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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2007
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-
General guidelines 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 Rodee, 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
Student life and greek organizations compete in the parade using floats, decorated vehicles and banners.
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.
"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-chairman 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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I love
coffee. I have worked in a coffee shop for the past two years, and have, over that period of time, expanded my palette to enjoy everything from orange mochas to Cuban espresso shots.
Coffee, however, doesn't love me—or my stomach. After several months of consistent java slurping, I started getting horrible, hours-long stomachaches that left me curled up and close to tears.
As soon as my love affair had blossomed, I was forced to break it off with coffee.
Enter tea. I began to explore
the dozens of tea varieties available to me at work. I drank green, black and red teas hot. I drank them cold, with milk, unsweetened, and I drank them almost every day. Though the energy boost wasn't quite as immediate as the kick from coffee, I loved the flavor and I felt steadier after drinking tea. Nothing feels better on a sore throat or to warm chilly, fall hands than a mug of hot tea. Read Chris Hom's story on tea, pg. 4, to learn more about this brilliant beverage. Also sure to read about sky diving, pg. 7, to see if you should schedule yourself a free fall. After reading the story, I called my dad, and we're planning on it!
Jaime Netzer, editor
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health04 MORE THAN A DRINK Tea is all the new hotness, even if its cold
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CULTURE SHOCK Learning to live far from home
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