On Monday afternoon, Vandals hit Moscow’s Main Street, covering store front windows with University of Idaho related art.
On Tuesday morning, the Vandals hit campus.
The lobby area of the Department of Student Involvement (DSI) were rearranged to have a few tables in a row with blue tablecloths, booths and a hostess table. Signs printed for the office advertise floats for 25 cents.
The decor is meant to take people back to the Blue Bucket Inn, a social club, restaurant and dance club which opened in 1924 and closed a few decades later.
Laurel Myer, administrator coordinator, said they wanted to recreate the inn because it felt like an iconic place from the universities’ past.
“It’s just something I’ve known about for a while and when we heard the theme of homecoming it seemed like a good opportunity to recreate that,” she said.
The recreation came with both Myer and Lynsie Clott acting as soda servers. The menu highlighted the different parts of DSI.
“All of the prices on our menu are relevant to the U of I or our department. The student club sandwich is $2.00 because we’ve got 200 plus student run organizations,” Myer said.
The Dean of Student’s Office, meanwhile, highlighted the many firsts of the university.
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The Dean of Students Office display focused on many of the firsts in UI history on Tuesday morning.
“So, we wanted to do the firsts around campus, so for example we wanted to do this door as the first ladies of campus, so it’s the first dean of women, the first African American grad, the first and only UI women president,” said Claire Russell, a UI student who works at the Dean of Students office.
Other doors in the Dean of Student’s showed the various logos the university has used throughout the years and when programs like Green Dot started and when the LGBTQA office was established.
The Monday Vandals had a different mission. Homecoming groups from both living groups and Greek houses painted local windows.
Christian Sanchez, from the Theophilus Tower group said they were painting the clocktower, the library and the new research building because their assigned years were 2010 to 2018.
The Tower group painted their art on Cafe Artista. The Pritchard Art Gallery’s windows were decorated with important events from the 40’s by members of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority and Theta Chi Fraternity.
One World Cafe got an 80’s makeover from Sigma Nu Fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority.
Cade Olsen, Sigma Nu freshman, said his house drew inspiration from big events from the ‘80s.
“In the ‘80s, the Lionel Hampton School of Music was built, and they added onto the Kibbie Dome, so we decided to draw the music building. Also that year we were really good at basketball so we drew a basketball,” Olsen said.
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