Lingo 101: Social Calendar

A Social Calendar is an internal memo that alerts a frat or sorority’s members about their upcoming events in the quarter. The easiest way to make one is in Microsoft Word using a table. Remember not to show other people your social calendar, especially other frats. However, if you look at a sorority’s social calendar, then you can find out when other frat’s parties are. This information will allow you to plan around those events.

Your Social Calendar should have a variety of events. You should have weekly events with sororities, an occasional dinner with a sorority (if you have a chef), one or two date parties, and a few larger parties. The Social Calendar will change every term, so you will have three calendars on the quarter system and two calendars on the semester system.

Your Social Calendar will depend greatly on the type of school you go to. If you go to a school that has a popular football or basketball team, then you want to be careful when planning events on gamedays (Thursdays and Saturdays). Since I do not go to your school, you willl have to be the judge on which nights students go out and party. For some schools, everyone goes out on Thursday and Friday nights, but not on Saturdays. For other schools, Wednesday could be the biggest party night of the week. It all depends so adjust your calendars accordingly.

Lingo 101: Social Chair

What is a Social Chair?

The social chair is the face of your fraternity that is seen by the rest of the Greek and campus community. The social chair is responsible for planning smaller social gatherings (themed gatherings) and larger parties. The social chair should be: responsible, creative, outgoing, tactful, diligent, and intelligent. If you, the social chair, have all of these qualities, then you have the potential to be a good social chair. If you lack in any of these qualities, then I highly suggest that you work on these qualities, as it will make your life much easier.

For some of your frat brothers, the main reason they joined the fraternity was for the parties. So in some sense, you have the most important job in the house. Socials are a great way to bring brothers together and get them girls. The social chair is rarely praised, but always criticized. I hope this doesn’t scare you from being a social chair. So now that you understand your role, here’s how to plan for your responsibilities.