The latest trend among Greek life at Georgia Southern University is the game “Who has the better, bigger, and more famous performer at their events. 

 

This “game” has been going on for quite some time. However, each year the competition becomes tougher and tougher, and the performers that hired are by the Greek organizations are getting better and better. 

 

No one likes to be outshined, or lose. If you wanna be the best you’ve gotta have best is what the motto seems to be.

 

The elected social chairs are who are in charge of finding, hiring, and paying the performers.

 

 Emily Hunt, Alpha Delta Pi’s social chair, said, “A manager actually contacted me early on in my term letting me know he could book performers for me, so I would always go through him.”

 

Taylor Sullivan, an alumna of Georgia Southern and previous social chair for Kappa Delta said, “Getting in touch with the performers took a lot of researching.”

 

It was until she found out that her sorority sister’s father was the manager of the Ying Yang Twins, this made booking performers from her on out much easier.

 

“I would mostly contact him for help and then he would give me options/ names to contact,” she said. 

 

For the brothers of Pi Kappa Phi, social chair Conner LiButti went through a booking agency for some of their previous events.

 

“We get in contact with performers usually via booking agencies. For Gorilla Zoe I used the company Frat Shows to get in contact with a rapper,” Libutti said.

 

All of the performers that are hired make a very good living, so how do these Greek organizations afford them? That answer is easy. The social chairs are given social funds from the money that the members pay monthly, which makes up the budget.

 

Sullivan said that budgeting was the hardest part.

 

 Emily Hunt gave us her budget that she was given. For each social she has around $500, semis and other bigger events she has around $1,500, and for formal she get to spend around $25,000.

 

 The main part of the budget would mostly go to the performer said Sullivan. “I would also have to keep in mind that the performer might request food, supplies, etc. that I would have to work into the budget. Also I could not forget about the venue and if the venue had to rent equipment.

 

She said every performer she has booked has had a list of request that need to be ready for there arrival.

 

 Sullivan said Bubba Sparxxx had quite the extensive list. He wanted turkey, ham and roast beef Boars Head deli meat with white and wheat bread and the options of mustard and mayo. With the sandwiches he also wanted chips and pretzels. To drink he wanted a bottle of Rose', Patron, Grey Goose. 3 12packs of Bud Light and any bombs or shots from the bar at the time wanted.” 

 

Some big name performers that have come to Georgia Southern to perform for Greek life are Travis Porter, Waka Flocka, Gorrilla Zoe, Sam Hunt, Cole Swindell, Crime Mob, Georgia Florida Line, Dem Franchize Boyz, and Cherub.

 

Alone, Sullivan has booked quite an impressive set of performers. In the past she has gotten Bubba Sparxxx, Ying Yang Twins, Crime Mob, Florida Georgia Line, and Three 6 Mafia.

Megan O’Shea, a sister of Kappa Delta, said, “My favorite social was our band party during homecoming sophomore year. Florida-Georgia Line came and performed for us, and I was able to get up to front row while they performed. Their music really took off after that so it was really cool to have a private concert like that with them.”

 

When choosing a performer the social chairs also have to choose a theme for the social event.

 

Emily Hunt said, “I typically base the genre of the artist on the social theme but it is usually hip hop or country, which are the two favored music types in my sorority.”

 

The list of performers at these Greek events is pretty impressive. It should be interesting to see who all has come in the next five years. However, is it really worth spending these large sums of money just to outshine the competition?