FOR THE PAST several weeks, they seem to have been inundating almost every building on campus: event announcements, banners and posters elaborating on details.

We see these flyers, yet we don’t seem to feel a great amount of excitement, like it’s not that big of a deal. Why? Because of a common feeling felt through varied groups of the student population: Homecoming isn’t really for us, it’s staged more for the alumni.

Students seem to share the widespread opinion that Homecoming is put together to please the alumni. In many ways it appears to be nothing short of an act of propaganda: a show of our university sponsors and donations.

For alumni it’s a chance to reunite and catch up on years of lost time. As students we hold no value to these sentiments – we see our classmates every day.

A number of students feel that Homecoming is a production put on for the alumni because we don’t have a football team and, therefore, no common American Homecoming game. Alumni, on the other hand, have an alternate motive – the chance to reunite.

A general feeling of ” Been there, done that,” has also been circulating among students.

The difference between high school and college is that high school was more about the impressions we made on friends and social groups. These fixations still hold importance in college, but not as much as other newfound priorities.

Students say they hold higher expectations for themselves and others; in college popularity contests lose priority since finals and thesis papers are around the corner. We came here to better our education and further our future, not repeat social clichCB)s we were glad to leave behind.

The word homecoming in itself means coming home… we’re not going anywhere.