The WSU Student Entertainment Board held a meeting last Wednesday to plan WSU's 103rd Homecoming. Though many of the favorite homecoming events are coming back, there is one big change in that there will be no homecoming king and queen this year. Student interest in homecoming royalty has gone way down in the last couple years, and students are itching for new events.
“There could be more successful events,” said Susan J. Wells, Panhellenic Vice President of Programming and Development. “Students just aren’t interested in the homecoming royalty anymore. It’s time for a new tradition.”
It seems WSU is actually one of the last schools to end the homecoming royalty tradition. Only 10 percent of current campuses have homecoming royalty, down from 96 percent in 1959.
In any case, the all popular tradition of the lipsynch competition will still be setting the week off right on Sunday at 7pm. The theme this year is "Enough quack, it's a Cougar attack!", so excpet to see some friendly duck and cougar rivalry.