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omecoming hoedown
A down-home victory celebration
As if on cue, the leaves slowly
metamorphosed into radiant
golds, vermillions, scarlets,
oranges, and chartreuses; and
students suddenly burst into fervid
activity: shining windows, trimming
bushes, arranging rooms and
painting ~elcome posters. The
campus sparkled in preparation of
Homecoming. Everyone and
everything stood in piquant anticipation
...
And then, bang! The celebration
began.
Homecoming activities kicked
off on Thursday afternoon with
Presidents Gibb and Artis' brainchild,
the First Campus Bash. According
to Barry Bonifas, ASUI
Programs Coordinator, nearly
1,200 students gathered on the Ad
Lawn to listen to the rock 'n' roll
music of Dark Star, to gobble down
2,500 cups of chocolate and
strawberry ice cream, to frolic in
the warm Indian-summer sunshine,
and to enjoy their fellow students'
whimsical conversations.
During the band's intermission,
several members of the Society for
Creative Anachronism engaged in
a mock-medieval tournament. Clad
in homemade suits of armor, these
twentieth-century knights battled
with each other to demonstrate
their chivalry.
"Don't let this tournament fool
you," said SCR's president, Dave
Nikolich. "We don't simply play
war games. Since the purpose of
this club is to have fun while
recreating medieval life in all its
forms, we also study this era's
customs, dancing, food, writing
and history."
And, how did the students like
this brainchild? Immensely! But, as
Josephine Ortega, a Lorain, Ohio
senior, good-naturedly pointed out,
"You can definitely tell that times
are changing. Five years ago it was
student protest and dissention.
Today, only ice cream socials."
Regardless of change, this ice
cream social started off
Homecoming wonderfully.
Later that evening, students
assembled in the Arboretum for the
annual homecoming bonfire in
honor of the football team. With the
fire blazing in the background,
sororities, fraternities, and resident
halls performed skits, based on the
theme "An Idaho Round-Up," for
the student body and a panel of
judges. Gault Hall's skit took first;
Alpha Phi's second; and Kappa
Kappa Gamma's third.
The highlight of the evening,
however, was the crowning of
Queen Lisa Hoalst, a Meridian
junior and a member of Delta Delta
Delta. Hoalst's attendants were
Tracy Carmack, a Resident Advisor
at McCoy Hall, and Rhonda
Correll, a member of Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
Hoalst called her experience as
homecoming queen "unreal." "I
had never," she exclaimed, "ever
been the center of that much attention.
Most of the time I didn't
know what to say, especially when
I'd come home and find roses on my
dresser. Usually I mumbled
something silly, like 'Wow'. I feel
like I just finished living a dream."
Friday's events included an open
house at the Alumni Center,
several reunion dinners, a Parents
Association celebration in the Kibbie
Dome, the showing of North
Dallas Forty, and a dance sponsored
by the LOS Student
Association.
Despite the rain and cold, on
Saturday morning several hundred
students, townspeople and visitors
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