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

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

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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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HOMECOMING Regatta first in two years The event which closed the class competitions was the Molcomb Re- gatta, the first in two years. Two in- flatable rafts were launched from the Carillon steps onto Holcomb Fond. Teams were made up of two people, a male and a female, who had to switch places on the raft in the middle of the pond before go- ing around a buoy. Consequently, some students were dumped into the murky pond. Freshmen won the event. Seniors won the class competi- tions, and juniors placed second, the freshman third, and the sopho- mores last. Alpha Chi Omega won Freshman Skits at Clowes Hall, and a bonfire in Irwin Library Field followed. Few Butler students were awake illlliif! Oreg Weeks The Junior Class loses the tug-of-war competi- tion to the seniors. to watch the annual Phi Delta The- ta Sigma Chi chariot race at 9:30 a.m. The Sigma Chis won the chari- ot race, narrowly defeating the Phi Delts and taking home the coveted keg of beer. At 11:50 a.m. a Homecoming Buf- fet Luncheon was held in Hinkle Fieldhouse for students and alum- ni. The Homecoming Queen candi- dates were introduced, and Butler Pizazz performed several numbers including the theme for Homecom- ing 1987, If They Could See Us now. After the game many students grabbed a bite to eat and prepared for the Homecoming Dance being held at the Sheraton Meridian Ho- tel from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. By Greg Weeks Cindy Larkey The 1987 Homecoming Queen candidates were: front, Oaye Bumsworth, Schwitzer Hall: Michele Dickey. Schwitzer: Florie Theofanis, Kappa Alpha Theta; Elizabeth Allen. Pi Beta Phi: Jacqueline Good. Delta Gamma: back. Lisa Bob Stalcup Young. Delta Delta Delta: Lisa Ann Wilson, Ross Hall: Michelle Moye, Kappa Kappa Oamma; Oa- briela Marinkovic, Schwitzer: Cheryl Ruklic, Al- pha Chi Omega, and Tracy Barron, Alphi Phi.