LSU’s chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority has had its pomping board wrecked, with the parts representing national champions Paul Skenes and Angel Reese reportedly taken Sunday.
Pomping is when tissue paper is rolled into tiny balls and collaged on signs or parade floats to create extravagant artwork. As part of LSU’s homecoming week, Greek life chapters created life-sized boards to the week’s theme of “in our championship era” for a campus-wide competition where they were displayed on the houses’ lawns. Members of these chapters dedicated several hours to creating these boards in the weeks leading up to LSU homecoming.
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Elementary education senior and KKG member Kaiya Phillips confirmed that parts of the sign were apprehended around 11 p.m. Sunday.
A user on Yik Yak, an anonymous chat forum based around college campuses, declared: “After [tonight] kappas board will be no more.” Another user responded with emojis of fire and a firetruck.
KKG’s sign was made in conjunction with Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. According to Phillips, members of the fraternity seized the portions of Skenes and Reese using an electric saw. They walked away with cutouts of the champs, she said.
Before the sign was cut up, the @lsuchicks Instagram page compared Skenes’ portion of the sign to South Park character Randy Marsh in a post. In another, the pomped Skenes was photoshopped side-by-side with the living gym star Olivia Dunne.
A post with pictures and videos detailed the sign’s downfall. A similar post by TikTok user @francieoliver has gone viral, raking in over 10,000 likes and 60,000 views.
Public relations and sports commerce senior and KKG president Brooke Bordelon said they had no clue AGR was planning this but was impressed by their commitment to the bit.
“Some of the girls had been texting [AGR members] like, ‘Give us back our king and queen!’ We were really unsure how to go about it so we just played into the memes and rolled with it. It was a funny way to wrap up the whole week,” Bordelon said.
Social media users had harsh words for the board, but one Yik Yak user remarked, “they’re the only board that got stolen [I guess] u can call that a win?”
AGR fraternity did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Reveille.