Megan Gospe | Argonaut
Members of Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Kappa Lambda perform their skit featuring Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy during the Homecoming Jingles Wednesday night.
This year”s homecoming theme started with a giant white board and a Homecoming Committee brainstorming session.
“We just throw out ideas,” said Emily Rasch, Homecoming Committee chair. “All ideas are welcome. We don”t erase anything from the board, just throw everything out there.”
The committee would eventually decide on this year”s homecoming theme – A Hero”s Homecoming.
Rasch said the theme fits perfectly within the criteria they were looking for.
“We have to find a fun theme that works with the university and the local community,” Rasch said. “One that can be incorporated into our events and within the competing teams, and is appropriate.”
Ayla Neumeyer, Homecoming Kickoff chair, said this year”s theme incorporates everybody and follows a tradition of positive themes at the University of Idaho.
“We all have a different definition of what a hero is,” Neumeyer said. “”¦ It”s something we can all identify with because we all have heroes in our lives, and heroes that have impacted us during our involvement at U of I.”
Neumeyer said everyone should get out and enjoy the festivities at some point during Homecoming Week.
“This theme is really all-encompassing in that way “¦ We can all kind of find people that we think of who are our heroes, but also involved in the Vandal community,” Neumeyer said.
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