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Thursday, Oct. 16

FREE Popcorn |11:30 a.m. First Floor Lobby, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Swing by the Union Programming Board table in the Union lobby for some FREE popcorn. Presented by the Union Programming Board, there’s ALWAYS SOMETHING with UPB!

Homecoming: Free Food | Noon on the South Oval. Enjoy some FREE food, courtesy of CAC Homecoming on the South Oval. For more information, contact cac@ou.edu.

Homecoming: Side Walk Chalk Competition | 1 p.m. on the Michael F. Price Walkway, South Oval. The traditional Sidewalk Chalk competition will start at 1 p.m. Student organizations will be designing their own unique chalking in coordination with their Homecoming theme. Come out to see this great tradition! For more information, contact cac@ou.edu.

Artist Talk | 6 p.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Included in the museum’s special exhibition, Richard Stout is one of the foremost modern painters in Houston, and he will discuss the artistic climate of the city in the 1950s and ‘60s. For more information, contact jrfarling@ou.edu.

Ask & Eat: A Q & A Session about Health and Fitness | 7 p.m. in the First Floor FIR Apartment, Adams Residence Hall. This event will include a hands-on demo on healthy meal preparation (including pizza and smoothies), healthy recipes and meal makeovers, tips and ideas for in-your-room exercise, and chances to win cool prizes For more information, contact Malinda Williams at mdwilliams@ou.edu.

Friday, Oct. 17

UPB’s Guess The Score | 11:30 a.m. in the First Floor Lobby, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Come guess the Sooner’s score each week for your chance to win a blu-ray of your choice or a UPB prize pack! Also, a grand prize winner will be awarded at the end of the season; past grand prizes include PS3, Kindle Fire, HDTV and more. There’s ALWAYS SOMETHING with the Union Programming Board, upb.ou.edu.

Homecoming: Free Food | Noon on the South Oval. Enjoy some FREE food, courtesy of CAC Homecoming on the South Oval. For more information, contact cac@ou.edu.

FREE Movie: ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ | 6, 9 p.m. & Midnight at Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Watch the FREE screenings of this popular sequel about Hiccup and his dragon Toothless fighting to protect the newfound peace before this movie is available on DVD/Blu-ray. Presented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

Softball vs Butler C.C. | 6 p.m at Marita Hynes Field. The Sooner Softball team plays host to Butler Community College as a continuation of their fall ball schedule. Come get a preview of your 2015 Sooner Softball team!

Homecoming Rah! Rally | 8 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center. Come out and support OU’s first annual Homecoming Rah! Rally! Before the event, all parade floats will be displayed for viewing, hot dogs, a banquet for prospective students, and an alumni event. During the Rah! Rally, we will have organizations perform dances, campus celebrities compete in a basket ball game, and athletes and coaches will be in attendance. Don’t miss the first annual Rah! Rally! For more information, contact cac@ou.edu.

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Saturday, Oct. 18

Homecoming Parade | 8 a.m. on Elm St., Boyd St., and Asp Ave.. Come out and support one of OU’s greatest and longest lasting traditions, the Homecoming Parade! The parade will begin three hours prior to kick-off, so make sure and come early to find a good spot to view the amazing floats and entries we will have participating this year! For more information, contact cac@ou.edu.

Football vs Kansas State | 11 a.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. The Sooners take on K-State in our Homecoming match-up. Halftime will also have the winners of the homecoming competition as well as having the new Homecoming king and queen crowned.

Football vs Kansas State Watch Party | 11 a.m. at Meacham Auditorium, Oklahoma Memorial Union. Come watch the Sooners take on our conference opponent and Homecoming match-up for FREE. Presented by the Union Programming Board; there’s ALWAYS SOMETHING with UPB, upb.ou.edu.

Volleyball vs Baylor | 7 p.m. at McCasland Field House. After watching the Sooners battle on the gridiron, go support the OU Volleyball team as they look to continue a strong home record this season!

