By Sarah Carlson, Copy Editor

As the pledging season nears its end, grubs for social clubs took place last weekend and will continue Friday and Saturday.

For most clubs, the grubs are put together by the pledges who come up with a theme, find a location, design T-shirts, arrange catering and provide entertainment.

The women of Sigma Theta Chi, however, organized their grub for the pledges, or Squigs, and Squig president Lauren Usrey called it a blessing.

“It is much appreciated with so many other things to stress out about during pledging,” said Usrey, sophomore nursing major from San Antonio.

The theme for the Siggie grub Saturday was Siggie Glitz and Glamour through the Decades,” and Usrey said couples were dressed in a variety of costumes, such as John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, cavemen and women, 1920s flappers and even a Tiffany’s ring and ring box.

“I had a lot of fun, which I have heard is usually unusual for a pledge,” Usrey said. “Overall, the night ran very smoothly, and everyone that I have talked to really enjoyed themselves.”

Other grubs last weekend included Gamma Sigma Phi, Frater Sodalis, Sub T-16 and GATA. This weekend, Galaxy, Tri Kappa Gamma, Delta Theta, Alpha Kai Omega, Pi Kappa and Ko Jo Kai will have their grubs. Themes for the grubs vary, from GSP’s theme of “Instant REO-play” revolving around sports, to TKG’s Murder Mystery theme, where some attendees will act out a murder mystery for everyone to solve.

Galaxy’s grub theme is “Nova Hall of Fame,” Novas being the club’s pledges.

David Stoniecki, sophomore pre-engineering major from Atlanta, is Nova president and said the pledges left the theme broad so that members can be as creative as they want to be for their costumes.

Stoniecki said the Novas have put in many hours preparing for the event, especially for the skits for the Moonies, and he said his favorite part has been seeing the Novas come together creatively for the task.

He said the skits will be anything that will entertain the members, especially satire on how they have acted during pledging as well as inside jokes from pledging experiences.

He said he is excited about the week and that pledging is going great, even though it takes a lot of effort.

“It can be a fun time, but it’s hard and time consuming,” Stoniecki said.