The most spirited week of the year for KSC’s Greek Life community has come to a close as the 2026 edition of Greek Week took place throughout last week.
When the week’s events concluded on Friday, April 10, the Alpha Sigma Phi (ASig) fraternity and the Delta Phi Epsilon (DPhiE) sorority were announced as the winners of Greek Week for the fifth year in a row.
Panhellenic Council President and Delta Phi Epsilon member senior Amarrah Gates explained what Greek Week is and what the annual tradition represents.
“Greek Week is a chance for all the organizations on campus to hang out and do activities,” Gates said. “It’s just a time for us all to come together, see each other, get to know each other and get to know the new members of all the organizations.”
“I think it’s a really good opportunity for everyone to spend time together,” she added. “People in Greek Life tend to be very busy, the people who want to get involved with organizations tend to want to get involved with organizations across the board…This is a really nice way for us all to have a designated week with activity where we can all get to see each other.”
Gates also highlighted how the timing of the event strengthens its purpose.
“Both the fraternities and sororities just finished recruitment, so we all have a bunch of new members. It’s a nice chance for them to get introduced to the Greek community and us to meet all of them,” Gates said.
This year’s Greek Week activities were primarily organized by the Panhellenic Council’s Vice President for Programming and Service junior Haley Hagler and the Interfraternity Council’s Programming Chair sophomore Zack King, who explained what the responsibility of planning Greek Week was like for them.
“It means a lot,” said King. “It means we can just bring all the [organizations] together and create a week where we can bond on experiences and events and carry it forward for future semesters as well.”
“It was definitely a lot of planning and hard work, but I’m so grateful for the experience,” added Hagler. “I feel like everyone had a great time and that’s all that we’re in it for. I really love Greek Week and I hope it continues in the future.”
The events of Greek Week stretched across four different days this year. Greek Life members got physical in Field Day activities on Monday, competed in a game of Family Feud on Tuesday, participated in the Day of Service on Thursday and performed on the Mabel Brown Room stage in Friday’s Airband competition.
Gates described the events that took place on the first two days of Greek Week.
“Field day was yesterday, [April 8] it is the more physical games. We played kickball, dodgeball, tug of war, a three-legged race, volleyball and a couple more activities and today [April 9] is Family Feud, which is like the TV show,” said Gates.
Moving into the second half of the week, King said the Greek Life community put together 75 gift bags to donate to the children’s hospital at Cheshire Medical Center on Thursday’s Day of Service event.
“I grew up donating and doing community service for others,” King said. “I’m just really happy as an [organization] to be able to donate and give back and to work with others to try and provide for the younger community.”
“As a Greek [Life] community, we always look for ways to give back,” said Hagler. “Each one of our [organizations] has our own philanthropy to give back to, and that’s one of the biggest reasons I joined an org. It’s really just to give back to the community that gives to us a lot. The children’s hospital was a suggestion by my little Sam Nightingale, and I couldn’t be happier with the decision to give to the children’s hospital.”
The week of events concluded on Friday night with the Airband competition, an annual Greek Week staple that saw members of ASig, DPhiE and Phi Sigma Sigma representing their organizations with dance performances on the Mabel Brown Room stage. Hagler said the Airband event has been a Greek Week tradition for at least 20 years.
“It’s just a fun way to end Greek Week, because we have the more sporty day of Field Day at the beginning and this is more of the artsy, dancey side of it,” said Hagler. “I would never change Airband. I think it’s so much fun getting to see what these [organizations] work on for months, because I know DPhiE has been spending months working on their routine.”
King added that this was his first time experiencing Airband and Greek Week as a whole.
“Being a new active member, this Greek Week experience is definitely new to me,” he said. “I would definitely say that it’s a new atmosphere with everything going on, but it was very fun, very interactive and it was entertaining, to say the least.”
Senior and ASig member Anthony Lupo said the Airband competition was his favorite part of this year’s Greek Week festivities.
“My favorite part is always Airband,” he said. “I feel like it is a really good opportunity to get the Greek [Life] community together, which lacks over the course of the year, but it’s really nice to have friendly competition.”
Lupo also explained what it was like to participate in Greek Week and to be a member of the week’s winning fraternity.
“It’s exciting,” he said. “You walk in and you think, ‘I’m not going to enjoy this, it’s all these other people I’m not going to know and I might dislike just for being part of another organization,’ but at the end of the day, we’re all Keene State students. We’re all here for competition. We’re all ready to go at the end of it.”
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