HOMECOMING UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 15, 1993
3B
Todd Summerson,
Topeka freshman and Sigma Nu member, gets a start on his house's homecoming foot.
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Float creation takes teamwork
By Liz Klinger
Kansan staff writer
Based on the theme "Recycle the Cyclones," the floats will proceed from the Chi Omega Fountain on Jayhawk Boulevard to the Kansas Union.
Wednesday night a lot of hammering, banging, stuffing and laughing was going around Lawrence as students worked on floats for today's 2:20 p.m. parade.
While a handful of Kappa Sigma fraternity members worked on their float's frame in their back yard, Jeremy Pick, Omaha, Neb., sophomore, 25 of his fraternity brothers and members of the Delta Delta Delta sorority tucked green and white pump tissues into a chicken wire sheet in the living room.
A dozen Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers stood beneath a rented red and white tent waiting for members of the Kappa Delta sorority to arrive.
"It's something the alumni can come back and take pride in," Pick said. "We'll probably be up all Thursday night just pumping."
Marshall Butler, Chicago senior, said that their float will feature a recycling bin with a Cyclone, made of recycled materials, moving up and down and a Jayhawk smashing his Cyclone down.
"It's a blast," Butler said. "It's a great way to get everyone together working on one common goal."
Floats will be judged in five categories: creativity, following this year's theme, technical complexity and operability, attention to detail and adherence to the rules. Of the 13 floats entered in the parade, 12 were created by fraternities and sororites, and the other by the Lawrence Catholic Center.
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Alpha Tau Omega compose one of nine groups to have a float with moving parts.
Scott Fillmore, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, said the group's float will feature a Jayhawk with a can crusher crushing Cyclones and throwing them into a recycling bin.
Sue Morrell, adviser of Student Union Activities and homecoming chair, said all students, faculty and staff were invited to attend a bonfire at Broken Arrow Park, 30th and Louisiana streets, at 8:30 tonight where awards will be presented.
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Sororities and fraternities all over campus are preparing their floats for the upcoming homecoming parade. Todd Summerson, Topeka freshman and member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, helps with pumping, which is one of the most time-consuming activities involved in building a float. Pumping consists of taking pomp paper and attaching it to chicken wire.
They're back Alumni return for weekend
Homecoming activities designed more for grads than students
By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
Many KU students will be participating in homecoming activities this weekend, but a number of this weekend's events are planned for those who are students no longer.
Alumni, not students, are "coming home" for home- coming.
"Although they come back for a variety of reasons, it's just a good time for everyone to know the alumni will be back," said Donna Neuner, director of membership services for the University of Kansas Alumni Association.
Neuer said the number of alumni who returned each year was impossible to estimate.
Neuer said that alumni came back to meet with their old friends, tour the campus, visit their former living groups, such as fraternities, sororities or scholarship halls, attend functions of the Alumni Association, or just root for the Jayhawks in Memorial Stadium.
"There are 600 or 800 who come to our picnic, but there are so many more who come back to campus for other reasons," Neuner said. "And a lot come back just for the game."
Glee Smith, a 1943 journalism and 1947 law graduate of KU, said homecoming was a good opportunity for him and his family to re-establish ties with friends and colleagues from KU.
"It's of great value for the University and the state for people to maintain their ties with KU," Smith said. "It makes a stronger university."
Smith said that he had seen traditions change since he was a student but that he still enjoyed the activities on the Hill each year. Smith will be a judge for this year's homecoming parade.
Kenneth Hamilton, La Jolla, Calif., who graduated from the School of Business in 1939 and the School of Law in 1947, said he always tried to make it back for homecoming.
KU alumni are living throughout the country, Smith said, and they return from both coasts.
"I guess I might have missed a few, but I've been back almost every year since then," he said.
Hamilton said he visited the law school and attended homecoming functions at the Alumni Association when he returned each fall.
As a student at KU, Hamilton said, he never missed a football, basketball, or baseball game or a track meet.
"I guess you could say a perennial sophomore," Hamilton said. "I got pretty attached to KU. I hear the KU spirit is a disease. Once you get it in your blood, you can't get rid of it.
"And I'm infected."
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