Sorority Assigned to Fun Big Event Job for 10th Year in a Row

Despite the supposedly random process for assigning volunteers, sorority members from Pi Beta Phi were placed at a fun Big Event site for the 10th year in a row.

“My group went  to a ranch that had all sorts of animals,” sophomore Pi Phi member Landry Hall said. “We spent 10 minutes watching a ranch hand milk a cow, and then spent the rest of the time playing with the baby animals while a swarm of Big Event photographers documented our every move. It was great!”

Big Event records indicate that, for the past 10 years, this ranch has hosted exclusively students from Texas A&M Panhellenic on Big Event day. However, the top five job sites for sorority members are located in College Station’s Miramont neighborhood. “Last year, I truly felt that we were able to serve this community and practice our core values by helping this family in need by cleaning their guest house and talking with them over a catered meal from the country club,” Hall said. “They also happened to have three puppies, so it was great we were able to help them with that additional burden by publicizing their plight on Instagram.”

Posts from various Corps social media accounts indicate that, for many students, Big Event service is completely unrecognizable from what sorority members experience. “Every job that I’ve been to has involved intense labor in some way,” senior Corps member Sam Brockman said. “Each time, my outfit has worked non-stop for the whole four hours underneath the blazing sun, doing things like cleaning up horse poop, digging a hole for a massive koi fish pond, and hauling around cinder blocks.”

In response to allegations of favoritism, Big Event stated that no special placement system is in place and that ”all volunteers are equal as they say ‘Thank You’ to the community”. However, critics have pointed out that “some volunteers seem to be more equal than others.”

 

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