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•emember it for next year. Scheele said. Rally Committee and Superb sfiowed Animal ouse In Wheeler Auditorium that night. :hristy Slojo. a sophomore sociology major and s the publicity coordinator for Rally Commit- :ee. said, People were very enthusiastic about omecoming. Some people came to Animal ouse dressed up in togas in the spirit of the novie. Tuesday was the Homecoming Banner :ompetition, which offered a $500 cash prize to ;he student group that won. The banners were ung on the balconies of the Martin Luther (ing Student Union building for the duration )f the week. Tuesday nighthad a colloquium n Anderson Auditorium in the Haas School of Jusiness. sponsored by the Rally Committee. ' I feel the most successful event that we held other than the Homecoming Rally] was our Homecoming colloquium, where we had three )f our Nobel laureates on campus and one of )ur Pulitzer Prize winners speal . Siojo said. It was a really great way to get people spirited bout Cal. Rallies are one thing, but when you ;et some of our prize-winning professors to ;peak about their experiences at Cal and how nuch they love the university, it ' s a different ay of getting people spirited. Late Tuesday night was the California Caba- et at the international House, which featured tudent singers and dancers. Auditions were eld in Morrison Hall a week before the show, bn Sunday, three days prior to the show, there Lvas a rehearsal, where individual students and jroups each performed their own acts. There were 12 acts ranging from singing and dancing to comedy, including a men ' s a capella group jnd a group of Hawaiian dancers. Acts ranged from well-established campus groups to fresh faces that put on their first performance here after just meeting in the dormitory. Thais Zayas-Baz3n, a fifth-year majoring in integra- tive biology, who performed At Last, was disappointed in the turnout of the audience ind felt the program could have been adver- tised better. It was disappointing that a lot of jeople didn ' t show up, Zayas-Bazan said, But. IS a performer. 1 think it ' s not so much the turnout but the experience. But from the audi- ence standpoint, the more people there are. the more the audience thinks it ' s a better show Students found themselves waiting in long Flines on upper Sproul Plaza on Wednesday as lu.SOO free white T-shirts with this year ' s home- coming logo on the front were given away. Simon felt that this was the most successful event of the week because students wore the shirts even weeks after Homecoming. This proved that the culture around Homecoming isn ' t just a one-time thing. Showcase on the Steps. designed to celebrate Cal student performances featured various cultural student groups, such as Cal Wushu. Theater Rice and the Movement. Those groups can go and reserve the steps themselves, but we wanted to highlight several groups, so we facilitated that by reserving the area and setting it up. said Matt Aguiar, a third-year majoring in economics and the chair of the Student Homecoming Team. Thursday featured the Cal Can Creation Competition in which various student groups created constructions out of canned food on lower Sproul Plaza. It was great to see a Creek Week team win the ' construction ' and then be covered in all the major Bay Area newspapers. Through involvement in Homecoming, we were able to increase the expose of the Creek Com- munity in a positive way. showing the Greeks giving back, said Simon. Over 1,840 pounds of canned food was donated to the Alameda County Food Bank. Julia Ungert, a third year majoring in busi- ness, was the assistant chair and felt that this was the most successful event since: It was philanthropic, but it also got so many groups involved, and it was really visible. This was one of the events we were really unsure about, since it was the first year, but it was something that really shone through. The Battle of the Brains, a Jeopardy-like contest between students and faculty, took place was on Thursday night. The questions Proudly displaying their free Hometoming T-shirts, lonaihjn Chun, len Seto, Connie Chou and Justin Uu were Just few of the students who wilted In long lines to receive them total of J.500 free T-shirts were given awiy In a single afternoon. In one of the most popular events of the weel
