This is Homecoming week at Baylor University here in Waco, and there tends to be a lot of color and activity on campus. And while we of late don’t usually have a football victory to look forward to on Saturdays, we Wacoans can take solace in the fact that there is the sweet nectar of Dr Pepper in abundance, and that the Baylor students here can decorate up a storm.
Need proof? This year, the dorms on campus (or “residence halls” as I’m told they are properly called nowadays) had a decorating contest for Homecoming. I drove through the campus yesterday and took the time to shoot a few snaps of some of the more unusual entries.
At first, I was a bit concerned by the fervor a rollicking Homecoming can churn up in undergraduates when I drove in front of Penland Hall and saw this sight:
I thought, “Has fraternity hazing gotten this bad?” Imagine my relief, then, when my eyes took in the bigger picture and I learned this was simply a wish to charbroil (figuratively, with imaginary sauce) them boys from Lubbock:
Driving a little ways into campus, while I did not see students ingesting mushrooms that made them feel smaller or larger, or smoking hookah pipes while trading cryptic jibes with centipedes, I did happen upon this Alice in Wonderland/Mad Hatter Tea Party tableaux outside Memorial Residence Hall:
Finally, in front of Collins Hall, a dorm containing primarily freshman women, I spied a more traditional football-themed entry. I think the working creative narrative was, “What if, like, a goal post was, like, a black hole-type thingie, you know?, and, like, sucked in stuff around it, like footballs and excercise balls and fishermen’s netting and construction tape and, like, some stone-looking stairs and stuff? Sweet.”:
I wish Baylor all the luck in their game against Texas Tech Saturday. Sic ‘em Bears!
