Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Homecoming festivities for 1987 had been un- derway for more than a day when Florie Theo- fanis of Kappa Alpha Theta was crowned Home- coming Queen at half-time of the Butler vs. University of Evansville football game. After her crowning, the Butler University Marching Band paid tribute to the 20th anniver- sary of the Beatles with its rendition of Sgt. Pepper ' s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the football team returned to the field to tie the Purple Aces, 28-28. The sights and sounds of Homecoming began at noon on Friday with the dismissal of classes. After lunch, students swarmed to Atherton Cen- ter mall for class competitions including tug-of- war, the banana split, waterama relay, a water balloon toss and the Holcomb Regatta. Seniors triumphed in the tug-of-war over the juniors and freshmen, and sophomores won the consolation prize by defeating the freshmen. The banana split called for putting a banana be- tween the competitor ' s legs and watching him jump, hope or somehow move himself from one end of the mall to the other. In this event, the juniors finished first, fol- lowed closely by the sen- iors. The waterama relay in- volved carrying a tray with cups of water in one hand back and forth across the mall, switch- ing people each time, and adding a cup of wa- ter for each trip. The sen- iors won the event, while sophomores placed second. The competitions moved forward with the wa- ter balloon toss and the Regatta. These turned out to be the slimiest events. In the toss, vegetable-oil-covered water balloons were tossed from person to person. The team with the most unbroken balloons at the other end of the line, the seniors, won the event. Afterwards, the teams engaged in a water bal- loon free-for-all on the mall. Far above, sophomores participate in tug-of-war competition during Homecom- ing. Above, Mark Banicldow and Julie James, president and treasurer of Stu- dent Assembly, inflate rafts for the hol- comb Regatta. Above, right, Joelle Coul- son, a freshman, competes in the banana split relay.

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( £a i Cf C ' (j I — The 21 Club has opened in the C-Club to promote responsible drinking, without driving. It ' s to bad the hours are so early — 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. — encouraging students to begin drinking earlier in the day than usual. — Sexual promiscuity is out; AIDS is in. — Cajun food is winning the tastebuds of America. — Butler ' s endowment suffered a 25 percent drop in value the first week of the stock market crash — a loss of $300,000 the university would have received. — Dirty Dancing, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Qrey, created the biggest dancing revival since Saturday night Fever, with John Travolta. — Butler has been ranked one of the best col- leges in the United States, according to U.S. Mews and World Report. Of those schools named the best, however, Butler ' s freshmen acceptance rate of 90 percent is one of the highest, while its mean SAT score of 1020 is only average. — L.A. Law is hot; Dallas Is not. — A new residence hall may be needed if enroll- ment continues to increase and renovation is start- ed on Ross and Schwitzer halls. Greg Weeks Demarco (D.J.) Johnson of Ross Mall is shocked and appalled by a photographer. Far above, Alexa liollingsworth of Alpha Chi Ome- ga, Jams to the beat during freshmen Skits. Above, Q-95 ' s Bob and Tom broadcast their morning show live from Atherton Center. I I

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Freshmen compete in Homecom- ing s holcomb Regatta. Ttiey won the event.