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Show Monday, September 8, 2008 HOMECOMING 2008 1 HE 5IGNPOST Homecoming celebration begins with Mud Olympics at WSU Davis By Samantha Neri a&e editor I The Signpost Five candidates for Homecoming Queen in 1958 pose for a picture, which ran in The Signpost in 1958. night's game against Dixie. This change in WSU tradition was not small, but students have little interest in royalty this year. After being told there would be no Homecoming king and "so we decided to focus on bigger, By Jordan Ringler queen, WSU students responded better things for the students." sr. news reporter I The Signpost indifferently to die situation. Velasquez set her sights on "I'm involved with activities, The start of the school year two events: the kick-off party but I really couldn't care less," the after-game party. explained senior Patrick Hampton. brings more than homework and and The Kick-off party will be held parking tickets-it symbolizes the Hampton's Monday, Sept. beginning of football season, which apathetic means the Homecoming game. 8 at the Ogden "We wish we attitude was This once-a-year bash includes the Amphitheater. reflected in traditional football stadium packed There will be a could have done sophomore with fans, various parties, a semi- "Paint the Town Laini Larsen's formal dance and the crowning of Purple" contest, Homecoming royalty, opinion on rally, a Homecoming king and queen. pep royalty's and we don't want to But this year, a change in Wildcat performances a b s e n c e . Double appear lazy, but we tradition has surfaced: there by "I don't Nothing will be no Homecoming royalty. Or really care," she Allred wanted to focus on a Last year, Weber State University's and said. "I'm more royalty was chosen on a stage in the and free food. tradition that is taken concerned with "We wish Union Building atrium. Students in homework, we could more seriously/' the crowd, some shirting from class school suiff." done to class, volunteered to dress in boas have Sophomore and other outrageous clothes to Homecoming Suzy Madigan and - Ana Velasquez, expressed her nominate themselves for king and royalty, queen. Following the fashion show, we don't want WSU Campus Activity interest in a panel of three administrators to appear lazy, Homecoming- Director selected royalty. This process has but we wanted although not been dubbed with the term instant to focus on a in the royalty. royalty. The students received tradition that is "I don't care either way I go to the a t-shirt and were announced takenmore seriously, "Vales quez said. game, but I never know the people Velasquez said she hopes that at the Homecoming dance, but who get chosen for royalty," she the excitement ended there. royalty will become an exciting said. "But I do love homecoming." "Last year's instant royalty wasn't tradition, but focused her efforts a huge success," said Ana Velasquez, on the after-game party. The party Comment on this story jt the WSU Campus Activities Director, will start at 9 p.m. in the Union wsusignpost.com. Building following Saturday A tradition comes to a close: no WSU Homecoming royalty this year Thirty students gathered at Weber State University's Davis campus Saturday morning to get dirty. The Davis campus held a Mud Olympics as a kick-off for Homecoming week. Activities at the Mud Olympics included tug-of-war, a three-legged race, a slip-n-slide competition, and mud wrestling. Other activities were canceled due to too many rocks in the mud. "This is just a way to have a lot of fun and not care, and get dirty," Naylor said. "I don't think Weber State has ever done a Mud Olympics." "It was good and fun except for the ground being rocky," said Lee Naylor, the Davis Campus Director of Student Activities. "It's a muddy, rocky mess out there." The Layton City Fire Department came and sprayed the water to make the mud. "The people that came are really gung-ho about it," said Heather Johnson, the WSU Davis Director of Diversity. "We had lo tell people 'Okay come on, let's get in the mud.' But once they were in the mud it was really cool." Though Naylor won the slipn-slide contest, he iet Morgan Hall, an early college student at NUAMES high school, take the credit for winning. "We are going to pretend at least," Hall said adding that there was a made up contest about the best mud dreadlock hair contest. Another winner for an event was Erik Ashby, the Coordinator of Student Programs at the Davis Campus. His partner in the event was Zach Tyler, a NUAMES early college student. The Mud Olympics had many students from NUAMES high school attending. The campus for the high school is on the Davis campus. Devon Abele, also a NUAMES early college student, said that she came at nine to help set up. She said, "I thought it was fun and jumped in." Though the outcome was small for the activity, people were still having fun. "We advertised pretty good," Naylor said. "We tried to get a lot of people to come." Naylorsaidthattheoutcomewas betterthanexpected, buthewished more students would have come. "Maybe a lot of people had other commitments," Naylor guessed about why more people didn't come. "We should have done this up on campus and tear up some ground." That's not all for Davis c a m p u s activities. A movie will be played as a part of the homecoming events at the Davis campus on Wednesday. The movie "Run Fatboy, Run" will be outside starting at 9 p.m. THE SIGNPOST Breana Hammond and Angela Perkins get dirty at Saturday's Mud Olympics event at WSU Davis Campus. Activites included slip-n-slide and mud wrestling competitions. Comment on this story at wsusignpost. com. School continued from front activities like Homecoming." In fact, the amount of students driving from outside of Weber County is more than two-thirds, showing that many students are married, working full time, and enduring long commutes from outside counties, which may not leave them time to enjoy all the events offered on campus. Velasquez and the activities committee are using unique ways to keep students updated on the Homecoming Dance. "We are starting a Facebook event that will invite a big group to attend together. We are trying to place posters all around campus. The marketing committee has been working very hard. We are trying to get the community involved by Painting the Town Purple, which will involve businesses on 25th Street, then we will enjoy the dance on Sept. 12, Friday night." Comment on this story at wsusignpost.com. Our cats work bard to get you the news, so you don't have to. ^ T H E SIGNPOST |