{"id":130,"date":"2016-02-17T20:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/hocoming-2011-its-a-wrap\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:47:53","slug":"hocoming-2011-its-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/hocoming-2011-its-a-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming 2011: It’s a wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>OCTOBER 25, 2011
\nBy Allison Davey ’13, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n

Homecoming was, by almost all accounts, a tremendous success.\u00a0 The weather was crisp, the competitions were entertaining, and our athletic teams were victorious. \u00a0University photographer Jeremy Fleming and student photographers Thomas Nantz and Casey Evans were there to capture some of\u00a0the scenes<\/a> of the weekend event.<\/p>\n

Throughout the weekend teams composed of pairings of fraternities and sororities or of individual groups faced off in a number of activities and competitions including chalking, banners, skits, cheers, T-shirts, and floats.\u00a0 Each competition was judged separately, and scores were added\u00a0at the end of the week to determine the winners.\u00a0 The awards were presented at halftime of the football game against Wofford.<\/p>\n

This year, Beta Theta Pi paired with Kappa Delta to take\u00a0first place, followed by the pairing of Delta Delta Delta and Sigma Chi in second, and the Engaged Living program in third.<\/p>\n

The float competition, which accounts for the most points out of all the competitions, was won by Engaged Living.<\/p>\n

Students also participated in the Havoc competition, which required them to create a character and compete\u00a0throughout the week to win money for a charity of their choice. Competitors were required to sleep in a tent outside the library and were not allowed to change their costumes or even shower.<\/p>\n

Freshman Lannon Gustafson won the competition for her charity Youth Base. She raised close to $600 to\u00a0top\u00a0her competitors in a vote of the student body and of the Havoc members who had been eliminated.<\/p>\n

Gustafson pushed through when the going got tough and notes, \u201cI was so happy to get this opportunity to raise this money for the kids. The bus that the program uses broke down while I was in Havoc and it really motivated me to push to the end and do all I can for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of her experience, Gustafson says, \u201cMy favorite thing about Havoc was meeting people who were passionate about raising money for a charity or organization. Together, we raised $3800.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OCTOBER 25, 2011
\nBy Allison Davey ’13, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n

Homecoming was, by almost all accounts, a tremendous success.\u00a0 The weather was crisp, the competitions were entertaining, and our athletic teams were victorious. \u00a0University photographer Jeremy Fleming and student photographers Thomas Nantz and Casey Evans were there to capture some of the scenes<\/a> of the weekend event.<\/p>\n

Throughout the weekend teams composed of pairings of fraternities and sororities or of individual groups faced off in a number of activities and competitions including chalking, banners, skits, cheers, T-shirts, and floats.\u00a0 Each competition was judged separately, and scores were added up at the end of the week to determine the winners.\u00a0 The awards were presented at halftime of the football game against Wofford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,38,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-greek-life","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}