Sunday, Oct. 19

Ongoing Exhibit: Macrocosm/Microcosm: Abstract Expressionism in the Southwest Opening | Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Come explore the new exhibit of Macrocosm/Microcosm: Abstract Expressionism in the Southwest.

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welcome homeEven though most of us at ESCAPE are still

trying to get through the daily grind as students, we think it’s nice to know campus will be ready for our return someday as alumni. Decorative boards on the South Oval, the homecoming parade and, of course, the football game are all things to look forward to when we return home.

But for now, we get to enjoy them anyway. To get the most of your homecoming experience, be sure to check out this issue full of the things that make the fall tradition great.

If you’re still caught up in midterms and don’t have time to take advantage of all the fes-tivities, there are a few other fun alternatives in this issue for you to enjoy, too.

Above all, enjoy this week of OU spirit, and make sure to show some respect to the ones who came before us.

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contents4. top 5 things this weekend

4. beat hunger this fall

7. support sooner yearbook

8. passing on the legacy

10. home game advantage

11. careful kansas state

12. still coming home

14. meet the court

16. the history

18. survive the book sale

20. board smorgasbord

21. prep for the parade

22. classifieds

A view of the South Oval in 1939. Photo courtesty of the Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries.:

Photo: An OU Homecoming Queen accepts her crown in a Daily archives photo from 1989

Fall is full of people eating pumpkin spice this-and-that and dreams of

giant Thanksgiving turkeys, but for many Oklahomans, it is a time of hunger — and OU’s Fall Food Drive is doing its best to change that.

Until Oct. 27, the campus will work together to collect non-perishable items for the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and to compete against OSU in friendly-competition for good.

According to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma’s website, more than 675,000 Oklahomans go hungry every day. However, Ashley Sullivan, Leadership & Volunteerism volunteer coordinator said last year’s collec-tions boasted impressive numbers, resulting in 8,327 pounds of food. OU’s Fall Food

Drive is co-sponsored by the Office of Leadership & Volunteerism.

OU is competing against OSU to see who can collect the most goods. Sullivan said OU won the competi-tion last year, and the plans for a vic-tory this year are in the works.

“OSU only has a goal of 5,000 pounds this year, so we are hoping to win again,” Sullivan said.

Students can contribute items to collection boxes located in many major areas of campus, including the Oklahoma Memorial Union and Cate Center. Any non-perishable item that is not in a glass container will be ac-cepted, including jars of peanut but-ter, canned vegetables and soups, boxes of macaroni and cheese and

bags of beans or rice.

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5things to do this

weekend

what: sooners vs. kansas state wildcats

when: 11 a.m. saturday

where: oklahoma memorial stadium

Watch the Sooners play the Kansas State Wildcats at the stadium. If you can’t make it there, watch the homecoming game on ESPN.

what: guess the score

when: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday

where: oklahoma memorial union’s first floor

Guess the Sooners’ score against Kansas State for a chance to win a prize from the Union Programming Board.

what: “our town”

when: 8 p.m. friday

where: sooner theatre, 101 e. main st.

Sooner Theatre and the Helmerich School of Drama present “Our Town.”

what: homecoming parade

when: 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. saturday

where: Elm Avenue and Brooks to Boyd Street

The Campus Activities Council’s Homecoming Parade is an annual tradition you won’t want to miss.

what: free movie

when: 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and midnight

where: oklahoma memorial union’s meacham

auditorium

See a free screening of “How to Train Your Dragon 2” before it comes out on DVD, pre-sented by the Union Programming Board and Campus Activities Council.

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LEADERSHIP &

VOLUNTEERISM

VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

OU will compete against OSU in the annual Fall Food Drive until Oct. 27

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tips to help you contribute to the fall

food drive

1. Finally clean out your car or couch cushions and use the change you find to buy goods.

2.Raid your parents’ (or your own) pan-try for stray cans.

3.Have a virtual food drive. Ask your friends for cans on social media, col-lect what they will give you and do-nate what you receive.

