The Griffon News

As the Homcoming week wrapped up, besides the annual drenched students who were out to support the Griffons, the tired organizations who have spent night and day working on the floats, and the exhausted steering commitee who have worked hard for months, most students involved with homecoming have a bitter taste in their mouth. “The Best Homecoming Ever,” was this year’s theme… More like the worst.

Before homecoming week even started there were questions arising as to why homecoming was moved. Homecoming was moved one week up in the schedule from last year’s freezing mess because “It always rains.”

“He moved this up a week because it always rains on us and it’s always so cold and we always miss school the next week because we have pneumonia,” says one of the student workers in the CSE who was on hand for the date switch.

The intentions were good, we suppose. But because someone fancied himself the world’s best meteorologist, Homecoming was scheduled on a three day weekend.

That’s not necessarily horrible in itself except that lots of college students see three day weekends as their chance to go home and reconnect with family and friends.

Also, Pumpkin Fest, a known festival for children, was scheduled that same weekend, including a parade on Saturday. So at the slightest hint of bad weather, most parents aren’t going to drag their children out to two parades in pouring rain.

Thats not a great way to show that Missouri Western supports the community by trying to compete with a known community event. Plus, they had advertisment constantly on the television,  we would lose that battle.

So planning Homecoming for this weekend made sense how?

But as Saturday rolled around, and the rain continued to fall on the cursed homecoming parade day, one thing was different. No, it wasn’t freezing rain, it was lighting. And apparently, floats are lightning rods and having people out on them is not a good idea.

So for one of the first times in a long while, the parade was cancelled.

We think most organizations would have taken the freezing rain and letting their hard work be shown, than lightning, no parade and working hard to line up with halfway torn down floats at the library.

That is the other thing. When organization arrived for the parade line-up, with their soggy floats, they were told it was cancelled. They weren’t told until later that they were suppose to meet at 10 a.m. in the library parking lot for judging.

Several organization had already taken parts of their floats down or the water had destroyed important parts. They were told to fix their float and be judged. Because after staying up for 24 hours working on a float, then driving the float in the pourng rain, they want to come back to the float site and work for several more hours fixing something that didn’t have to be fixed in the first place if a phone call had been made 30 minutes earlier saying the parade was cancelled and judging was at 10 a.m.

So, besides the lack of spirit around campus with the no windows (thanks stupid people that don’t know how to clean things off properly or used spray paint), the lack of greek participation for various reasons and the overall bad timing.

This homecoming has to be one of the worst homecomings in a long time. (Not to discredit any of the hard work the steering committee put out)  Thanks a lot Stan… Oh yes, he no longer works here.

Also, if your going to run for homecoming king, make sure you can actually show  up and get your crown. Football players have won in the past and stood out there in their football uniform to celebrate their win.
 
After all of this we would say that we were jinxed from the begining. So never name Homecoming the “Best Week Ever,” you’re  just asking for trouble.