10C HOMECOMING
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2007
CAMPUS
Decking the halls with Jayhawk spirit
CONTRIRITED PHOTO
All Scholarship Hall Council students made a Jawahir out of chicken wire and tissue paper for Homecoming 2006. It stood in front of Watkins Scholarship Hall. Residence halls will compete in a holiday decoration competition this year to earn points for the homecoming competition.
Campus residents compete in homecoming competition
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BY ALEX PARKER
The holidays are still two months away, but Bailey DeReus is encouraging students and staff to deck the halls a bit early this year.
De Reus,
Des Moines,
Iowa, senior, is
in charge of the
deck the Halls
competition, a
homecoming
event where residence halls and campus offices are draped in KU spirit. DeReus is community and
"It's a really great way to have some fun and encourage some Jayhawk spirit for the week and hopefully have a lot of people participate."
campus outreach chairwoman for the homecoming committee.
"It's a really great way to have some fun and encourage some Jayhawk spirit for the week and hopefully have a lot of people participate," DeReus said.
a commons area and should encompass this year's homecoming theme, Javhawk Nation.
Because Deck the Halls is an event solely for residence and scholarship halls, student life groups are not able to earn points, even if members live in and help decorate a participating residence hall. DeReus said participants could work together to create themes for each building or floor, but should not spend more than $175 on decorations. The only stipulations are that the decorations must be in
This is the first year that resident and scholarship halls can compete against each other for points in the homecoming competition. The residence hall competition is separate from the student life group competition. Other events that earn residence hall points include Stuff the Bus and the daily events.
BAILEY DEREUS Des Moines, Iowa, senior
DeReus said that residence halls could begin decorating the weekend before Homecoming Week. The
winners receive 100 points toward the overall Homecoming Week competition. Second place wins 75 points and the third place residents win 50 points. Every participating resident or scholarship hall automatically receives 25 points
just for taking part in the event. Halls also receive bonus points for having as many floors participate as possible, DeReus said.
For the past several years the All
Scholarship Hall Council has paired up men's and women's scholarship halls to decorate the facades of their buildings. This is the first year that the council is banding together to decorate the Crawford Center, the newly renovated gathering place for scholarship students.
Brena Bessa, Manaus, Brazil, junior, said even though scholarship halls decorated their buildings in the past, they could never dream of competing with fraternities and sororities, which have more resources to devote to festooning their houses.
"It itt was really fair before, especially because we only have 50 students per hall," said Bessa, programming director for the council and a resident of Watkins Hall.
There are 11 scholarship halls. This year, she said, "We just wanted to be involved and wanted to get ASHC involved."
Edited by Jeff Briscoe
Scholarship Hall Council students prepare a tissue and tissue paper sashwak for homcoming celebrations last year. For the first time, resident and scholarships will compete against each other, to win points in the competition this year.
Food and football
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THE BEST PLACE TO CATCH THE GAME
Bottom: B.J. Mcntosh, Wichita senior and records keeper for Kappa Alpha Psi, loads donated food items collected by Kappa Alpha Psi onto a bus Saturday afternoon at Dillons. The objective was to fill the bus with food for Stuff the Bus, an event organized by the Homecoming Steering Committee to benefit local food pantries.
Top Right: Julie Hayes, Johnsburg, Ill., graduate student and homecoming steering committee adviser, and Laura Sutton, Lincoln, Neb., senior and excel and Spirit Sprint chairwoman, work to collect donations for Stuff the Bus Saturday afternoon outside Dillons, 1015 W. 23rd St. There will be other events throughout this week.
Top Left: Buses collected food items and cash donations at locations throughout Lawrence on Saturday and Sunday. A total of 10,111 non-pershallable food items were collected.
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