12C HOMECOMING
TRADITION
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009
Iowa State celebrates campus spirit differently
BY LUCAS RANKER
lranker@kansan.com
Most KU students are familiar with waving the wheat and the Rock Chalk Chant, but few know about the traditions at Iowa State, this year's homecoming rival.
Iowa State University lies roughly 270 miles north of Lawrence in the city of Ames, Iowa
The Cyclone football team will have spent more than four hours traveling for Saturday's game at Memorial Stadium.
According to the school's Web site, the Iowa state legislature established the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm in 1858 in Story County, a central county in Iowa
Illustration by Drew Stearns/KANSAN
The first building on campus was Farm House, which still stands today, and classes were held in one building. Old Main. The first graduating class entered in 1963.
composed of 24 men and two women.
This year, ISU has a record high of 27,945 students and a campus with more than 100 buildings. The ISU campus stretches across more than 1,984 acres, which makes it about 884 acres bigger than the KU campus.
Iowa State boasts a few national firsts. In 1879, the nation's first school of veterinary medicine was
established at ISU. It is also the birthplace of the first electronic digital computer. George Washington Carver became the first African-American student at Iowa State in 1891 after living here in Kansas. Later, he became the first black faculty member as well.
Even though Iowa State lacks a daunting chant, it does have multiple school songs including "Bells of Iowa State" and "Iowa State Fight Song."
The Iowa State Cyclone colors of cardinal and gold somewhat clash with our crimson and blue. The mascot, known as Cy, is a cardinal.
As the school's alumni Web site explains, a cardinal was chosen as mascot because a cyclone is difficult to depict in mascot form. The Cyclone name came about after a sports writer compared an Iowa State victory against Northwestern to fighting a cyclone.
Campaniling, according to Kelly Reynaga, Wichita freshman at ISU, is a tradition during Homecoming week in which couples gather around the campanile and kiss at the stroke of midnight. Another romantic tradition at ISU is Lake Laverne. It is said that if a couple can walk around the lake three times without speaking then they are meant to be.
Mica Rumbach, Overland Park sophomore at ISU, said her favorite tradition at ISU involved the Zodiac sign on the floor of the union.
"The story goes that if you walk across the Zodiac you'll fail your next test," Rumbach said.
To reverse the curse students are supposed to throw change in the union's fountain.
— Edited by Megan Morriss
What do you think? What makes the homecoming game so different from other games during the season? BY JASMINE TINNER
NATHAN MACK 2009 graduate
"I think it's because more KU graduates attend the game and they are back at KU enjoying themselves like they used to."
ASHLEIGH DIXON Parsons junior
"I guess it's the opportunity to see classmates outside of class being nominated for homecoming king and queen."
ASHLEIGH GARCIA Topeka senior
"I think homecoming games are different because it's less about tailgating and more about the actual school spirit and the pumped up atmosphere."
ELISA KRAPCHA 2005 graduate
"The homecoming game is different because a lot more alumni come back for the game and other things going on the week of homecoming.It makes the traditions of KU shine through a little bit more."
ANDY STEIN Dodge City senio
"It's everything that goes around the game like the parades and the traditions. Plus the whole week gets everyone hyped up for the game."
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