Homecoming's roots run deep. While events still include the rival college football game and stellar music, Oles have not yet reinstituted events like the parade that once looped through campus as the football game halftime show or the crowing of homecoming queen. The most congenial female competed.

Important traditions never die, like the dedication of new buildings and the inauguration of college presidents. The campus ghost stories, bonfires, international bazaar, class reunions, performances, chapel services and the inclusion of family and friends solidify the campus as one bonded by an appropriately peculiar past.

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