Risky Business and a Gas Menagerie

Boy, it's been a busy week! This past one was my first as official Phi Rho Risk Manager, and I am so excited to hold the position! Our bylaws dictate that PSR Risk Managers should compile a presentation once per semester to the chapter, but don't specify what the presentations should contain. Because there's such a freedom in choosing presentation material, I am going to bring the oft silent and forgotten Risk Manager position to a whole new level. This week I spoke in our chapter meeting about some health-related managerial topics and will continue to tell everyone at least one Risky Business Tip each week. I even talked with a representative of the Tae Kwon Do club about partnering to teach the sisters some self-defense, so I know the Risk Manager presentation this year is going to literally KICK BUTT! I hope that instead of sitting through a litany of facts this year at the presentation, the Phi Rhos will be asking for more, more, more!

I've also been busy this week in supporting Jenn and her role of informal recruitment chair. Before we flyer'd the middle of campus this weekend, we discussed event ideas, witty titles, and explanations to put on flyers to get the campus revved up for our rush. I'm most looking forward to our Balloon Animal Blowout event (because who doesn't want to learn how to make balloon animals???), but I'm pretty pumped for our Jazzercise/Yoga/Dessert Night, too ("Happy body. Happy mind. Happy stomach." My oh my, what a clever slogan, don'tcha think?). Phi Rho is one of only two sororities this year who are eligible to present a fall semester rush, and only in Phi Rho can you have your dessert and eat it, too....beside a gas menagerie!

Colleen

Tattoos and Pudding and Toilets, Oh My!

Temporary tattoos + cool freshman = a top notch Welcome Days event.
So things got off to a bit of a slow start at the Greek Carnival (as seems to be the norm) as freshmen wandered around but refused to commit to actually participating in any of the activities. But before long girls and guys were crowding around the table to pick their tattoos. We had several male tramp-stamp recipients. I proved what a great big I am by abandoning Chen to put a sparkly butterfly on some guy's VERY lower back... it was quite amusing to watch her hold the wet paper towel there for 30 seconds while turned in the COMPLETE other direction so as not to have to look at him. Good times. But more importantly, we had quite a few freshman engineering girls show interest in who we are and what we do.

Following the Carnival some of us returned to the house to begin preparing for Taste of Greek Life. Nicole had the excellent idea of making cups of dirt for the freshmen. This idea proved somewhat more challenging due to the fact that Target had only Cook and Serve pudding. What the heck Target!?!?!?! Another hurdle occurred when I failed to read the instructions on the side of the box and missed the part where you have to boil over MEDIUM heat. Fortunately, we caught this mistake, only ruining a few boxes of pudding in the meantime. But boiling milk and pudding mix over medium heat takes a LONG time. So almost 150 servings of pudding were made, ladled into cups, cookied and gummy wormed by midnight... However, the whole ordeal had a very amusing ending. Anna decided it would be a bad idea to pour burnt liquid pudding (from those initial batches) in the sink, so we instead had to flush it. At midnight, flushing pudding is a VERY entertaining ordeal...