I love Homecoming Week. Every Homecoming has an over­all theme and there are mul­ti­ple events and activ­i­ties to par­take in from the lip sync show to the Homecoming dance on Saturday night. This year’s theme was car­toons, in case you missed the memo last week.

I like Homecoming Week so much because it is a time for cam­pus to come together and show its Bulldog pride. We chose to go to Ferris, didn’t we? Why shouldn’t we show our school spirit, espe­cially dur­ing the most impor­tant week of Bulldog pride celebrations?

This was my sec­ond year attend­ing Ferris Homecoming and again, I loved it. My prob­lem is, where was every­one last week when all of the fes­tiv­i­ties were going on? Sure, a lot of stu­dents were involved with plan­ning and par­tic­i­pat­ing in the activ­i­ties, but let’s be hon­est here. How many of those stu­dents were part of Greek life on campus?

Greek par­tic­i­pants blew every other stu­dent group out of the water in terms of par­tic­i­pa­tion. Maybe this is because there are just so many Greek reg­is­tered stu­dent orga­ni­za­tions on cam­pus, but even with the 14 groups or so what about the rest of the RSOs? We have over 200 RSOs on cam­pus and I highly doubt every­one participated.

Homecoming is for every­one and I think a lot of stu­dents and stu­dent orga­ni­za­tions for­get that. We have over 10,000 stu­dents on cam­pus and it just seemed like the same stu­dents were attend­ing the Homecoming events.

I applaud those who did par­tic­i­pate and to those who wore their red and gold apparel. I think it’s even cooler when stu­dents actu­ally dress up for the daily themes, like the stu­dent who wore his red one­sie to and from class. I just wish more stu­dents would actu­ally get involved.

Students don’t real­ize what oppor­tu­ni­ties they have until they miss out on them. We won’t get into foot­ball games for free after we grad­u­ate, wear our paja­mas to work or get stu­dent free­bies like we do here.

We are going to be stu­dents only once, or so we hope, and we need to make the most of our time on cam­pus, espe­cially out­side of class.

If you did not par­tic­i­pate in Homecoming this year, you really should try to next year. I’m not say­ing run for Homecoming court, but at least wear school col­ors and go to an event or two.

Homecoming is for every­one, so take advan­tage of it while you still have the chance.

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