Student Activities Council officials announced this year’s theme, geared around versatile storytelling.
The theme, “Once Upon a Star,” was announced in a Homecoming kickoff event Sept. 4. It will allow students the opportunity to tell a story through fairy tales and fantasy, officials said. Homecoming week will be Oct. 26 to Nov. 3.
The committee gets together during the summer to brainstorm ideas for a theme. The committee decided on “Once Upon a Star” to let organizations be creative, said Madelynn Buckmann, dance senior and president of SAC.
“There’s so many stories that can be told with it, because you can go with fairy tale, with a far off world, you can go with a mystery,” Buckmann said. “There’s so many things that can be done with it, and that was kind of the goal. Not everyone is doing the same storyline, so hopefully more stories will appear.”
Joshua Lewis, vocal education senior and Homecoming commissioner, said the committee picked a theme that reflects the campus community.
“We decided on ‘Once Upon a Star’ just because it creates that journey that each of us go through, when you arrive on campus and you see everything that’s bright, everything that’s new,” Lewis said. “It’s all about that. ‘Once upon a time, I was at OCU, and then I became a star.’”
Homecoming events include lip sync, banner, float, window, and OCU Cares, a volunteer service day.
Lewis said SAC created a new partnership this year with the OK Kids Korral for Homecoming, which provides resources and lodging for misplaced Oklahoma children with cancer. Previously, SAC had a partnership with the Oklahoma Boys and Girls Club. Students put on a Halloween festival for attendees of the Boys and Girls Club.
“We’ll be sending out students to help with cleaning the [OK Kids Korral] facility and to help with the kids,” Lewis said. “We will continue as a university to partner with them, and we’re gonna do a big dance marathon in the spring.”
A group of the children will attend the Homecoming events, and they will help judge events like lip sync, Lewis said.
“We’re so excited to bring them into Homecoming week. I mean, they’re gonna be at lip sync, they’re going to be doing everything, so we’re just glad that they’ll be here and they’ll be able to experience with us,” he said.
Katelyn Jassoy, vocal performance/music theater senior, said she wants to see more creative themes in the future, but is looking forward to see what organizations put together for the events.
“I think that it’s unoriginal, because it’s like a bad prom theme, but exciting because I love Disney,” Jassoy said.
Homecoming events begin in late October.
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