Hofstra's Homecoming

Hofstra's Homecoming was yesterday. The theme was "Myths and Legends." Now Homecoming is traditionally a fraternity-sorority event, and as such, I've never attended. But, this year our school decided to make this more "green." Intrigued, my campus clubs Students for a Greener Hofstra, Progressive Students Union and The Groove decided to get involved. Making the homecoming more green basically meant that they encouraged us to use recycled materials and that the first day of building we were told not to use electric tools. Whoop-de-doo. We knew we could do better. We used this opportunity to build a float that taught the real message of going green and illustrated why it is so important that we do this right. We build a float out of all recycled materials that we pulled from the trash, in our rooms, the student center, and dumps. Going with the theme, our float was titled "Myth" Global Warming. Whereas some groups spent upwards of $2000 on their floats (which wind right up in the trash), we spent $23 an organization on paint and twine. Bringing together education, activism and art, we won for the award for the Greenest Float. We built an educational art installation and spend some quality time with each other, learning about skills and talents that we didn't know we all had and we exposed greek-life to some new ideas and cost-saving measures for next year's homecoming. Just check out this picture.