Editorial: SAA should amp up Homecoming student turnout

The Student Alumni Association helped bring some spirit back to
the campus by renewing homecoming festivities this weekend after a
six-year intermission.

SAA’s event was the product of student-initiated campus
community building and should be commended as an honorable
effort.

Next year, however, the organization should consider extending
the scope of pre-game events beyond a parade and rally so that it
appeals to a larger number and variety of students since it seemed
like a lot of the student floats this year were produced by
fraternities and sororities.

Though SAA made a concentrated effort to invite as many students
as possible and to publicize their event ““ as evidenced by
the homecoming logos present all over campus ““ its real
challenge is to motivate students who wouldn’t be involved in
the first place.

This is a difficult task.

SAA should explore the possibility of making the event more
carnival-like, providing a field of diverse activities. This would
give students more options so they wouldn’t have to be
confined to specific areas and only a couple of events for
prolonged lengths of time; it would likely increase student
turnout.

Now that SAA has taken the difficult step ““ actually
resurrecting homecoming ““ it should start fusing ideas for
strengthening the turnout of the event.