4. Instead of buying a mooching upper-classman a meal at the Caf, use extra meals to buy goods from Housing & Food Services.

5.Go on a non-perishable goods shop-ping trip with friends and enjoy giving back together.

6.Have a competition with your room-mates! Whoever collects the least amount of goods during the drive buys the others dinner or finally cleans the apartment/house.

If going out to buy cans seems like too much work, Housing & Food Services is providing a con-venient alternative. Throughout the food drive, they will have items for sale from $1 to $3 that can be added to an order. Students can use cash, meal points or Sooner Sense.

“We couldn’t do it without [Housing & Food Services],” Sullivan said. “I think they’re why we have raised so much in the past.”

From a student perspective, this option makes giving a lot more convenient.

“It’s great because a lot of students don’t have the transportation or time to run to Wal-mart and buy cans,” Sarah Campbell, human relations se-nior and SGA Vice President, said. “With our busy schedules, it makes it really easy to make a big impact.”

Many organizations and departments will be involved in the drive, including SGA. At the end of the drive, Campbell said SGA will hold a canned good sculpture contest among the participating organizations to celebrate a successful drive.

“It’s a way to showcase what they’ve collected as well as a way to show off the artistic abilities of the organizations,” Campbell said.

Campbell, who has participated in collecting goods in the past, said that the drive is a good time to consider the well being of others.

“As college students, we have a lot of resources and it’s good to think about the people who don’t have those resources,” Campbell said. “This is a great chance to give to back to those who are not as fortunate.”

food drive: continued

by the numbers: fall food drive

675,000

oklahomans go hungry

every day

$1 to $3: amount added to a housing & food

order to help prevent hunger

8,327pounds of food collected at ou

during last year’s drive

5,000Osu’s goal in pounds

for this year’s drive

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Served as Snyder’s

defensive coor-dinator from 1999-

2001. He led SMU from 2002-2007 and is now

Baylor’s defensive coordinator.

Coached defense under

Snyder from 1990-1995. He then spent

the majority of his career as head coach at South Florida and now coach-

es linebackers for the 49ers.

Coached defense

under Snyder from 2002-2003. He left for Wisconsin where he coached until taking the Arkansas head job after the 2012

season.

Worked under Snyder

from 1987-1996. He left for the head coach-ing job at Wyoming in

1997 before guiding Houston from

2000-2002.

Coached at Kansas State from

1989-2005 before re-tiring. He is in the midst of his second stint with

the Wildcats that began in 2009.

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the traditional lunch time.

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Bill Snyder was the orchestrator of one of the biggest turn-arounds in college football history. Before the coach ar-

rived in Manhattan, Kansas in 1989, the Wildcats had gone winless in 27 straight games.

Snyder resurrected the program, and his incredible feat has been dubbed the “Miracle in Manhattan.” The coach has won more than 60 percent of his games with the Wildcats, and the program has become a fixture in the bowl calendar.

Several coaches learned under Snyder’s tutelage, including Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops. The Sooner coach is always quick to credit Snyder for jumpstarting his career. See which coaches have stemmed from Snyder’s tree:

Coached running backs

under Leach from 2000-2002. He then guided Houston for

five years and is in his seventh season as

Baylor’s head coach.

Coached offense under

Leach from 2000-2007. He left to join

Houston’s staff but has been West Virginia’s

head coach since 2011.

Coached defense under

Leach from 2000-2009. He has been

East Carolina’s head coach since

2010.

Served as Stoops’ of-

fensive coordinator from 2007-2009. He

left to lead Louisiana Tech and is in his sec-

ond season as Cal’s head coach.

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offensive coordi-nator at Houston and Texas A&M. He is in his second season as

Texas Tech’s head coach.

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defensive coordi-nator at Arizona from 2004-2009. He is in his

second season as Kentucky’s head

coach.

Coached defense under

Snyder from 1989-1995. He left for the

defensive coordinator job at Florida before coming to Norman

in 1999.

Served as his broth-

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from 2012-2013.

