[149] 'Bright Lights, Blue City': Alumni, Students Await MTSU Homecoming Oct. 23

Release date: Oct. 18, 2010

News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
Alumni Relations contact: Rhonda King, 615-898-2922 or rking@mtsu.edu
SGA contact: Rhonda King, 615-898-2922 or rking@mtsu.edu

‘Bright Lights, Blue City’: Alumni, Students
Await MTSU Homecoming Oct. 23


(MURFREESBORO) — Something for everyone—from Baby Raiders to Golden Raiders—will be on tap for MTSU’s 2010 Homecoming, culminating with the Saturday, Oct. 23, football game against Louisiana-Monroe in Floyd Stadium.
Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. for the Sun Belt Conference game.
Of special interest earlier in the day will be the 25th anniversary celebration for the Center for Popular Music from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the John Bragg Mass Communication Building.
Student homecoming activities will include:
• the Fight Song competition for student organizations on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. in Murphy Center;
• T-shirt Swap Days Oct. 20-22;
• “Paint the Halls Blue” activities in residence halls and office buildings;
• Horseshoe competition, Oct. 21 at 5 p.m. at the Campus Recreation Center;
• the National Pan-Hellenic Council Step Show, which will be held in Murphy Center on Friday, Oct. 22, starting at 7 p.m.;
• the Homecoming Parade, featuring Grand Marshal Lane Davies, an alumnus of the Class of 1972, starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday. The parade begins on Maney Avenue, follows East Main Street to Middle Tennessee Boulevard and ends at Greenland Drive; and
• the crowning of the Homecoming Queen and King, elected during the Oct. 5-7 Student Government Association voting.
Children and grandchildren of alumni, employees, students and friends of the university are invited to participate in the parade by walking, being pulled in a stroller or wagon or riding a tricycle in the Baby Raider Ride Contest. Baby Raiders must be accompanied by an adult and will enter the parade at the Alumni House.
Three divisions—alumni and friends, restaurants and students—will compete in the Chili Cook-Off on Friday, Oct. 22, starting at 5 p.m. in the Murphy Center Forest. A corn hole competition will be held at the same time and location.
Alumni activities include:
• the Golden Raider Reunion and Induction Ceremony on Friday, starting at 2 p.m., where the Class of 1960 will be saluted;
• the annual Mixer on Middle Parade-Watching Party Saturday starting at 10 a.m. and featuring commentary from the “Voice of the Blue Raiders,” Chip Walters, and fellow alumna Nancy Van Camp of WSMV-Channel 4;
• a reunion of former Sidelines staff members, set for Saturday starting at 12:30 p.m. in the Brass Mass Communication Building;
• the Alumni Reunion Tailgate Tent Oct. 23 starting at noon, along with the 1963-98 Political Science Alumni Tailgate, the Zeta Tau Alpha Alumnae/Collegiate Tailgate and a multitude of other gatherings in Walnut Grove and the area around Murphy Center after the parade;
• Concrete Industry Management tailgating at the Voorhies Engineering Technology Building;
• a reunion of the 1959 and 1961 Tangerine Bowl football teams and Varsity Club reception on Oct. 23; and
• a gathering of former Homecoming Queens, Kings and cheerleaders during ceremonies to crown this year’s honorees.
The annual Al Wilkerson Scholarship Dance will conclude homecoming events Saturday night starting at 8 at the DoubleTree Hotel.
Alumni and friends can visit www.mtalumni.com or call 800-533-6878 for more information.
The Student Government Association sponsors MTSU Homecoming events for students. For more information, contact Homecoming Director Donald Abels at sgahome@mtsu.edu, call 615-898-2537 or visit mtsu.edu/sga online.

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Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. This fall, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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