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Wednesday, October 10, 2001
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Volume 5 No. 4
Passport to Homecoming 2001
Mike Shade
Pilot sports editor
Fresh off a night of powder puffing, toi
let papering and shaving creaming, it is
amazing anyone got out of bed for
Saturday’s events. Yet, many poor sleep-
deprived souls dragged their lifeless bodies
out of bed Saturday morning for the tradi
tional dorm decorating contest.
SGA executive treasurer and H.A.P.Y.
resident Jennie Jones said their dorm worked
Friday night until almost 3 a.m. Saturday
morning, and then turned around and woke
up at 8 a.m. to finish off the job and impress
the judges. The H.A.P.Y. squad did just that,
winning first prize in the contest.
Using the theme of “Passport to Hapy
Island,” the dorm used tropical scenes,
played tropical music, threw in two six-foot
palm trees and served non-alcoholic pina
coladas. The hall will receive $100 award for
hall improvements.
“We were ecstatic to win,” Jones said
after the judging. “We are glad that we final
ly took the Honors house off their pedestal,
and put H.A.P.Y. on the map.”
The Honors house finished in third
place, while Myers-Spangler finished sec
ond.
Next on the agenda was the traditional
Homecoming Day Parade. Dozens of people
watched the six-minute barrage of floats,
cars and tractors.
The coveted award of best float was
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Photo by Scott Holstein
Senior Alicia McMahan is crowned by last year’s homecoming queen Hannah
Woody during halftime at Saturday’s game.
Roll on:
A history of
rolling campus
LaDonna Beeker
Pilot staff
With ribbons of toilet paper dan
gling in the trees as a reminder of last
weekend’s activities, many students are
asking how rolling the quad became a
tradition.
This activity began in the 1950s as a
prank and gradually became “legalized”
in the mid-1980s as a tradition for the
night before the Homecoming football
game, according to Tony Eastman, his
tory professor.
In the 1950s, rolling the quad was
“highly illegal and resulted in expulsion
from college if caught,” said Eastman.
According to him, this illegal activity
stopped during the 1960s but returned in
1971 as a tradition, when the first four-
year class graduated, he added.
“The students stripped every [toilet
paper] bar on campus of toilet paper.
This is when we got the on-wall dis
pensers for each bathroom,” explained
Eastman. “After they stole every roll of
toilet paper off of campus, they retreat
ed to the Ingles in Shelby, and, with
their own money, bought out every case
of toilet paper.”
When president Christopher White
arrived at Gardner-Webb sixteen years
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GWU graduates come ‘home’ to Boiling Springs for weekend
Jennifer Menster
Special to the Pilot
If you noticed a lot of older
people walking around campus
this past weekend wearing
Gardner-Webb T-shirts and
sweatshirts, don’t be alarmed.
There is nothing in the Caf’s
water.
Friday marked the begin
ning of Homecoming and the
return of many GWU alumni.
“The whole purpose of
homecoming weekend is to have
alumni come home to Gardner-
Webb,” said Laurie Varley,
director of alumni and parent
relations and ’93 Gardner-Webb
graduate.
And come home they did.
Although an official number is
not counted, assistant director of
alumni and parent relations
Francine Schau said prior to the
weekend at least several hundred
graduates were expected to
attend Saturday night’s football
game.
That number does not count
the approximately 100 that
planned to attend the alumni
banquet Saturday evening, or the
several dozen who teed off at the
‘Tve been
coming back
since
graduation ”
Randy Swartz
‘87 graduate
alumni golf tournament Friday
morning.
All the proceeds from the
weekend’s activities covered the
expenses.
Nearly 15,000 announce
ments were mailed out to past
Gardner-Webb graduates con
cerning last weekend’s festivi
ties, which included a golf tour
nament, campus tours, tailgating
and an alumni banquet. The
brochure was in the form of a
passport and listed local restau
rants and hotels.
But who really needs hotels
when they can camp? Loading
up the campers and tents has
become a homecoming tradition
for some alumni for the past sev
eral years.“We rented a camper
and set it up right outside the sta
dium,” said alumnus Randy
Swartz, of Gastonia.
Swartz and his roommate
were the first to begin xtimping
and have done so for the past
three years. However, this year
the ’87 graduate said he wasn’t
able to camp because time snuck
up on him, and because of the
NASCAR race in Charlotte,
campers weren’t easy to come
by.
Swartz still took part in the
weekend fun, however.
“I’ve been coming back
since graduation,” said Swartz.
“My kids enjoy coming, and I
get to see my roommate and past
professors.”