Parent's Weekend!

ChristinaL — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:57:00 GMT

We all know that college is about being independent and growing up on your own, but sometimes it is SO nice to just have Mom & Dad around to spoil you one more time!

Last weekend was Parent's Weekend here at Butler University, and I was so excited to have my mom and dad here.

Our schedule was pretty much jam-packed with all the events that Butler puts on for the weekend.

On Saturday, my mom went to study abroad info sessions in the morning, but my Dad and I were in Hinkle Fieldhouse checking out the Bulldogs Men's Basketball team at a little preseason scrimmage. Even though it wasn't a real game, a bunch of students, alumni and fans came out. We LOVE our basketball!

We also went to the football game vs. Davidson, which was pretty exciting because there was some weird play that happened for the first time in Butler history (but as I know very little about football, I can't tell you what it was... if you're interested, I bet butlersports.com knows!). Unfortunately, we lost, but hey, 4 wins in a row this year was a really big deal, so I'm still proud of them!

That night was Geneva Stunts at Clowes, which is a really long-standing tradition at Butler that raises money for the YMCA mission trip to Jamaica. Basically, all the Greek houses and residence halls get paired and put on skits about Butler according to a theme. They always incorporate lots of Butler places and lingo, so it's kind of like a campus wide inside joke and a fun way to share BU culture with our families.

The theme this year was Retro Remix, and Kappa Kappa Gamma & Sigma Nu won with a hilarious skit about a bunch of Butler students from the 1970s that end up at Class of 2011 orientation.

(Did I mention this competition requires singing and dancing?? Everyone takes popular songs and adapts them with Butler words and choreography.)

I loved Snu & Kappa's skit because they took the song "Buy You A Drank" by T-Pain and made it about getting coffee at our campus Starbucks and studying...slightly different from the original!

My parents had such a good time feeling like part of the Butler family and reliving the college days for a weekend.

My dad even made me take a picture of him on the floor of Hinkle fieldhouse so he could show his buddies...

He secretly really wants to be a Bulldog! (Don't we all? )

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Parent's Weekend!