Groups make floats to receive place of honor

By Alison Angel 

angela@thejohnsonain.com

Colorful paper and visions of school spirit.

Homecoming this year marks a change at Winthrop as groups around campus compete to make floats.

The homecoming committee and facilities management teamed up and decided to make floats for this year’s homecoming.

The winning float will receive a place of honor on the Campus outside of the new DiGiorgio Center.

Mike Rapay, assistant director of campus programming, is in charge of helping to coordinate the event and competition with the floats. 

Rapay said in the past Winthrop has allowed student groups to make floats for events but this year is different.

“There have been floats in the past, but not like this,” Rapay said. “We have told each group to create something that will allow the Winthrop community to know who made it immediately.”

The student homecoming committee came up with this theme for the competing groups.

“We wanted to make it a little different than the banners which are more about our basketball team beating the other team,” Rapay said.

Each float will be judged based on artistic appeal, as well as use of a fence piece provided by the committee and spirit of the organization who built the float. 

If you are interested in having your club or organization participate and build a float for this year’s homecoming, visit the homecoming website to register. 

The deadline to register is November 4.

Homecoming week starts Nov. 9 and ends Nov. 13.