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Vol. 23, Issue 9
The College Newspaper That's Actually About College
10/16/13 - 10/23/13
UIUC Homecoming Week: More Than a Parade and a Football Loss BY: kitty kat With Homecoming on the horizon, many freshmen will be upset to find out that this week doesn’t involve a Powderpuff game, spirit days or a need for dress shopping. Instead, the only thing that comes to mind is the football game on Saturday, meaning everyone has an excuse to get especially hammered. But other than that, what the hell goes on during Homecoming week anyway? “There’s a parade right?” “I think I heard something about that.” “Jeez, if only there was some way to know…” Enter Google and the ability to type in the phrase “UIUC Homecoming” and violá! There you have it: An entire list on the university’s website of every single recognized activity taking place during the week. Too lazy to look it up yourself? You’re lucky you grabbed this paper, then. We’ll give you a quick overview of what activities are out there so you can actually go do something this Homecoming week instead of watching TV alone with a case of warm Miller Lite.
Friday, October 18:
Homecoming week kicks off a few days early with iHelp on the Main Quad. iHelp is a volunteer agency comprised of current students, alumni and Champaign-Urbana community members, and they’re scheduled to perform volunteer tasks all throughout Homecoming week. Because their specific tasks weren’t immediately noticeable on the website (and who really has time for digging anyway?), our only choice is to blindly guess at what causes and issues the iHelp team will be involved in. Maybe canning on the Quad to help fund The Daily Illini printing debt? Maybe building a glass floor structure over the Morrow Plots so people can stand above it and take pictures like the Chicago Skydeck? Maybe walking behind a group of international students and picking up cigarette butts as they throw them down? Maybe catching squirrels on the Quad and giving them rabies vaccinations? The possibilities are endless. Don’t you want to be apart of it? Regardless of what it’s for, volunteering always looks good on a resume.
Sunday, October 20:
Greek guys and gals, it’s time to bust out your creative tendencies and window markers! Today’s the day you get to coat Green Street with
orange, blue and your house letters in the annual House and Window Decorating Contest. Oh, and lowly RSOs can do it too, but good luck winning the contest with Pikes and Tri-Delts as your competition. Remember that you’re probably expected to appeal to a panel of alumni judges who probably won’t find dick drawings and “LOL OMG TFM” really funny on the window of Panera, so you’re going to need to get a bit more traditional. Write the lyrics to “Oskee Wow Wow” or draw your best version of the Chief, making it as politically correct as possible. And for all you art kids who aren’t in a Greek house or student organization … yeah, back off because you can’t be involved.
Monday, October 21:
Here is where the real fun begins! There’s a sweet smell in the air on Monday morning, and the campus is alive and bursting with Illini colors. Well, not really. The majority of the students are still hungover from Saturday night and are sleeping through classes that don’t involve iClicker points. So for those of you who make it out of your apartment on the worst day of the week, check out the activities you can take part in today. continued on page 19
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