Tiger spirit will radiate throughout the Quad today during the annual Fall Fest celebration.
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., about 64 booths will invade the Quad. Various University departments and student organizations will showcase information and provide students an opportunity to socialize.
A new social media element has also been added this year.
LSU SCVNGR is a mobile scavenger hunt students can play between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. while attending Fall Fest. Students can play from an app available for smartphones or through standard text messaging.
Trace Purvis, University media coordinator, said the Fall Fest game will include 15 coordinates mapped throughout the Quad, Middleton Library and Hill Memorial Library areas. Each coordinate is associated with a task or challenge.
“Challenges include trivia questions, prompts to take pictures or audio/visuals or open-ended ‘tell-us-what-you-think’ type questions,” Purvis said. “Based on responses, you’re given points. It’ll shut down at 1 p.m. and we’ll see who has the most points.”
Students who complete the challenges can win prizes like an LSU football signed by Les Miles, tickets to Tigerama and an opportunity to park in the chancellor’s lot for a week.
Emaan Abdelbaki, director of marketing with the Office of Communications and University Relations, said LSU SCVNGR is a good way to promote the University to prospective and current students during Fall Fest and beyond.
“Students taking a tour of LSU learn information, but after that tour is done they have the ability to go on the SCVNGR tour and learn new things about the University,” Abdelbaki said. “They’re able to check in and get points and maybe get a prize for completing it.”
Nancy Little, marketing strategist with University Relations and Fall Fest chair, said additional student groups were invited to perform in the stage show this year to increase variety.
This year’s event will host the National Pan-Hellenic Council’s Love Purple Live Gold Yard Show and performances by the Golden Band from Tigerland, LSU Cheerleaders, Golden Girls, Tiger Girls and more.
Fall Fest will also offer free food, including hamburgers, sausage po-boys, pizza, chips, soft drinks, bottled water and ice cream.
In addition to the 12,000 hamburgers and hotdogs available, the food court will also have 1,000 veggie burgers to give away at the request of students, Little said.
Little said Fall Fest, which has been a tradition at the University since 1994, is a great opportunity to showcase the spirit of the University.
“People come to the Quad to meet and mingle,” she said. “Admissions and recruiting invite prospective students to Fall Fest as a recruitment tool. People can see the campus and department offerings we have. It’s an important tradition on campus, and that’s the reason it returns every year.”
 
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