Sigma Tau Gamma Hosted Their Annual “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” This Past Tuesday
Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity hosted their annual event, “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” in Pollak Theatre on Tuesday, March 26 at 10:00 pm.
Sigma Tau Gamma has been hosting this event for six years. Tickets were five dollars in advance, seven dollars at the door. STG advertised this event through “posters and Facebook. We also sold tickets prior to the event in the Student Center,” said Mike Bateman, member of Sigma Tau Gamma.
All proceeds go to the Michael McNiel foundation. “Michael Mc- Niel was a brother of Sigma Tau Gamma who passed away from cancer. All the money goes to cancer research,” said Kurt Baumagarten, STG member. Michael McNiel attended the University of Massachusetts and died at the age of 27.
Participants for this event are all from Greek Life at Monmouth University “We text members from different groups, we went to their meetings and we asked them to help out,” said Dep Patel, Sigma Tau Gamma President.
The event was hosted by Brian Hentz, STG senior, and Laura Garcia, sophmore. “I love being ‘the face’ (of STG). I was President last year; I’m Social Chair this year. Plus, I’m pretty good at winging these things,” Hentz joked referring to hosting Greek Life events. “Yeah, and they’re too scared to do it (referring to his fellow STG brothers) so they throw me up here.” This is Hentz second year hosting the event. “There’s always a little bit of nerves,” Hentz said. “But once you get up there and get talking there’s nothing stopping you after that.”
Laura Garcia was a last minute fill-in for the event. “The original co-host backed out last minute,” said Garcia. “I’m the only one they know who has experience onstage, and I was asked last night to do this.” Garcia explained she has “been in musicals all throughout school and went to school for acting for two years.” Although this was her first time co-hosting this event, she has been on stage with STG at previous Greek Life events. She appeared onstage with STG for Monmouth Idol.
“The four of us have seen this event before and wanted to be a part of it,” said Danielle Ferris, Delta Phi Epsilon member, referring to her fellow sorority sisters Paige Dalesandro, Alexandra DiBenedetto, and Caroline Farella. “We really liked the event. It was really good last year,” said Alexandra DiBenedetto.
There were eight teams consisting of two members each. Each group was given the chance to guess the lyrics to two songs before intermission, in which four teams were eliminated. The board was set up like a jeopardy board. There were categories of music; “Country,” “2011 Hits,” etc. and each category had five choices worth 100-500 points. No one guessed incorrectly the first round, so eliminations were based off of total points accumulated.
There were some crowd favorites like “I Want It That Way,” by the Backstreet Boys and “Piano Man” by Billy Joel.
Team two, two members of Zeta Tau Alpha, picked a category that turned out to be the “Daily Double.” They had to sing the Monmouth Alma Mater and guess the last line correctly, which they did.
The door prizes were awarded during intermission; gift cards to Cluck U, Juniors West End, and Bubbakoo’s Burritos.
There was a tie for third place and the audience had to decide which team would advance to the next round. It came down to a ZTA team and a Delta Phi Epsilon team, Delta Phi Epsilon won. They were allowed to go first in the next round because they had the lowest number of points.
Third place went to sorority sisters from Alpha Sigma Tau, second place was awarded to sisters from Delta Phi Epsilon and first place went to members of Zeta Tau Alpha.
Sigma Tau Gamma is planning a special event for the fall semester, “The Roast of Tyler Havens.” All the proceeds will go to the Special Olympics.
PHOTO COURTESY of Danny Melone
