This year, USC\u2019s sororities and fraternities are planning a family weekend separate from the university\u2019s official family weekend \u2014 one not taking place over Halloween.<\/p>\n
Greek Family Weekend<\/a> is planned to run Friday and Saturday, including a daytime \u201cRowchella\u201d music festival and individual tailgates ahead of No. 12 USC football\u2019s marquee matchup with No. 20 Oregon, according to a website promoting the event run by the Panhellenic Council, the USC Interfraternity Council and the University Park Interfraternity Council. <\/p>\n The IFC includes the six affiliated fraternities at USC while the Panhellenic Council encompasses the nine affiliated sororities. The University Park Interfraternity Council includes fraternities not affiliated with the university.<\/p>\n Annenberg Media reached out to the presidents of the Phanehellenic and Interfraternity councils but did not hear a response in time for publication.<\/p>\n The University is not affiliated with the weekend plans, according to the website.<\/p>\n USC\u2019s official family weekend is scheduled for October 29 to November 1, notably including Halloween, which is on the same day as arguably USC\u2019s biggest football game of the season against No. 7 Ohio State.<\/p>\n In previous family weekends, Greek life organizations would often invite parents to parties. USC also typically hosts affiliated events like open houses, performances and tailgating.<\/p>\n Ziggy Wood, a member of sorority Alpha Delta Pi who will perform as part of Friday\u2019s \u201cRowchella\u201d lineup as Ziggy Sixx, said she wished there was only one family weekend, but understood why the decision was made.<\/p>\n \u201cI think across Greek Row, pretty much everyone was upset that family weekend was going to be on Halloween, just because it\u2019s Halloween,\u201d said Wood, a senior studying the performance of popular music.<\/p>\n Wood, who has previously performed on campus including on Annenberg Radio News\u2019 \u201cLive From the Halo,\u201d said she is excited to perform at \u201cRowchella,\u201d which the weekend\u2019s website says is expected to run from noon to 7 p.m. Friday with tickets costing $20.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m playing with my longtime band members who are from USC \u2026 One of them is my sorority sister,\u201d Wood said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do mostly songs of mine, and then a few fun covers that I haven\u2019t done before. That\u2019ll go over well with the families.\u201d <\/p>\n The Saturday tailgates will be hosted by individual fraternities, while the councils are running \u201cRowchella.\u201d<\/p>\n Proceeds from the $20 \u201cRowchella\u201d tickets will go towards USC\u2019s Joint Educational Project, which connects student volunteers with local schools and communities, according to the weekend\u2019s promotional website.<\/p>\n The USC Intersorority Parents Council will also be hosting a speaker series and an all-row mixer this weekend.<\/p>\n Adalie Monterosa, a sophomore studying economics, said she wasn\u2019t surprised that Greek life is separating from the university\u2019s family weekend. <\/p>\n \u201cIt didn\u2019t really surprise me because I feel like Greek life is very exclusive, so it made sense to me that [sororities and fraternities] would want something they could celebrate within their own groups,\u201d Monterosa said.<\/p>\n Yasmina Mayo, a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, said that even though the events are marketed toward the parents of those in Greek life, the events are attracting other students. She said many of her friends outside of Greek life have opted to have their families visit this weekend to attend the Oregon game and avoid Halloween weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone is treating this as a regular family weekend,\u201d said Mayo, a junior studying film production. <\/p>\n Edited by Sean Campbell<\/a> and Miranda Huang<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year, USC\u2019s sororities and fraternities are planning a family weekend separate from the university\u2019s official family weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22325,186808,1853,186809,186810,48,52,51,47,50,49,186811,186812,186813,186814,113259,186815,3533,186816],"class_list":["post-475293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-annenbergmedia","tag-architecture","tag-fratrow","tag-greeklife","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-michaelchow","tag-nikon","tag-nikonz6","tag-sigmachi","tag-suburbs","tag-universityofsoutherncalifornia","tag-usc","tag-z6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}