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Get "back to where you belong" for 2000 Homecoming Oct. 20-21
Oct. 16, 2000
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University alumni are being encouraged to get "back to where you belong" at IU Bloomington's 2000 Homecoming on Friday and Saturday (Oct. 20-21).
Festivities will begin Friday with the 42nd annual homecoming parade. IU students and alumni who participated in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, will serve as grand marshals.
The parade will form on Rose Avenue next to Willkie Quad, between Third and Seventh streets, and step off at 5:30 p.m. Turning right onto East Third Street, it will advance to Indiana Avenue and end at the Sample Gates.
A pep rally will follow at 6:30 p.m. in front of the Sample Gates, at the corner of Indiana and Kirkwood avenues. IU Olympians will be joined by head football coach Cam Cameron, IU football team captains, cheerleaders, the RedSteppers, the pom squad and the Marching Hundred to prepare fans for Saturday's game, when the Hoosier football team will square off against Minnesota in Memorial Stadium at 1 p.m. Fireworks in Dunn Meadow will follow the pep rally.
During pre-game and halftime ceremonies on Saturday, the 2000 homecoming king and queen will be introduced and winners of the float and window-painting contests will be announced. The Marching Hundred alumni band and alumnae RedSteppers will perform and 50-year I-Men will be honored.
Tickets for Saturday's football game can be purchased through the IU Athletic Ticket Office. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 812-855-4006 or 1-800-447-4648.
Alumni and friends are also invited to the 13th annual homecoming luncheon on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the John Mellencamp Pavilion next to Memorial Stadium. Entertainment will be provided. Tickets for the brunch, at $10 for adults and $6 for children age 12 and under, are available by calling the IU Alumni Association at 812-855-4822 or 1-800-824-3044. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door.
Also on Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., there will be an open house for all alumni and friends of Indiana University at the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center on 17th Street, across from IU's Assembly Hall. Refreshments will be provided.
During the weekend, the classes of 1960 and 1975 will celebrate their 40th and 25th reunions with a variety of events.
Student groups will get into the homecoming spirit at the Yell Like Hell spirit competition on Thursday (Oct. 19) starting at 7:30 p.m. in Alumni Hall at the Indiana Memorial Union. Admission is free, and the general public is invited to watch.
Yell Like Hell, sponsored by the Student Alumni Association, offers students a jump-start on showing their spirit for homecoming weekend. Participating groups prepare three-minute acts such as skits, dance routines, musical numbers and lip-syncing. The act with the most homecoming spirit will be declared the winner.
Three special acts also will be joining the student groups to add to the excitement -- the popular a cappella performing groups Straight No Chaser and Ladies First, and the nationally recognized IU pom squad.
For more information on Yell Like Hell, contact the Student Alumni Association at 812-855-7221.
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)