Dining Services is sponsoring an Iron Chef competition at 1 p.m. today in Christian Cafeteria. They will select three contestants from all the applicants to compete for the campus title.

Aramark will provide all the food and the mystery ingredient everyone will have to use. They also are providing a trained souschef. The contestants will have two hours to prepare their dishes.

The judges are Athletic Director Brad Teague, Capt. Chris Bently of UCAPD and Jason Knapp, executive chef for Aramark. They will evaluate the food based on taste, presentation, creativity and use of the mystery ingredient.

The winner gets 100 dining dollars and a $25 gift card to Dick's Sportings Goods. Second place gets 50 dining dollars and third place gets 25 dining dollars.

The competition is free and open to everyone.

The 12th annual All-Greek Step Show is today at 7 p.m. in the Farris Center. It's a loud, raucous event that draws a couple thousand spectators each year.

All three Greek councils on campus come together every year to sponsor the event and provide a forum for the Greek organizations to perform and compete for the title of All-Greek Step Show champion.

The sororities and fraternities are paired together and each forms a team. The teams prepare a routine and practice it for months. They will perform those routines in the competition tonight.

“So far, it looks like this year is going to be even better [than last year] and should provide plenty of entertainment for all of the UCA community,” said Gordon McGuire, co-chairman of the Greek Special Events Committee.

Here are the pairings and order of performance for tonight's show:

1. Sigma Sigma Sigma, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Nu, Delta Sigma Theta
2. Delta Zeta, Kappa Sigma
3. Alpha Sigma Alpha, Omega Psi Phi
4. Alpha Sigma Tau, Zeta Phi Beta, Phi Beta Sigma, Phi Lambda Chi, Beta Upsilon Chi
5. Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha, Alpha Kappa Alpha

“Each group works hard at organizing and practicing their own steps and dance moves and on Friday they'll be able to showcase their hard work for the enjoyment of not only the Greek Life community, but also the UCA community as a whole,” said McGuire.

Greek organizational and individual awards will be presented between step routines, including Greek Man and Greek Woman of the Year awards.

Tickets are $10 at the door.

Check out a video of the step show from a couple of years ago.

The doors open at 6 p.m. and admission is $10.

The brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi know how to step

The All-Greek Step Show combines the historically African-American Pan-Hellenic groups with the historically Caucasian groups in a stepping competition. The event was organized by the sororities and fraternities on campus and the Office of Greek Life. 

 This year's groupings are: 

• Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Sigma Tau Gamma
• Kappa Alpha Psi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Phi Sigma Kappa
• Sigma Gamma Rho, Omega Psi Phi, Alpha Sigma Tau, and Kappa Sigma
• Zeta Phi Beta, Phi Beta Sigma, Delta Zeta, and Sigma Phi Epsilon
• Delta Sigma Theta, Sigma Kappa, Sigma Nu, and Phi Lambda Chi

For more information, contact the Office of Student Life at 450-3137. 

Here are a couple of videos from the show a couple of years ago. This one is of Sigma Sigma Sigma performing. This one is of Alpha Kappa Alpha.

It seems that the hosts of the annual show, the Iota Pi chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, couldn't find enough UCA police officers to provide security at the event. The UCAPD officers are busy preparing for a campus drill on March 11.

This year's show includes Greek organization from throughout Central Arkansas.

Phi Beta Sigma men stepping

Phi Beta Sigma offers $2,500 in prize money to the top three finishers. The prizes are:

• First place - $1,500
• Second place - $750
• Third place - $250

Tickets for the April 23 show are $10 in advance and $15 the day of the show. The show still will be performed in Ida Waldron.

American Collegiate Intramural Sports held the first of six events on campus yesterday in the organization's search for four UCA student, two male and two female, to compete in the ACIS National Championship later this year at the Air Force Academy and Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The competition yesterday included an obstacle course on the basketball course in the HPER Center that had students running, dribbling through posts, making lay-ups and kicking a soccer ball before a final sprint to the finish line. The average finishing time was about 30 seconds.

The competition continues through the end of the week with biking and running events. Students must ride a bicycle for four miles and run for 1.5 miles. The events will be held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day in the HPER Center. Registration is available at HPER.

Nationwide, 200 universities are competing in the events. Students qualify by competing in events that test strength, agility, endurance, and speed.

The competition continues next week with swimming events.