The Griffon News

On Oct. 13, at 4p.m. many sororities and fraternities got together for Donation Creation to put together something cool with the donated items. Phi Sigma Kappa built a boat out of canned vegetables. Sigma Sigma Sigma made a tank out of canned vegetables. There was much fun to be had and everyone was involved in the original creations. Brent Saving is a sophomore with Phi Sigma Kappa and was very excited about the event.

“We donated a lot of cans and we plan to have fun with this event,” Saving said. There was a huge turn out at this event. It was originally supposed to be held in the parking lot of Blum Union, but rain forced it inside in front of the cafeteria.

Gene Ryals is treasurer for the homecoming committee and was very impressed with how many people got involved.

“This has turned out to be bigger then last year, and is always getting bigger,” Ryals said. Senior Kali Conrad attended this event with her sisters in Sigma Sigma Sigma and was more into the idea of what it was all about.

“We wanted to donate a lot of food and after all it is for a good cause,” Conrad said. Donate they will certainly do. The lobby of Blum was full of canned goods, clothes, packaged items like noodles and many other things to be donated to the needy.

Then, later that night at 8 p.m. HC held Yell Like hell in Spratt room 101. All the different organizations got together and performed different skits. They did things like the Jeopardy show with George Bush, The Hornet, and Max the Griffon. They also performed a remix of different songs, adding homecoming themes to them. They also announced the homecoming king and queen candidates. All together there are ten candidates that will prove to be some stiff competition. There was a good turn out at this event as well; that only goes to show that word is spreading about the fun things H.C .sponsors.
On Oct. 14, the very next night at 7 p.m. In the Kemper Recital Hall, H.C. sponsored another event: They held the variety show. This was one event that shouldn’t have been missed. Although there was not a big gathering for this event, it would have proved to be a big one with better advertising and promoting. This was one of the HC’s first time deals. There were three groups that participated. There was a singer and guitar player that thrilled the crowd and some dancers that performed. The gathering was not as big as expected. Skye Callaway is homecoming tri-chair and explained.

“This is the first time we held this event and even though we didn’t have many contestants ,we expect it to grow by getting the word out,” Callaway said. The participation points go out to the over all H.C. points and are added to the organization that has participated in these events.