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Big 12 homecoming traditions
MORGAN SIMPSON
editor@kansan.com
This story originally ran in the homecoming special section on Sept. 26.
Even with the turmoil in the Big 12, various schools' traditions have managed to stick around for dozens of years. Here's a look at how homecoming is handled at a few universities around the conference.
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Down I-70 West in Manhattan, the Wildcats will take on the Sooners for their homecoming football game on Oct. 29. At Kansas State, sororities and fraternities dominate most homecoming-related festivities. The houses are paired up and make signs to show Wildcat spirit for the homecoming theme of the year. Another tradition is a 5K race to benefit a local organization. This year, all profits will go to Shepherd's Crossing, which provides resources to impoverished people. There is also a sidewalk chalk contest the week of homecoming.
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Similar to many schools, Oklahoma State hosts a homecoming parade through campus. For a more unique tradition, there is also an annual "Legacy Coloring Competition," where children are invited to help Pistol Pete decorate for "America's Greatest Homecoming Celebration." This year, the Cowboys take on the Bears for their homecoming game on Oct. 29.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
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This year, the Tigers take on the Cyclones on Oct. 15. Missouri boasts the largest student run homecoming in the nation. Events include a parade, spirit rally and blood drive, which has previously been recorded as the largest blood drive on a campus. There is also a talent competition that lasts three nights throughout the week where students can show off their unusual talents.
Although individual schools within the University of Texas host homecoming events, the university does not host an official homecoming game.
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
Since 1954, Texas Tech has held an election for homecoming queen. There is also a parade, float competition and pep rally, which is called the "Rowdy Raider Rally" and is held on the Friday before the football game. This year Texas Tech plays K-State on Oct. 15 for homecoming.
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
Up in the Hawkeye State, the first official homecoming for Iowa State was in 1912. This year, Iowa State will play Texas A&M on Oct. 22. The school also hosts a fireworks display and cheerleading competition. During the week, hundreds of students also volunteer to build a house for Habitat for Humanity.
Baylor University claims to have the oldest and largest homecoming parade in the country. Every year, the parade works its way through town and up to the Baylor campus. The university also hosts a singing competition, which is called "the Singspiration" and honors generations of Baylor alumni, students and families. This year, the Bears are battling it out on Nov. 5 against the Tigers.
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Student autnors offer insight, advice on amateur publishing
KELSEY CIPOLLA
kcipolla@kansan.com
While some students refused to shave or looked forward to celebrating the holidays last November, Jason Held, a senior from Minneapolis, wrote a novel. For writers across the country November is National Novel Writing Month, an online contest that challenges participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
Held initially had no intention of participating, but other members of the Jayhawk-Writers on Campus group, or J-WOC, convinced him to participate in the
arduous contest.
His book, "The Write Message," follows a 15-year-old boy who hires a literary agent and pursues a publishing deal while trying to balance high school, the challenges of the industry and familial loss. Select chapters of the protagonist's own writing are also included.
"You have to go in there knowing what your book is going to be about," Held said. "I didn't have a complete outline for it, but I knew what it was about."
J-WOC teamed up with KU
"We teamed up with Hewlett-Packard a year ago to start this project and they gave us grant money to come up with ideas to encourage printing on campus," said Rachel Barnes, the KU Bookstores custom material specialist. "What we came up with was the book contest."
Bookstores to incentivize competing in the contest. Participants who met the 50,000 word minimum would have a chance to publish their book.
After months of editing and revising, Held's book was finally ready for publication. The Print-
On-Demand center, which allows students, faculty, and community members to print and bind their own works, helped produce "The Write Message."
"We were serving as a small scale publisher for him," said Barnes. The bookstore also coordinated selling the book in the store and through Amazon.
Julie Honn, outreach and communications officer for J-WOC and a senior from Lenexa, said Held's success is encouraging to other student writers.
"It shows that it's achievable, to achieve that balance and achieve
that dream" Honn said. "That's what everybody who writes does it for, that I hope somebody reads this someday."
Although the novel was published last April, Held is still shocked to have actually published a book.
"It's a really strange feeling," he said. "I almost couldn't believe it, but I knew it was my story, I knew I wrote it. I had spent months on it."
Held will discuss his book today at 5 p.m. at Jayhawk Ink inside the Kansas Union. There will also be a panel discussion with other
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student writers about students' writing experiences.
Student Author Reading Jason Held will read from and discuss his new novel "The Write Message."
Monday October 3, 2011
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Tickit Cost: Free
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Today's weather
Forecasts done by
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HI: 85
LO: 43
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Last call for jean shorts.