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Although
we prize our commitment to scholarship, we still love to have a good time!
Alpha Gamma Delta has four major dances each
year, in addition to weekly exchanges with fraternities on Thursday nights.
Our first dance of the year is our New Member Informal,
in October. The new members plan everything for this dance- theme, favors,
location, decorations, etc. The theme is only revealed to the rest of
the house a few days before the dance, even though we all try to find
it out before! In the past, some themes have been Biker/American Badass,
Rhinestone Rodeo, Jungle Boogie, and Alpha Gammadelic. It's always a great time, and
not just for us, but for our dates too!
The next dance is our Rose Formal, which celebrates
the Initiation of our new members in early December. We get so excited
finding dates and borrowing dresses, not to mention how happy we are to
initiate our newest sisters into AGD!
Spring Formal occurs during 2nd semester. It's just
like Prom, only better! It's held at a hotel (past Spring Formals have
been held at the Radison and the Chateau) and we are served a fabulous
dinner followed by a night of dancing and fun.
We close out the year with our annual Crush Dance, in
which each member gets to anonymously invite three dates. Our social chair
personally hands out invitations (conveniently glued onto a can of Orange
Crush) to our lucky guests. It's great for those secret crushes that we
all have! The atmosphere of this
dance is laid back and casual, and always a good time.
As fun as dances and formals are, social life at AGD
would not be complete without our exchanges. As said before, there is
usually one exchange a week, on Thursday nights, but of course they are
not mandatory, because many of us have early Friday classes.
Every semester, we have one exchange with each of the IWU fraternities.
There is always a theme, and it just gives us an excuse to find a fun
outfit hang out with some great guys. Some of last year's themes
were Survivor, Super heroes, 80's, New Years, and Thug Life, just to name
a few. Our infamous Theta Chi exchanges are Water Wars (a giant water
balloon fight in the fall) and Toga Party (in the spring) and these themes
always stay the same because everyone likes them so much.
We also have exchanges with ISU fraternities which are
always a blast. Last spring we had exchanges with Lambda
Chi, Delta Sigs, and Sig Tau.
However, we all know that we don't always need men to
have a good time! In past years, we have had exchanges with our friends
in the other sororities here, along with ISU Alpha Gams, usually on Thursdays
during "Friends." And of course some of us invite our friends
(either from other sororities or independents) to dances and events. Girls
do have more fun, right?
If you ever want to set up an exchange with us, please
contact our social chair at
309-556-3213. |
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Sisterhood
events are also important to us! Sometimes we just need to have some good
ole Alpha Gam bonding, and our sisterhood chair is always finding
ways for us to do so. In addition to our frequent movie nights and gossip
sessions, we also have scheduled events with the sole purpose of sisterhood.
Every January we have a Superbowl Party
in our awesome rec room with tons of food. There's always lots of yelling and cheering and friendly competition.
We also have a camping trip every fall right
when we move back into the house. It's held at Comlara Park by Lake Bloomington,and let me tell you, there is nothing funnier than a bunch of girls trying to put up tents. Nonetheless, it is such
a good time to sit around a fire, make s'mores, tell stories, and
look up at a gorgeous star-filled sky. Even the girliest of Alpha Gams
love our camping trip.
We also have seasonal events like pumpkin
carving, cookie decorating and egg-dyeing that always bring us together. It's great to have time to let loose and hang out with our sisters. |
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