The Greek Board of Directors will host a basketball tournament and lawn decorating competition next week as part of this year’s Homecoming theme “Geauxing Back in Time.”
“We are doing basketball this year instead of the usual flag football tournament because of the renovations at the UREC,” said Homecoming director Alex Cochran. “It will be fun because it is something different.”
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, students can drop off canned goods for the campus-wide CANapalooza at the parking lot behind the Kappa Kappa Gamma house, Cochran said.
For the lawn competition, sorority and fraternity chapters submitted sketches of designs to the GBD in September. To be approved, the designs for the competition could not have the same theme or decorative structures as another University chapter.
Judging for the competition begins at 7:30 a.m. next Saturday.
Every year the LSU homecoming committee meets with different student organizations to brainstorm and come up with a theme for the year, which is also used for the lawn decorating competition, Cochran said.
“We wanted to give Homecoming a vintage feel, like a throwback.” Cochran said.
After the competition, there will be the annual Homecoming parade starting at 11 a.m.