In the spirit of homecoming, on Nov. 1 students gathered in the Mini-Dome to watch one of ETSU’s longest-standing traditions: Skit Night.
A major difference in this year’s homecoming schedule was that Skit Night fell on a Friday. According to SGA Secretary Roxy Reed, this change was to allow the pep rally to kick-off homecoming week.
“Skit Night is a really good way to bring people together, but also it gives all the groups a way to show off their organization,” Reed said. “It is super unique; they all can choose something different.
The night started off with an introduction to the six judges of the event, who ranged from alumni to professors to graduate assistants. These judges included Joy Fulkerson, Amy Johnson, Angela Flemmer, Heath Ricker, Lindsey Bible and Jordan Barkley. Each skit is judged on their interpretation of ETSU’s homecoming theme of “X Marks The Spot” along with other rules and regulations.
“You have to attend a pre-rehearsal and get all your items and props pre-approved, go to the recording before, edit your own music and send it to us and we put it all together,” Reed said. “It can be no curse words or inappropriate slang music. It is kind of basic rules, just making sure it is appropriate and clean. We want to represent the university well in everything we do.”
Before the winners of Skit Night were announced, SGA members tossed free T-shirts into the crowd and hosted a raffle. Upon entry to the Mini-Dome, students were given a blue ticket as entry into the raffle. Some of the prizes included an ETSU hat, football, an “ETSU Tough” decorative piece and a beanie.
In third place was Alpha Xi Delta and Sigma Phi Epsilon. Second place was given to Alpha Delta Pi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Kappa Delta and Beta Upsilon Chi won first place.
Reed praised the amount of work these groups put into these performances for homecoming week, saying that it was no easy task.
“It really gives organizations a way to showcase what they have done,” Reed said. “They put a lot of work into it. It is really rewarding to see all their hard work put into it and production.”
Another change implemented is that there are two categories for two overall winners of homecoming.
“This year for homecoming we [did] something kind of new,” Reed said. “The university is trying to transfer and transition to doing homecoming with two separate categories – an independent category which is organizations and then a Greek life category, which is of course fraternities and sororities,” said Reed. “We have anything from all the fraternities and sororities, and then our independent groups we have like POLO and Black Affairs that participate. It really just varies. We have got both Greek Life and the organizations.”
