Since I've yet to write a response about a news article and I've rarely read an entire article in The Lance, I figured this reading response would be the perfect time to expand my reading choices. "'A Brand New Beat' ushers in Homecoming" by Kelsey Reinhard is the headlining article for this week's Lance and an introduction to all things Homecoming related. Reinhard interviewed the Alumni Board Director Chuck Cox about the Homecoming events he and the rest of the committee have put on to make this Homecoming bigger and better than previous years. Mixing the old and the new, Cox mentioned that the marching band, being completely new to Evangel this year, was the integral theme for this year's Homecoming while old events from previous years like "EU's Got Talent" would return as featured alumni events.
Reading this article, I realized I was technically looking at it from the future because I'd already seen the football game where the Crusaders did indeed exterminate the Jackets, I'd already known the winner of EU's Got Talent was Jim Benecasa, I'd already known that Landon Johnson and Sam Burks won Homecoming Court, and I'd already read a piece at Epiphany. I guess in a way, then, I was applying my prior/futuristic knowledge to the article. I also made a connection with one particular quote Cox made about creating events to integrate current and past students at Evangel. I have felt like Homecoming was really more for alumni because they have all of these special events planned for them; the current students, or at least me if I'm the only one that feels this way, don't seem to have much interaction with the alumni because few of our events overlap. I'm not a fan of focusing everything around some past students who've donated ridiculous amounts of money to Evangel. What I mean by this is I don't understand why our entire chapel week is dedicated to people I don't know, why our cafeteria food is suddenly high-end, and why are our events focused on catering to these former students? What about the current students? Why can't we integrate some of these things so current students have a better cohesion with former students?
Reinhard, K. (2011). 'A brand new beat' ushers in homecoming. The Lance, LVII (VII).
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