Coached on Stoops’ staff

from 2003-2007. He left to become

Houston’s head coach and has led Texas A&M since 2011.

Coached offense under

Stoops from 1999-2001. He then served

as Kansas’ head coach until 2009 and is now Iowa State’s offensive

coordinator.

Worked under his

brother from 1999-2003. He then guided

Arizona for seven seasons before returning to OU as

defensive coordinator in 2012.

Coached offense under

Stoops from 2002-2010. He then left

Oklahoma for Indiana where he currently

serves as head coach.

Spent one season as

Stoops’ co-defensive coordinator in 2004. He

then spent three seasons at LSU and has served as

Nebraska’s head coach since 2008.

Coached offense under

Stoops from 2000-2005. He left to take the

head coaching job at San Diego State where

he stayed until 2008.

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The Sooners’ schedule often features four home games early in the season. While most fans enjoy

several opportunities to trek to Norman in September and October, the team pays a stiff penalty by having fewer home games late in the season.

This year, Oklahoma caught a break.Four of the team’s six home games will be played in

the end of the season, the value of which cannot be un-derstated. Despite an early loss at TCU, the schedule sets up well for OU to make a push for the conference crown.

Home dates against Kansas State, Baylor, Kansas and Oklahoma State make up four of the final six games.

Each of these teams gave the Sooners fits last season on the road. Yes, even Kansas. The Jayhawks led early in the game before OU realized it was playing football and took control. Kansas State and Oklahoma State

took Oklahoma down to the wire. Baylor took down Big Game Bob’s squad in a rowdy Thursday night match in Waco.

The team, coached by wizard Bill Snyder, coming to Norman Saturday was the second-most

recent squad to down the

Sooners at home. That was during

Kansas State’s

best season in school history. However, this is not the Wildcat team of 2012.

This year figures to be different for OU. With an 87-5 home record in the Stoops era, the magic of the Palace on the Prairie is known across the college football landscape.

Of course, there are penalties to pay for the lineup.As of Saturday, it will have been over a month since the Sooners played a game on Owen Field. Stoops said in a press conference before the Texas game that he didn’t prefer that long of a break between home games.

However, I implore the coach to think of things differently.

If all four teams due to visit Oklahoma got the Sooners away from Norman, the schedule would be much more daunting.

Baylor looks unbeatable in its shiny, new stadium. Oklahoma State would certainly be a tough test once again. It took three quarterbacks to win in Stillwater last year. Now, there are not even three quarterbacks on the Sooner roster ready to play.

Instead, Oklahoma only needs to travel to Iowa State and Texas Tech to close out 2014. While Ames, Iowa, can be daunting for opposing teams (just ask the Pokes), neither Tech nor Iowa State poses a serious threat to the Sooners.

It has been repeated over and over again by Sooner-faithful and media alike: This schedule sets up perfectly for a late-season run.

Despite an early stumble in Fort Worth, OU is still a major contender in not only the Big 12 but the College Football Playoff race as well.

brady vardeman | @bradyvardeman

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home field ADVANTAGELate season home games could help Sooners

Home dates against Kansas State, Baylor, Kansas and Oklahoma State make up four of the final six games.

Each of these teams gave the Sooners fits last season on the road. Yes, even Kansas. The Jayhawks led early in the game before OU realized it was playing football and took control. Kansas State and Oklahoma State

took Oklahoma down to the wire. Baylor took down Big Game Bob’s squad in a rowdy Thursday night match in Waco.

The team, coached by wizard Bill Snyder, coming to Norman Saturday was the second-most

recent squad to down the

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After Kansas State’s six-point loss to then No.5 Auburn at home on

a Thursday night in September, Wildcat coach Bill Snyder told reporters that his team beat itself.

He was right. An interception in the endzone and three missed field goals deprived Kansas State of an upset and national-recognition. Well, sort of.

Even though its schedule shows a loss for the Auburn game, teams around the Big 12 took notice of Snyder’s Wildcats. After an off-season that seemed to only feature talk of Oklahoma and Baylor winning the conference, Kansas State looked like the third contender.

