THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY OCTOBER 20 2020
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2008
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Homecoming involves more groups than just Greeks
BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
bentsminger@kansan.com
The Homecoming Steering Committee created two new events to get a more diverse group of student organizations involved in homecoming activities this week.
David Wilcox, Manhattan junior, is vice president of the committee. He said the committee wanted to give students the opportunity to get involved non-competitively as individuals as well as with their organizations.
The committee created a Jayhawk Renaissance Festival and Homecoming Cookout for the week. The cookout will replace the annual pep rally and feature the Jayhawk Jingles contest.
"Homecoming is now for the entire campus to have a good time with," Wilcox said.
The Jayhawk Renaissance Festival will feature info tables for student organizations and a Kansas University Endowment Association cash-grab box with money and scholarships. The Juggling Club and Fencing Club may also perform.
Emily Enright, Manhattan senior and daily event co-chair, said the festival would be similar to
the info fairs during Hawk Week. She said students would have the opportunity to learn more about student organizations away from the chaos of the beginning of the year.
The homecoming competition is divided into two categories Greek Life and Student Life. Wilcox said the division helped keep the competition fair because certain groups had more members and could afford to spend more money.
Organizations earn points for participation and also for first, second and third place finishes in competitive events. Students can also earn points for their organizations by attending events such as the Student Union Activities-sponsored Gabriel Iglesias show.
Wilcox said the homecoming competition was more competitive this year because there was a more diverse group of organizations participating.
"We're going to let as many people compete as possible because that's the fun of competition," Wilcox said.
The committee held a new informational meeting for interested students and groups this year. Wilcox said they wanted to make it clear the competition wasn't
Monday Medieval Monday in front of Wescoe Hall 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
events
Monday
Tuesday
Tuesday
Homecoming Murals in front of
Wescoe Hall 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Wednesday
Kristin Moody, Wichita senior, and Madeline Johnson, Overland Park sophomore, paint pieces of cut cardstock to assemble the feathers of a Jayhawk for their homecoming float. The scholarship hall community is working together on the project by dividing different parts of the Jayhawk to each scholarship hall and uniting for the final assembly.
Jayhawk Renaissance Festival on Strong Hall Lawn 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Thursday
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Thursday
Chalk n' Rock in front of Wescoe
Hall 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Friday
Crimson and Blue Spirit Day in front of Wescoe Hall 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday Parade on Jayhawk Boulevard 9 a.m. KU vs. Texas Tech 11 a.m.
For a complete list of events visit http://www.homecoming.ku.edu/
calendar.shtml
restricted to certain organizations.
restricted to certain organizations.
The St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center student organization.
tion is participating for the first time. Tara Elpers, Wichita sophomore and president of the group, said it would be a good opportunity to make connections with students and other organizations on campus.
"I think it's just a great way to get the St. Lawrence name out there," Elpers said.
The All Scholarship Hall Council has participated in the competition before but is getting more involved this year. Madeline Johnson, Overland Park sophomore and programming chair for the council, said students wanted to have a greater presence during homecoming week.
kind of a building block for next year," Johnson said.
Events will continue throughout this week and the committee will announce the winner of the competition during halftime of the football game against Texas Tech on Saturday.
"Hopefully this is going to be
Edited by Ramsey Cox
ECONOMY
Investors look to stock market during global economic recession
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — With little question the U.S. is in the grips of a recession, investors this week will lean on a stream of earnings and economic reports to help determine exactly how prolonged and painful the downtown might be.
There's certainly been fresh evidence the credit market has begun to thaw. But, that alone might not be enough to restore confidence
in the stock market at a time when investors are clamoring for stronger signs of a bottom.
Trying to predict a floor for major U.S. stock market indexes has proven to be a difficult task. Wall Street ended a volatile two-week run fairly stable on Friday, and there were indications that bank-to-bank lending rates eased and that some companies returned to the bond market to raise cash.
Those indicators might have previously been enough to reassure anxious investors that the worst is over for the stock market. However, amid a financial crisis not seen for decades, analysts still remain cautious.
"If you can survive the whip-lash of this bottom formation, then stocks look ridiculously cheap," said Edward Yardeni, president and market analyst at Yardeni Research. "But, there are bigger questions. Investors still want to see the light of day in this credit crisis, and they want to know if the current recess-
sion will be relatively short and shallow."
Sunday evening, stock index futures signaled a slightly higher open. Dow Jones industrial average futures rose 54, or 0.61 percent, to 8,825. Standard & Poor's 500 futures rose 7.30, or 0.78 percent, to 940.50; while Nasdaq-100 futures rose 7.00, or 0.53 percent, to 1,318.
He said the biggest question facing Wall Street is whether the stock market's current levels have priced in all the pain that goes along with a recession. Indexes could slip even further if the market is side-swiped by a disappointing batch of economic news or dour corporate reports.
It was impossible to tell whether the market would hold at those levels by the time trading resumes Monday. Markets in Asia and Europe could set the tone for the start of the week in the U.S., and any news developments before the opening bell on Wall Street will
ultimately determine how U.S. stocks fare.
Traders return to work Monday with a bit of history lingering over the session. Sunday marked the anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash known as "Black Monday". The Dow plunged 22.6 percent that day to mark the largest one-session percentage decline ever.
Economic reports this week include September's index of leading U.S. economic indicators on Monday.