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16C HOMECOMING
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2007
PARADE
Filling the boulevard with Jayhawk spirit
Student organizations compete for parade title
BY KATHERINE LESLIE
editor@kansan.com
Every year thousands of students, alumni and Kansas fans line Jayhawk Boulevard to watch the Homecoming Parade. The parade
will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Kansas Union and follow Jayhawk Boulevard to the Chi Omega fountain. The parade will last 30 to 45 minutes.
Student life and greek organizations compete in the parade using
"There will be plenty of variety to this year's parade, ranging from KU organizational floats and banners,to a large, floating Chipotle burrito."
DAVID WILCOX
Parade co-chairman
floats, decorated vehicles and banners.
ber of points for first, second and third place. The points are based on the difficulty of creating the floats and banners. Moving parts floats receive 200, 175 and 150 points for first, second and third place, respectively. Thirty-five points are awarded for participation;
nonmoving parts floats
receive 175, 150,
and 125 points
with 30 points
for participation;
and decorated
vehicles and banners receive 100,
75 and 50 points
with 25 points
for participation.
Banners are worth
20 points.
Groups can participate in one of four categories to earn points: floats with moving parts, floats with nonmoving parts, decorated vehicles and banners. First, second and third places and honorable mentions will be awarded in each division.
In addition to participation points, each division allots a num-
lines participants must follow during the parade include sticking to the jayhawk Nation theme and having escape hatches on the moving parts floats in case of fire. Parade cochairwoman Alyson Rodene, Wichita junior, said that participants could not endanger small children with vehicles or candy.
This year's parade will feature the Marching Jayhawks and the
Marching, Cobras, a world-famous Kansas City, Mo., drill team. The Rock Chalk dancers will also perform. The Grand Marshall for this year's parade is Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, a University of Kansas alumna.
Student life and greek organizations compete in the parade using floats, decorated vehicles and banners.
"There will be plenty of variety to this year's parade, ranging from KU organizational floats and banners, to a large, floating Chipotle burrito," said parade co-charman David Wilcox, Manhattan sophomore.
Brittani
Johnson, Denver senior, described her sorority's plans for their float.
"For this year's theme, we're having a Jayhawk on a throne with a crown on his head, with stalks of corn as his subjects," she said.
Johnson said her sorority had placed well during her time at the University and she expected the same results at this year's parade.
"We've been in the top three ever since I was a freshman," she said. "We got second place last year. We're hoping for another victory this year."
Edited by Rachael Gray
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WHAT QUOTE HAS INFLUENCED YOU THE MOST IN LIFE?
WHAT SONG BEST DESCRIBES
YOUR LIFE?
WHAT DO YOU MISS ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL?
WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 10 YEARS?
WHAT IS YOUR DREAM VACATION SPOT?
Daniel Reyes
Ryan Pope
member of the Girl to Kid
Rather member of the GERP.
My mom once said, "Try to be patient." Good things come to those who wait. At my age, I'm more patient than I used to be.
"I'm Looking Through You" by the Beatles. It's one of the first songs I learned to play on the guitar. I like the lyrics. People go through life and change and the people around you recognize the change first.
The care-free attitude toward life.
Greece. I have never been there and I've traveled everywhere in Europe. That's the one place I never made it to.
Probably still in Lawrence, hopefully still running the businesses I'm involved with and have ventured off to try some other things as far as in business.
Mary Lynn Slover
Topeka saphomore
topeka sophomore
"Beauty is only skin deep." You should look at a person for what they are on the inside, not just outside.
"Clarity" by John Mayer. It talks about how you go through stages in life and things become clearer.
I miss being under the lights at the football stadium during a game performing dance and with the marching band.
Greece; or somewhere that overlooks the ocean. Where you can get away from all the hustle and bustle; where it's peaceful.
Owning a psychology clinic that tie in the science of psychology with reflexology, massage therapy and a spa. Hopefully I'll be married and with a kid and living in the Redwoods in southern Oregon.
TOMORROW'S NEWS HIGH-TECH T'S
A few short years from now, the predicament of a dying cell phone could be solved with the help of your shirt. That's right, your clothing could have the capacity to charge electronics.
Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia are in the middle of designing a shirt that generates an electrical charge through human movement. These high-tech get-ups will be able to refuel your MP3 players, Blackberries, and any other portable device.
How does this work? The
shirts are made of a material called piezoelectric, which has the capacity to create an
electric field
through mechanical force.Energy from simple human movements is stored and essentially acts as a battery for your
electronics.
CSIRO, which received a $4.4 million grant to work on this project, anticipates the shirts could be available in five years.
Ashley Thompson
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