One of my favorite activities that I have taken part in this year as a Scholar Leader has been working together with other Scholar Leaders during Homecoming Week to decorate the two buildings, Stoddard and Elliot, for the Hall Decorating Contest. We went all-out this year trying to make it memorable and better than ever. In honor of the theme for homecoming, Reinvent Red, we decided to make decorations representing “old Miami, new Miami” like the lyrics of our alma mater. Since Elliot and Stoddard are the oldest residence halls on campus, we thought it would be appropriate for us to try and highlight Miami’s history and how we are constantly “reinventing red”.
We had a lot of fun blowing up bright red balloons which we put on the railings outside the buildings with crepe paper, making paper redhawk cutouts to put in the shutters, painting and hanging large paper banners out of the windows, hanging red streamers from the windows, putting ribbons around the pillars and, my favorite decoration, hanging a large “M” in between the two buildings that students could walk under on their way to class.
I was really proud of how great the buildings looked and of all the hard work that people put into it. We did not end up winning the hall decorating contest, but it was a great and memorable experience for all of us and a lot of fun!
-Charlotte Freeman
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