PAGE 18 HOMECOMING 2014
University game of Clue kicks off Homecoming
PATRICK MCFARLAND
@Kansannews
Campus turned into a giant game board Sunday as a part of this year's Homecoming. The KU Alumni Association hosted the event in a fitting start to the week themed "Roll with the Hawks."
The event, which turned the University campus into the set of the classic "who dunnit?" game, took place last night. The game began at Wescoe Hall and students spread around campus in search of the proper suspects.
The Alumni Association thought a University-wide competition would be a good way for current students and alumni to get involved and start off Homecoming Week, said Jacey Krebiel, alumni programs director.
Students participating in a campus-wide game of Clue search for information along Jayhawk Boulevard. The KU Alumni Association hosted the event to kick off Homecoming Week on Sunday.
The rules followed the traditional rules for a game of Clue with some slight crimson and blue differences. First, instead of the usual suspects, teams were selected from various professors and deans of KU departments and schools. Participants also had to select which of the campus buildings various crimes took place in everywhere from Fraser to the Daisy Hill.
"Originally we had difficulty determining how the teams should be arranged," Krehbiel said. "We did not want some organizations to be too large and have an unfair advantage of having more players solving the clues."
Many students took a wide variety of strategies for the event. Some took advantage of an on-foot method to traverse campus. However, one team from Beta Upsilon Chi took a different approach going through campus on bicycles.
Plain and simple: we are all here to win and we are going to attack each clue with each of our efforts."
"We all figured that bikes would make the experience much easier," said Nate Smith, a senior from Wichita and a member of Beta Upsilon Chi.
JEREMY GOLDBERG Sophomore from Calabasis
The excitement was not only in the strategy of transportation but how groups were going to attack solving the clues themselves. However, each team was there for the same reason.
"Plain and simple: we are all here to win and we are going to attack each clue with all of our efforts," Jeremy Goldberg, a sophomore from Calabasis, said during the event. "We are going to do whatever it is going to take to win."
- Edited by Ashley Peralta
Students participating in a University of Kansas-themed game of Clue run along Jayhawk Boulevard on Sunday. In teams of four, students combed campus for clues, searching for suspects among a group of KU professors and deans. Campus buildings provided possible crime scenes.
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