—The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 20,1978 Festivities for alumni to capture lion spirit By CYNTHIA HESS Daily Collegian Staff Writer The hoopla of Homecoming '7B will travel through campus tomorrow like toga parties spread through the country. The celebration, which originated on Oct. 9, 1920 with the Penn State- Dartmouth game, includes parades, bonfires, lawn displays, window displays, banners, floats, crazy bands and mad hats, all proving that “We are . . .Penn State!” Alumni return each year “to renew friendships with each other and their alma mater,” said John Black, a 1962 graduate and. assistant executive director of the Alumni Association and editor of the football letter. They will flood Beaver Stadium to see their alma mater tackle Syracuse, to watch the Blue Band perform another colorful show and to cheer with the spirited cheerleaders. The merchants in town anticipate a great deal of business before and after the game, with hundreds of people pouring into stores to buy Penn State paraphernalia. This weekend gives alumni the op portunity to visit their old fraternities, sororities, dorm floors and clubs with old school chums. Jay Schultz, co-chairman of the Homecoming Committee and a member Independents join in, too By BARBARA KLEIN Daily Collegian Staff Writer A non-Greek student no longer can claim Homecoming is all Greek to him. Throughout the years, Homecoming at the University was traditionally a Greek affair. Fraternities and sororities organized the festivities and were the major participants in the excitement. But this year’s “We Are Penn State” Homecoming has expanded to include independents from dormitories and non- Greek organizations. “Traditionally, Homecoming has always been Greek,” said Georgia Humes, co-chairman for this year’s activities. “We’re still the organizers, but now we’ve asked others to join in. “Everything we’re doing is still very traditional,” Humes added, “but it’s tradition with a little more flavor.” “We told organizations to let us know if they had anything going on and we 1 Read Et recycle The Collegian ( J &QQQ<dQOQQQQQQQQ&QQQQ&QQ(dQQ Support Joe's Lions on their ® their march to § 0 Number 1! © 9, , © 9 * © ® ... wear a jT'V © | tee-shirt to |l ® g every Game! \4f I\) % 0 / J if} © 0 / A TrL © ® Available at these )■ / \ V \ © 0 locations this Fri. & Sat.: I \ v. VOj q 0 \\ \ © O The Corner Room Sheraton ) J © 0 Holiday Inn Uncle Elis ® the Train Station Wuvfs 0 New World Headquarters Mt. Nittany Inn © 0 the Coffee Grinder at Toftrees ® 0 £ 0 © ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©€>©€>©© of the Intrafraternity Council, is op timistic about the weekend’s activities. “The parade will be twice as long, and the competitions have doubled,” he said. Schultz added that Homecoming is "not as big as it should be for the University’s size.” Restaurants such as the Corner, The Tavern and The Train Station expect to be extremely busy all afternoon and evening. The bars also expect a lot of business. The Shandygaff, the oldest saloon in town, hopes to draw many who return to reminisce. The Saloon plans to keep alumni busy with a Graduated Happy Hour, homecoming State College police say they do not anticipate any major problems with the crowds. They had no serious trouble in past years, and plan to treat Homecoming as any other homegame weekend. The police said they may make parking easier by lifting the overnight parking bans as they have done before. Homecoming planners, as well as townspeople, are working to make this weekend unforgetable, so that alumni will return home at the end of the weekend with the old Lion Spirit. could include it in the Homecoming schedule of events," co-chairman Jay Schultz said. But the major difference in getting people involved is the publicity, Humes said. “When I was a freshman and not in a sorority, I didn’t even know when Homecoming was,” she said. “What has really helped is the publicity, a lot more people know about it.” This semi-break with tradition has aroused the interest of 10 independent groups, creating independent as well as Greek divisions for the Homecoming competitions. "We hope to open up Homecoming,” Schultz said. “We hope to keep building on the independents.” However, in an effort to maintain the traditional aspect of Homecoming, the Greeks have nearly doubled last year’s number of entries. ~'~ rV^.v' “We are .. . Penn State,” was roared just as enthusiastically in 1951 as today, although with fewer voices. Helping to get the crowd “ Richard Weisberg, Norman Fryman and Ted Sykes. .The Greeks have 29 fraternities and sororities involved in this year’s ac tivities. They are required to participate in at least four of the five competitions. Independents may participate in one. The entry fee is $65 for Greeks and $lO for independents. The five competitions are: window decorating, floats, banners, standards and the mad hatter. Other activities planned include: a parade, bonfire, pep rally and an All- University tailgate. “Basically, the schedule stays the same,” Schultz said. “We really can’t change it.” The celebration will extend further into the week, but Schultz said most of the Homecoming is geared for the weekend. “A lot of it is for the alumni, and they won’t be here until the weekend anyway,” Schultz said. my little faerie, let us make great haste! To old Unde Eli's for our Christmas Shopping! It's never too early to prepare for the Yuletide.. Freshmen and Sepheweres: door to your future by applying for a position on The Daily Collegian Sales Staff. If you Open the hardworking adver or marketing and are inter ested in the exciting field of Advertising Sales, then come into 126 Carnegie before October 20th and fill out an application. '■«'■*** SWdiWW-fc''' '***?&*' Official on "most respected" list • Change magazine and the Ikenberry, previously with West three students maintain near perfect American Council on Education have Virginia University, came to the cumulative averages, as well as selected Stanley O. Ikenberry, senior University in 1969. giving time to various club activities, vice-president for administration at the University, one of “the most • Chris A. Schultz, Jeffrey P. _ _ „ respected leaders in higher Monaco and Joshua D. Bernoff, c - Gregory Knight, a education” today. respectively, have won the freshman, professor of geograp y Ikenberry is one of 100 persons sophomore and junior student prizes University retuirned recen y selected to be the subject of a feature offered by the College of Science years leave of spe article in the October issue of Alumni Society at the University. v.s.tmg professor of geographyat the Change, a magazine devoted to issues The $2OO awards, funded by alumni Jilt n ..n.Wsitv Knioht of interest in higher education. contributions, honor outstanding At the Nigerian university, Kmght The article will pay tribute “not to academic achievement and superior helped develop research programs o the past, but to the future —to 100 of performance in University and rural the most respected emerging leaders science activities. P rep „ ann ?.: : the in higher education.” Schultz is a sophomore majoring in Geographic Union Regio Nominees were required to be 45 chemistry; Monaco is a computer ference held July in years old or less, have records of science major in his junior year; and taught seminar courses on r significant accomplishments outside Bernoff is a mathematics major who management, a single institution, and show will graduate spring 1979 after only potential for national leadership. three years at the University. All —by Jill Connors Verily, my impetuous Lord, L know not wherefor we hasten. So soon? in truth, the leaves have barely turned/ L'm hip. Leave us now tarry no longer any more' here is Uncle Eli's? tising major 183 1 pL '^k & \ ■ *■'■ . 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