Since its battle with the Tigers, Kansas State has downed UTEP and Texas Tech to improve to 5-1. It enters battle against Oklahoma on Saturday

with a quarterback who leads the team in both passing

and rushing.“ I d o n ’ t s e e

it as out of the norm,” Snyder s a i d . “ T h a t ’s what our quar-terback does.”

That quarter-back, senior Jake

Waters, has more than a little help on

the offensive side of the ball. Through five

games, receivers Tyler

Lockett and Curry Sexton have hauled in nearly 750 of Waters’ 1206 passing yards.

Lockett and Sexton have managed to find the endzone three and two times, respectively.

On the ground, Waters leads the at-tack, but running back Charles Jones is not far behind. Jones is re-sponsible for 293 yards and eight touchdowns. Second-string DeMarcus Robinson has been get-ting in on things, as well. The senior has 208 yards and three touchdowns on just five less snaps.

The name of the game for these Wildcats is balance. Often called “Snyderball,” Kansas State is renowned for sticking to its game plan and playing mistake free football.

Oklahoma players raved about Kansas State’s style of play Monday.

“[Kansas State] has a ton of packages where they can run a lot,” sophomore linebacker Jordan Evans said in a press conference. “It’s up to us to be students of the game.”

Snyder, while known for his team’s style of play, will go down as one of the greatest coaches in college football his-tory for the turnaround he’s managed

— “The Miracle in Manhattan.”Before his arrival in 1989, Kansas

State had a cumulative record of 299-510 (.370), the worst in major college football history and had not seen a conference championship trophy in 55 years. While that is certainly a bad run,

the Wildcats had not won a game since October 1986, recording 26 losses and a tie.

Since then, Snyder has given Wildcat-faithful two Big 12 titles and three berths in BCS bowls. Kansas State players have been named All-Americans 34 times and drafted into the NFL 48 times.

The Snyder coaching tree is huge. Eight of his former assistants have

gone on to become head coaches at the FBS level, including Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops.

When Snyder retired from Kansas State in 2005, the football stadium was renamed Bill Synder Family Stadium. During his “final” game (he would re-turn three years later), the coach ad-dressed the fans that so loved and adored him for what he did for Kansas State football.

“I hope you understand that you are my family as well,” Snyder said.

“It’s up to us to be

students of the

game.”

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Illustration of Kansas State Helmet by Danielle Wierenga

careful kansas stateThe Sooners face the Wildcats Saturday, known for their mistake-free football

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HomeSTILL COMING Homecoming traditions last through the years, but the fashions have changed. We dug up some photos in our archives for your enjoyment with their original descriptions:

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Craig Buchan, business finance senior, and Kristin Eckstein, second-ary English education senior, won homecoming king and queen titles.

OU ROYALTY: Oklahoma senior Mike McCall, president of Delta Tau Delta, and Tulsa senior Andi Nolan, president of Pi Beta Phi, were named homecoming king and queen Saturday during halftime of the Iowa State football game.

Amy Root, Norman senior, center, was named OU’s homecoming queen at Saturday’s game. Finalists were: (left to right) May Chang, Tulsa senior; Marjori Maddox Krebs, Colorado City, Texas senior; Vicki Malone, Oklahoma City senior; Liz Woodward, Sand Springs senior.

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Ashley Meador, zoology and biomedical science senior, and David Proctor, political science senior, were crowned homecoming queen and king for 2004. Meador was nominated by Kappa Kappa Gamma. Proctor was nominated by Beta Theta Pi.

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meetTen seniors from various programs and student

organizations were chosen to serve on the 2014 homecoming court. Students could vote for homecom-ing king and queen online Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the CAC’s Facebook page. The king and queen will be announced at halftime of Saturday’s foot-ball game. Take a look at the next page to read the can-didates’ answers to the question, “As a representative of OU students, what would you want to tell your fellow Sooners?”

