Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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Bearcat Royalty King Mac Mohi and Queen Nisha Bharti, wave to the crowd as they ride through the parade. The theme of the parade was Around the World. Plwlo by Kaylccn Vandc Knmpt Winning Float Sigma Sigma Sigma and Phi Sigma Kappa created an Asian float for the Around the World Homecoming theme. The groups received first place. Photo by Kayken Vimde Kamp D24 ■ Student life DD

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4f . !A 9 ' . -t: ■ - A ■■V ,« Ti K .V- ' - Late Night Sigma Sigma Sigma member, Melinda Bell, helps her sisters pomp late into the night. Sigma Sigma Sigma and Phi Sigma Kappa joined together to build a first place float. Phoio In Kayleen Vaiule Kamp Building Foundations Phi Sigma Kappa members. Matt Drummond and Matt Oyler, drill a frame together An Asian theme was used for the float. P ki(o In Kayleen Vande Kamp pre-homecominq • 23D DD

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journey home bringing us closer together This vear marked the 84th I lomecoming celebration. With the tlu ' ine Bobby Goes Around The World , man - creative ideas were used. I Beginning Oct. 22 and ending with the football game on Oct. 27, it made for six eventful davs. Homecoming festivities were open to all students, alumni, facultv, staff, familv, friends and members of the com- munity. Events included: banner, canned art, penny wars, parade entries. Variety Show skits. Walkout Dav and more. • VARIETY SHOW ■ In front of a crowded Performing Arts Center, students from Greek orga- nizations displayed their dancing, sing- ing and acting talents and performed in the annual Homecoming Varietv Show. Organizations prepared skits based on the specific theme of travel- ing around the world. Members of the audience witnessed acts such as Bobby Around the World: The Mascot Challenge performed by Alpha Gamma Rho and Sigma Society and Where in the World is Bobbv Bearcat bv Alpha Sigma Alpha and Phi Si ia Kappa. The Variety Show was probably my avorite part of Homecoming. It ' s some- hing different that you don ' t see in high ■school. It ' s just fun to see your friends jp there making you laugh, said Shelbie ight. Winning highly competitive skit was ' Indiana Jones and the Calendar Caper performed by Phi Mu Alpha and Sigma Alpha Iota. The Variety Show included olio acts to fill in time between skits. Olio acts are usually performed by members outside of the Greek community. This year ' s olio acts included dancing, singing and stand up comedy. First place was taken by Dan Rasmussen. Members of Homecoming Royalty were also presented during the Variety Show and the king and queen were crowned on opening night. Nisha Bharti, was crowned 2007 Homecoming queen and Mac Mohi was named king. • PARADE ■ On Saturday, crowds lined the streets from campus to the courthouse to witness what many students had spent countless hours preparing. Pomped floats, mini floats, paper mache clowns, students in costume dancing as clowns and many area marching bands made their way down Fourth Street for the Homecoming Parade. Many globes and travel acces- sories could be spotted throughout the parade, as organizations based their en- tries around the theme. Light walked in the parade as a pomped clown for her sorority, some- thing many Greeks endure throughout the years. Since I was in the parade I only got to see what was still going after I got done. I got to see my sorority ' s float and that was probably my favorite part of the parade. I really liked the guvs swimming in the back of a truck though too; that was crazy, Light said. Jalopy is another category for en- tries in the parade. Members of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity lined the back of a pickup truck with tarp before fill- ing it with water. Men would then splash around as the truck rolled slowly through the parade. Cross country runner, Amanda Gray, was able to witness her first Homecoming parade this year. In past years she had to miss out on many of the activities due to meets. I really wanted to see the parade since it would be my first time being on campus for Homecoming. Some of my friends met at my house before the pa- rade so we could sit together, Gray said. This year ' s parade seemed disap- pointing for many students. Nick Hager, was able to witness the parade for a third year. I wasn ' t as impressed with the pa- rade this year. It just seemed really long and slow. I really liked the clown heads though, Hager said. The parade was kind of a let down, Gray said. I was so excited for it and then it took so long my friends and I left early. The winning, highly competitive float was made bv the members of Phi Sigma Kappa and Sigma Sigma Sigma. Overall best parade went to Phi Mu and Phi Sigma Kappa. (Continued on page 26) 1 homecoming • 250 DD