Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, October 17, 1997, Page 5B, Image 25

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    Homecoming Events
TODAY
■ Pep Rally:
EMU East Lawn
Noon to 1 p.m.
■ Students Activities Fair:
EMU East Lawn
2 to 5 p.m.
■ Duck Party:
Valley River Inn
9 p.m to midnight
$10 per person
$8 UOAA dues-paying
member
■ Class Reunions:
UO campus and Valley River
Inn
SATURDAY
a 3K/5K Campus Fun Run:
Starts at Johnson Hall
9 a.m..
$12 per person
$10 UOAA dues-paying
member (preregistration
required)
a Duck Tailgate Party:
Alumni Tent, Autzen Stadium
10:30 a.m.
Free
a Homecoming Expo:
Autzen Stadium,
Stadium Piazza
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Free
SUNDAY
a The Grind:
Intramural field behind Mac
Court
1 to 10 p.m.
Free
Pep rally kicks off Homecoming events
The Alumni Association
said this year’s events
will involve more
students
By Doug Irving
Student Activities Editot
Thousands of Uni versity alum
ni will crowd Eugene this week
end. Parents will rush into town.
And most of the student body isn’t
going anywhere.
So how do you amuse the mass
es on Homecoming Weekend?
You throw a “baby boomer”
dance. You set up booths to edu
cate people about University pro
grams and opportunities. You
schedule a football game against a
nonconference opponent. And
you get people to run a few kilo
meters.
That’s exactly what the alumni
associations plan to do.
“It’s a chance to meet more peo
ple," said Julie Smith, homecom
ing chair for the Student Alumni
Association. That association
worked with the Alumni Associa
tion to organize most of the week’s
activities. “It’s more of a student
activity this year. It’s gonna be
fun.”
Many students had said they re
sented the focus on alumni and
parents at previous homecomings.
The weekend activities were
aimed at older people, they said.
Student activities had dominat
ed Homecoming until the mid
1960s. Students marched through
Eugene, painted the UO sign on
Skinner’s Butte, threw parties and
celebrated Homecoming.
Homecoming '97 doesn’t quite
return to that, said Kelly Evans, as
sistant director of communica
tions for the Alumni Association.
Still, this Homecoming should in
volve students better than last
year’s, she said.
“There are almost two different
sides to Homecoming this year,”
she said. "There are alumni events
and there are student events.”
Homecoming events started
Monday, with a University-wide
scavenger hunt. The Alumni As
sociation printed clues every day
in the Emerald’s classified ads; the
winner of the hunt will take home
a gift certificate for dinner at West
Brothers or Mona Lisa.
The actual Homecoming Week
end begins today with a pep rally
from noon to 1 p.m. on the EMU
East Lawn. The Oregon marching
Band, cheerleaders and the Duck
mascot will be there. Football
head coach Mike Bellotti will
speak, and Oregon sports caster
Jerry Allen will be the Master of
Ceremonies.
Student programs will also staff
an activity fair after the rally.
About a dozen student groups will
look for new recruits. Students
can also test their skills at guess
ing games and miniature golf.
A “Duck Party” will close to
day’s activities. The dance, at Val
ley River Inn, is designed for
alumni, but students of legal
drinking age and parents can also
attend. The Bouncing Baby
Boomer Band and the Legendary
Boomettes will perform. The
dance costs $10 per person.
Saturday — the heart of Home
coming — opens with a Campus
Fun Run for students, parents and
alumni. Runners can chose to am
3 or 5 kilometers; winners of the
5K race will get a pair of Nike
shoes. The nin starts at Johnson
Hall at 9 a.m. and costs $12.
The main weekend event—the
ballgame — kicks off at 1 p.m. in
Autzen Stadium. The Ducks take
on the Utah Utes.
The Alumni Association has or
ganized a student march to the
game in past homecomings, but
gave that idea up this year.
"Everybody kind of does their
own thing before the game, any
way,” Smith said.
Homecoming ends Sunday
with the rescheduled Oregon
grind. The "funky” concert is usu
ally held Spring term, but was
moved to Homecoming Weekend
to attract students, said Jonathan
Zwickel, spokesman for the Cul
tural Forum.
The Cultural Forum still orga
nizes the event. This year's acts
include Weapon of Choice,
Broun Fellinis, and Mumblin’
Jim. The concerts will be on the
Intramural Field behind
MacArthur Court.
“Kids should get their money’s
worth,” Zwickel said. "It’s kind of
a closer for the weekend. ”
The alumni associations don’t
slant the activities toward stu
dents or alumni, Evans said. Stu
dents who want a more active stu
dent homecoming should
organize events, like they did in
past years, she said.
“Our biggest thing is to get more
and more people involved,"
Evans said. “We just try to bring
people together and make them
feel good about the University.”
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