{"id":2216,"date":"2005-09-24T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T09:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2005\/09\/24\/floats-that-dont-float\/"},"modified":"2005-09-24T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T09:14:56","slug":"floats-that-dont-float","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2005\/09\/24\/floats-that-dont-float\/","title":{"rendered":"Floats that don&#8217;t float"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/Fiji2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><i>Jim Amidon<\/i> \u2014 Many colleges and universities have Homecoming parades complete with bands and floats. I gather that many years ago that was the case here at Wabash. Today, though, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?photo_album_id=172\">freshman floats<\/a> don&#8217;t float. In fact, we call them &quot;decorations.&quot; But simply because they don&#8217;t roll down the street behind a John Deere doesn&#8217;t mean our kids don&#8217;t work just as hard as anyone else. Just take a look at the tired eyes of the freshmen from eight fraternities and and the independents who built Homecoming decorations \u2014 I&#8217;m sure some pulled the first of what will become many Wabash all-nighters.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Rick Warner, Patrick Myers, and Sherry Ross, who rolled out of bed early on a damp Saturday morning to walk the entire length of campus to serve the Sphinx Club as judges for this year&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Delts put on a boxing match for their &quot;KO the Quakers&quot; theme; the independents, who built decorations over 20 feet tall at Crawford Hall, attempted to bribe the judges with juice and fruit; and the Phi Psi&#8217;s decorations stretched 60-70 feet across the lawn. Interestingly, the <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/Nails.jpg\" \/>Fiji decorations feature a burning pot, complete with dry, old wood around the base \u2014guess that will make it easier to set fire to it (anybody else remember the huge blaze there a few years ago?).<\/p>\n<p>But the moment of the morning came after I had taken pictures on the west end of campus and was headed south to Lambda Chi. There I saw the Delt queen having his, er, her nails painted. I was so confused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Amidon \u2014 Many colleges and universities have Homecoming parades complete with bands and floats. I gather that many years ago that was the case here at Wabash. Today, though, the freshman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}