Homecoming Pep Rally

So last Thursday was the Homecoming Pep Rally. It’s sort of taken me awhile to write about it, I know! This week, as I walked around, I noticed no windows were painted and then I remembered I had wanted to share my experiences with you all.

See, one of the things that the Homecoming Committee announced at the pep rally was the winners of the window painting contest. Various different organizations paint the windows of Bruff, including student organizations, fraternities and sororities, and multicultural groups. Various dorms also compete amongst themselves, on the windows of their own buildings. This year the winner was the India Association of Tulane University, and I can tell you from walking around campus last week that pretty much everyone knew it would happen. IATU entered the contest late, but you’ll see from my pictures why they still won. This, if you ask me, is art (done by Aden Malik of IATU).

The pep rally also featured the marching band and the color guard, both of whom I had never seen perform before. It was very obvious the effort they went through to guarantee a good show.

And finally, they had fireworks. When my friend called me to go to the pep rally, I thought no one would be there and it would be pretty dull. Coming from a huge state school last fall, the University of Texas at Austin and a proud public school in the small town of Friendswood, Texas, before that, I was used to school spirit being at an alltime high ALL the time. In Friendswood we had a football team that never won but we still went to their games to support them, and the stands were always packed. Here at a small private school, school spirit is a little different. You don’t see as many people at games, but the ones you do see are diehard fans and can tell you exactly what’s going on. This pep rally, however, was a reminder of how school spirit, though different from that of a public high school and big state school, is still there, tried and true. The place was packed and the firework show at the end of the night was something I’d never seen at any pep rally.

The whole thing made me proud of this school and proud to be a Tulanian!