Homecoming at Your School

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Originally posted by xo_sue
Hey ChiOChick!
Our homecoming is a huge deal and we had different classes of competition for the floats to make it more fair.

Class A would spend $800-$1200
Class C, on the other hand, spends $200 - $500

Class A would be a pairing of usually 2 fraternities, a sorority and a residential hall

Class C would be an organization like ROTC or SADD.

The homecoming queen/king- it was a combo effort. The student body got to vote but also a percentage was the interview conducted by the administration of the school.


You'll do a great job!

At Nebraska, Homecoming really tends to be a Greek event, although a 2 out of the 9 residence halls participated this year as well.

As for the money spent on floats/displays: that depends on the house. I think most of the fraternities budget around a 1000 dollars for homecoming costs. However SigEp budgets a whole lot more...rumor is close to $5000, but everyone knows it is more than every other house. However it doesn't always mean that they win the display. You can't tell from the pictures but the towers they build to be a tall as their house are just construction scaffolding draped with rolls of cloth. The basically do the same thing every year with the scaffolding. Meanwhile, you can't tell from the picture, but Beta's (my house) is done completely with tissue paper, chicken wire and wood. We did run over budget, but basically that was due to the insane amount of tissue paper we had to use. We pretty much cleared out every sheet of green tissue paper in the city of Lincoln.

My recomendations to win the float/display would be, make sure the idea works with the theme of the week, and more importantly that all the elements of your display make sense with in the scheme of the display. Obviously you don't want people walking past and wondering what one segment of your display has to do with anything. From the picture you can't really tell about my house's display, but it's obviously a combine, and along with the upcoming teams we were goign to play, we staked stolen cornstalks, and at the end of the teams their are roses to symbolize the Rose Bowl. Another little touch we added was the Years that Nebraska won the National championship coming out of the combine's auger.
The other reccomendation I have would be to use the tissue paper and chicken wire method of "pomping", it takes more time, but it looks so much better than just laying sheets of paper over a frame.

Good luck next year!