were expecting 1,500 people to be there. But, I also have many friends who are non-Greek, and none of them went. Why? They all said that it was a sorority/fraternity event so they didn’t want to go. While the contest is mainly comprised of Greek organizations, does not make it a Greek function. Sororities and fraternities usually just the ones that enter.

Sororities and fraternities are often accused of being close-minded and exclusive, but I think that my non-Greek friends were behaving the same way. They were not wiling to attend simply because they did not wan to support Greek life. However, the group that ended up winning almost all of the awards was Delta Gamma and the men’s swim team. The only non-Greek organization in the show.

This shows that the event was in no way centered around or biased towards the Greek community. I think that sometimes those who are not in sororities and fraternities and say that Greeks should be open-minded and accepting, often need to work on these traits themselves.

Sing Song 2008