When spring semester rolls around, we Greeks get a little restless. And what better way to let our energy out than with a little "friendly" competition?

And when you think Greek week, you think dodgeball. Tug of war. Money wars. All great ways to show over the top spirit for a team made up of multiple organizations that was just thrown together at the beginning of the week.

What you don't think of when you think of Greek week are things like resume workshops, career fairs and special speakers, all required events that are worth points towards your team's overall total.

Which explains the generally pissed off attitude that all the Greeks at Rollins College have been left with over last week's Greek week festivities.

Because in addition to our normal events such as the aforementioned dodgeball tournament, tug of war and a themed relay race and cookout, we had events like "Greek Week Battle of the Bands Presents: James Robilotta" and "Greek Week Battle of the Bands Presents: Career and Internship Expo."

No offense to James Robilotta or the importance of getting your name and your resume out there to potential employers, but is this what Greek week is all about?

Instead of being what Greek week began as, a week to celebrate the entire Greek community and all the friendships and connections that have resulted and continue to result from it, Greek week this year became a way for other departments throughout the school to promote their own agendas.

Instead of having more events in line with this year's theme, we had to go to these unrelated events that forced us, in the name of competition, to participate in events that seemed beneficial to the school's reputation for student events.

And I get that this seems like whining. These are great things that were organized for all of us Greeks, and they're helpful in the long run. We should be thanking our administration for bringing events like these to the college. Especially for us.

But during Greek week?

Because in reality, what the school is doing is manipulating how competitive Greek week is by implementing this point system with events that the school feels don't get a big enough turnout.

It's a way to put some teaching into Greek week, and a lot of people think that's a novel concept. But if you want to know what the Greeks themselves think, we don't appreciate FSL manipulating our competitive spirit. While we agree that these talks and expos are important, beneficial and something to be thankful for, we can't condone eliminating an opportunity for some healthy competition for promotion of another department's agenda.