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Homecoming
The Student Government Association and the IFC(for GLOs) will usually give money to registered organizations to help them pay for their float. The float contest is open to any registered organization. There's usually a spending limit for participants that wish to have their floats judged for contest. This makes sure that some people don't go to overboard and blow everyone else out. The judging takes place the night before the parade. Judges will go to each different house and rate the floats. A good way to get money and help, and what a lot of people do, is to find a sponsor. It could be a local nightclub, a business, or whatever and just as long as you promote their business along with your letters or organization name it's cool. We usually have a Bonfire that week also. At this event groups and lots of Greeks, come up with chats, routines, screams, songs, whatever and compete for trophys. In addition to that there's a yell like hell competition. The nominations for king and queen are submitted to SGA and the running nominates attend the bonfire. All the while, about 2 weeks before, ballots open up at the student union and people of the student body are allowed to vote for their couple. The king and queen and the royal court are then announced at the bonfire. We had a really cool time doing all this even though mother nature sabotaged our float the night before the parade(We all pulled allnighters and had it good as new for the parade) and made life hell. In addition to that, we had an activity scheduled that night so immediately after the activity, our soaking sorry #$%*&&^% made it back at 2:00a.m. and started working. During the running period we all made signs and posted them all over campus with "Vote for....". There were even rules for this. We couldn't post a sign 60 ft. from the union and they had to be a certain sign to be legal and uniform. I hope some of this helps. Fraternally, Mystic Cat32
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