Paint-splattering drums, inflatable games and building food-can models of Tiger Stadium and the Memorial Tower are among the activities students will participate in to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Homecoming at the University.Campus Life, the Homecoming Committee and other campus organizations are hosting events every day this week to celebrate this year’s homecoming.The week’s events begin with the Homecoming Kickoff at the Memorial Tower at noon Monday. The organizations involved will map out all the week’s activities and Chancellor Michael Martin is scheduled to speak, said Nadia Maston, higher education administration graduate student who is assisting in organizing Homecoming this year.”There has always been a service aspect to Homecoming week, but this year’s will be much bigger,” said Erika Boyd, biology junior and service chair for the Homecoming Committee.Canapalooza will take place Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons on the Parade Ground. Student organizations will use canned goods they collected to construct various University landmarks like the Memorial Tower and Tiger Stadium, said Mallory Trochesset, Campus Life adviser for the Service committee.A week-long food drive has also been organized for students to donate canned food in receptacles placed in highly trafficked areas around campus. The food collected from Canapalooza and the week-long drive will be donated to Greater Baton Rogue food bank, Trochesset said.The Residential Hall Association will host Splatter Beat on Tuesday afternoon to coincide with Canapalooza on the Parade Ground. Splatter Beat is a musical activity where students can drum on garbage cans covered in paint, resulting in the students getting splattered with paint as they drum, said Jacob Brumfield, Campus LIfe adviser for the Homecoming Committee.Live music and inflatable games will accompany Canapalooza on Wednesday, Brumfield said.Organizers planned a pep rally for Thursday at 7 p.m. on the Parade Ground. LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri is scheduled to speak at the rally, accompanied by the Tiger Pep Band, Brumfield said.”The events going on next week are just going to be fun,” Brumfield said. “What do the students want to do? They want to get covered in purple and gold paint. They want to jump on inflatables, and they want to have a pep rally. These are all student-driven ideas.”These events are also joined by changes to some traditional aspects of Homecoming. This year the Homecoming Court will include students from sophomore and freshman classifications. Homecoming Court is typically composed of only junior and seniors, Brumfield said.Students will be able to vote on the Homecoming King and Queen from the seniors involved on the court via their PAWS accounts starting Tuesday, Trochesset said.The “Bayou Blackout” step show will begin the weekend activities Friday at 9 p.m. at the Field House.The Homecoming Parade scheduled for noon on Saturday will conclude the week’s events. Brumfield said the committee is adding little hints of this year’s 100-year anniversary of Homecoming in logos and in the week’s programs because the University itself has a much larger anniversary next year with the sesquicentennial.The Homecoming events are paid for by $26,160 in student fees derived from the Campus Life Budget. The Homecoming Committee also received $9,395 from Student Government’s Programming, Support and Initiatives Fund along with smaller sponsorships from other organizations.—-Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]