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The Cal Dance Team and Cal Band perform during Homecoming Week. This year, spirit was raised with lots of activities for students to partici- pate In throughout the week. Typically sponsored by the California Alumni Association, this year ' s festivities involved a student comittee which has not existed since 1964. Previously. Homecoming Weekend focused on parents with Parent ' s Weekend and the alumni with little emphasis on the stu- dents. In 1997. the California Alumni Associa- tion and the Office of the University Relations worked to bring Homecoming Weekend back to campus after 40 years. In 1999. Parents ' Weekend was added to the Homecoming celebration. The number of activities this year more than doubled, and they were specifically designed to incorporate students into the spirit of Homecoming. To me. if students don ' t have a student experience of something. It ' s almost impossible to expect them to want to come back as alumni and want to experience It again, said Jason Simon, the advisor to the Homecoming Team for the California Alumm Association. It was important to make a big deal about (Homecoming Week] to show students that Homecoming is something that is for them and that when they are invited back for a class reunion, or just to come back to Homecoming in general, they have a picture in the back of their mind, a memory, a fun experience with friends, a free T-shirt that can draw them back in. The California Alumni Association spent SiS.ooo for Homecoming Week and the Student Homecoming Team raised S28,ooo from local businesses and corporations. For me, that ' s the unspoken success story. Simon said. For a first year project, that these 19 student leaders were able to raise S28.000 just blows me away. It shows the real potential that outside corporations and community groups can see with Homecoming. I think it ' s just going to grow even bigger since it is one of the few events on campus that truly strives to bring everyone together. It ' s very rare that there ' s one week of events that can bring everyone together to celebrate this place. The week ' s festivities began with Homecom- ing Kick Off and Fenton ' s ice Cream Giveaway, fenton ' s Creamery donated over 4,000 scoops of ice cream. For Emily Scheele. the publicity and marketing coordinator, and a sophomort majoring in political science, this first event was the most memorable of all of the week ' s events. Every person 1 told before the event happened said, ' Free ice cream? I ' m there! ' Ar I think that sticks in their minds, and they ' ll
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An ilumni returns to Cal for Homecoming md reflects on fiis time fiere on campus. Alumni represented generitlons past of Ca md allowed students to get a greater sense of tfie history of Cal ranged from academics and current events to Cal trivia. The students left victorious with 4.200 points, while the faculty scored 3.500 points. It was a nice opportunity for the fac- ulty and students to get together, because on this campus, except for office hours, it ' s really tough to see faculty outside the classroom or In the lab. I liked the fact that the audience got to see the human side of some of the faculty. said Simon. Johnny Moseley. the 1998 Olympic gold medal winner in the moguls, participated o n the student side, despite the fact that he had two midterms the next day. Students were very excited about this event and numerous people came up to Scheele asking her how to become a member of the student team. Audience members had the chance to win four roundtrip tickets to anywhere in the United States, cour- tesy of Southwest Airlines. What would Homecoming be without a rally? On Friday there was not one. but two rallies. The first was the noon rally on Sproui and the second was a rally at 7 p.m. in Haas Pavilion, the culmination of the week for the Rally Committee. The rally was huge this year. said Simon. I would like to think that was because there were some really nice synergies and marketing opportunities. The fact that we were able to get them their posters two and a half to three weeks before the rally gave Rally Committee a lot of time to prepare and get people to come Immediately following the Homecom- ing Rally. Cal Illuminated: A Retrospective Experience left from the Alumni House with approximately 200 people. This nighttime tour of campus, sponsored by the California Alumni Association Student Homecoming Team, Peefs Coffee and Tea. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Semifreddi ' s Bakery, allowed participants to experience the beauty, history and folklore of Cal through a guided tour by blue-and-gold glow sticks. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Memorial Clade was filled with children partaking in the Homecom ing Carnival and Cubfest on Saturday, which has happened for the past five years. There were 18 student organizations that hosted 25 booths. Among the activities were a balloon artist, face painting, carnival games, arts and crafts, and a pie toss. In terms of numbers, the Carnival and Cubfest was the biggest event of the week, with 740 people in attendance. 250 of which were children. It was really good because 1 saw parents, students, faculty-the future, present and past, of Cal-all together at once. said Aguiar. i see [Cubfest) as the per- sonification of what Homecoming is supposed to be Football was not the only sporting event ivolved in the multitude of homecoming activi ties. Before the football game on Saturday, the California women faced off against the University of the Pacific in a field hockey game at Maxwell Family Field and won in overtime, and the men competed In ice hockey against use. Sunday featured the men ' s soccer matct
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