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R e p r e s e n t i n g : S t u d e n t Government Association

A: I would just tell them that homecoming is really a special time for OU to try to celebrate our traditions, our history and the CAC homecoming committee has put so much work into this week. They’ve made lots of great events, and I just really hope peo-ple attend those events because I know that it would really mean a lot to the people who worked so hard to plan it.

Major: public relationsRepresenting: Alpha Gamma

DeltaA: I think just really be pas-

sionate about what you do and make sure you’re making a dif-ference with what you do. I think not doing things for the résumé or campus climbing, all that stuff — it’s not about that. It’s really about being passionate about what you do and really making a difference in the lives of the peo-ple you’re around.

Major: psychologyRepresenting: Crimson ClubA: OU is very interesting in that

it, from my experience, employs a lot of faculty and staff that really do care for students. Sometimes students might not take full ad-vantage of that. I sense that, ob-viously it’s hard for them to reach out to the entire student base, but from my experience and from a few people I know, if you reach out to the faculty and staff here, they’re so warm, and they’re very nice. And they’ve made my expe-rience at OU amazing and com-pletely different than if I had just gone at it alone or even just with my friends or my peers.

Major: human relationsRepresenting: Kappa Kappa

GammaA: I hope students continue

to get involved in homecoming activities throughout the week, as it has been such a longstand-ing tradition at OU. There are so many opportunities to unite both students and alumni, and I hope everyone takes advantage of this.

Major: international studiesRepresenting: Kappa Alpha

Theta A: Enjoy your friendships and

relationships that you make during undergrad… Just contin-ue to seek out people and try to invest in them, but also remem-ber to look up and hold yourself to a standard of grace and power through these four years of col-lege because they fly by.

Major: Spanish, health and ex-ercise science

Representing: Chi OmegaA: I think that, I’m definite-

ly grateful to be in this position. And, I know that one of the things I’ve found that’s helpful during my college experience is being willing to be vulnerable and ask for advice and ask for help. So just being willing to seek out ad-vice and seeking out those rela-tionships with other people … and just kind of enjoying that relationship.

Major : public affairs and administration

R e p r e s e n t i n g : C a m p u s Activities Council

A: Be thankful for the op-portunity we have to go to the University of Oklahoma. Show gratitude to those that helped you get here and seize every op-portunity that OU has to offer.

Major: public relationsRepresenting: Interfraternity

Council A: Something I constantly have

to remind myself is a quote from Walt Disney: “If you can dream it, you can do it.” I know it sounds cheesy — I mean, it’s Disney — but it’s true. Look at things in the news, like how high student debt is … seniors like me are going into that world, and they think, “There’s nothing we can do.” The quote, I think, says not to be a vic-tim of circumstance: we have a spot in the world as Sooners, we just have to claim it.

Major: psychologyR e p r e s e n t i n g : U n i o n

Programming BoardA: To rephrase the question ... I

hope I represent an appreciation for tradition, deviation from the norm, and that ... whatever you want to do, just go out and do it.

M a j o r : a c c o u n t i n g a n d finance

Representing: Beta Theta PiA: This is your university; take

advantage of it while you can, give back to it when you’re alum-ni and just take all the opportuni-ties you can here.

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Bringing alumni back year after year

Homecoming History

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Original cutline from 1950: “Work on Homecoming decorations begins in earnest at the Gamma Phi Beta house. The girls are (left to right) Pat Lindsay; Joan Mouser; Wynona Pirkle; Susanna Abbott; Joice Lockard and Mary Louise Lee.”

We celebrate homecoming every year. But what is it?

The short answer: It’s a way to bring alumni back to campus.

For the long answer, The Daily reached out to this year’s homecoming committee, which was tasked with coordinating the homecom-ing festivities.

Here’s what they had to say:

“This is all for the alum-ni, hands down,” said Chloe Tadlock, Campus Activities Council Homecoming chair-person. “We can put on events for students all day every day, but this is their opportunity to come home.”

Because of the different contributions alumni make for OU, homecoming is a way to bring them back to campus to see how those contributions have shaped the university, said Johnson Truong, Campus Activities Council vice chairperson of finance.

