Wright State students decorate and drive golf carts in celebration of homecoming

 

The Office of Student Activities hosted the second annual Homecoming Golf Cart Parade on Thursday. Twenty golf carts, rented by Student Activities, were loaned to student groups and organizations. The task of each group was to decorate the carts like they would a parade float, according to this year’s homecoming theme, "Home of Champions."

Each group was given time from 12-5 p.m. on Oct 4, to decorate their floats. They were judged by members of Student Affairs from 5-6 p.m., then they took off and toured the campus, beginning at the Quad and ending up at the bonfire by the mud volleyball court.

Dylan Collison coordinated and marketed the parade. He is a freshman working for Student Activities and was excited to be given the opportunity to host the parade.

"A bunch of schools around the country have parades for homecoming, so this is our way of incorporating parades and floats without breaking the bank of any student organizations,” Collison said.

WWSU radio entered a cart with a WALL-E theme. They walled in the cab with brown-painted cardboard, glued eyes to the roof and attached tinfoil hands to the front.

Sigma Phi Delta made their cart look like a mobile red brick castle. "The theme this year was home of the champions and what better home for a champion than a castle," said Brendan Matteoli, member of Sigma Phi Delta.

The third floor of Hickory Hall entered a cart. Their cart was draped with cobwebs. A pair of googly eyes stared back from the bumper. Red and black balloons were tied to the roof supports. "It's spooky season," said Andrew Mroczka, a freshman on the floor, "so we tried to make our cart look spooky."

First place went to the Table Top Club for their dragon design.

Second place went to Third Floor Hickory Hall.

Third place went to the Fencing Club.

"I just wanted everyone to have fun," Collison said. "I think they did, but looking forward to next year, I want to try to increase the number of carts in the parade and try to promote more crowd interaction."

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