FB: Southern Athletic Association

[awadelewis]

You also made me curious.  Is there a story behind the use of Alumni Weekend rather than Homecoming?

Utterly no clue.  There are about 40 events that take place during a 2.5 day period that starts today but I don't suppose that's all that unusual for colleges these days.  There's nothing I could find online that explains why.

Our alumni office at Sewanee tried going the "Alumni Weekend" route a few years ago to justify segregating alumni-focused activities and student-focused activities around Homecoming.  Mixing alumni, students, and alcohol was causing problems in the insular social environment on the Mountain.   We are back to calling it Homecoming but the alumni office has events scheduled almost to the minute with clear separation of alumni vs. student events.  I live near Sewanee so rarely do the formal stuff but this year is my 40th so shall be interesting to go through it all.

[Ron Boerger]

This year's Alumni Weekend at Trinity happens during the school's fall break, so I guess there's no worries about excessive student involvement but seriously with the exception of the athletic events the only people invited are (in most cases paid) alumni attendees.

45th here, and they made the mistake of putting me on the corresponding committee.  Me who knew very few people outside of the CS department because I was (and am) massively introverted in person and a townie living at home, totally uninvolved in social events, and who started working a professional job part-time at the end of my third semester that turned into full-time my senior year.

Time to shower and go talk with a lot of people I've never met in person.  Sounds like fun.