“Alumni are our foundation,” said Truong, a human relations junior. “They fund everything from scholar-ships to buildings. They did go to this university, and they have this attachment that only alumni can have after they leave.”

While homecoming was started for alumni, that message has been lost over the years, Tadlock said.

“A lot of our students view it as a competition, but I think that this year we were able to shift the focus some so students realize a little more that it’s not about themselves,” Tadlock said.

As they planned events for homecoming week, Campus Activity Council members tried to schedule events that would bring the alumni and current stu-dents together, said Madison Perry, vice chairperson of programming for the council.

“For most participants, they don’t see as much of the alumni as we do because we’re planning events for

them,” said Perry, a business management junior. “I think getting alumni, current students and prospec-tive students all in one place for a night, like at the pep rally, will really connect for younger students why we are celebrating.”

By bridging this gap between alumni, current stu-dents and prospective students, homecoming creates a strong sense of unity on campus that is not found with high school homecoming celebrations, Perry said.

“In high school, you don’t really have a choice where you go,” Perry said. “But here, we all chose to

come to OU. Everybody who participates in home-coming, alumni, prospective students, whatever — we all share that one thing. I think that makes a world of difference.”

Homecoming celebrations also reach out to pro-spective students who will have seats in the current student section of the pep rally on Friday, Perry said.

“If a prospective student is unsure and they come to homecoming and see this giant community, then they’ll think that they can belong here,” Perry said.

In the future, CAC hopes to incorporate the commu-nity in homecoming celebrations, Tadlock said.

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You Are Invited!Class of 2015

Ring Ceremony Honoring Sooner Historian

and OU Alumna

Carol BurrHonorary Ring Recipient and Homecoming Parade Marshal

urr has chronicled decades of the life of OU, providing a rich, historic archive of the people and events that shaped the institution. Her distinguished career has centered on OU and Sooner Magazine, as well

as OU historical publications. In 1980, she was editor of the institution’s 90th anniversary history, �e Sooner Story: Ninety Years at the University of Oklahoma 1890-1980. Since 1980, she has served as director of publications for the OU Foundation and as editor of Sooner Magazine. She also served as author and editor of Centennial: A Portrait of the University of Oklahoma.

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Housing center student association

“James and the giant peach”

board smorgasbordThe editorial board voted on our favorite homecoming decorations. Here are the winners (in no particular order):

union programming board and camp crimson

“Where the wild things are”

kappa kappa gamma, lambda chi alpha,

lambda phi epsilon, phi kappa psi

“Water for elephants”photos by tony ragle/the daily

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Original cutline: “Building a float can sometimes turn into a group effort, which the men of Alpha Sigma Phi and the women of Alpha Chi Omega prove.”

photo provided

Carol Burr, OU alumna and homecoming parade marshal

SOONERS onParadeParticipants prepare for the annual procession

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As homecoming week continues, students and student groups are preparing for the home-

coming parade this Saturday.The parade, an OU tradition, will begin at 8 a.m.

Saturday near Campus Corner on Boyd Street, and will be led by parade marshal Carol Burr.

Burr, a 1959 OU alumna and longtime faculty member, said it was “very gratifying and very gener-ous of the University” to select her as this year’s pa-rade marshal.

Burr has been the director of publications for the OU Foundation since 1980, and has served as the

editor of Sooner Magazine multiple times. Burr also wrote OU’s 90th anniversary history, “The Sooner Story: Ninety Years at the University of Oklahoma 1890-1980.”

Although the position of parade marshal is largely ceremonial, Burr was still pleased.

“The only responsibilities I have are riding in the parade,” Burr said. “But I think it will be a lot of fun.”

The parade marshal will lead the parade in a horse-drawn carriage and function as a guest of OU President David Boren, Burr said.

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A Kappa Kappa Gamma member pomps for Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Kappa Psi’s homecoming float on Tuesday night at Phi Kappa Psi.

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