2006-2007 Yearbook

OVERSEA EAUHlnG New royalty gets crowned at HUG's campus When preparing to travel overseas, most people expected to visit exotic locals, see art they had only read abom in a book, eat imeresring food and build relationships with students who were experiencing the overseas program with them. Not many were thinking about their social clubs. So when several students were beauxed overseas, it came to them as quite a surprise. During the spring Harding University in Greece program, sophomore Adam Hooten and junior Andrew Fraser were both beauxed by social clubs Zeta Rho and Pi Theta Phi, respectively. Hooten said while he was studying for his final exam, Zeta Rho members junior Jenny Johnson and senior Carrie Cantrell surprised him by covering him with some of their Zeta Rho paraphernalia and singing the club song. "We didn't have a jersey to beaux him with, but 1 did have my Zeta Rho anarack," Johnson said. "It didn't fit over his body, so we just threw it around Adam's head. It was a preuy funny sight." Johnson said even though there were only two dub members to beaux Hoote n, it was still a special experience. "Adam is an amazing guy, and we got really close in Greece," Johnson said. "I felt so honored being one of two girls who got to beaux him." Hooten said he was excited to be beauxed for the club si nce his brother, Alan, had been beauxed by Zeta Rho while overseas in Greece in 2003. Later that day, junior Andrew Fraser said he was finally relaxing after a stressful Greek exam. "[The exam] had fried my brain; memorizing different cases, tenses, clauses and vocabulary items for the test," Fraser said. "My mind was gone." So when several screaming members of Pi Theta Phi came running toward him, Fraser said he was really .confused and started running from them, thinking they were going to attack him while he was trying to relax. "I didn't understand what was happening until a pause in the middle of the chaos when a girl shouted, 'Stop, we're trying to beaux you,'" Fraser said. Once he realized what was going on, Fraser said he felt amazing. "I couldn't stop smiling as they placed an old function shirt over my head," Fraser said. "My body, completely in shock, began to shake as 1 stood there while they circled up around me, held hands and began to sing their beautiful club song. Man, it was like a bunch of angels singing around me, and 1 know that sounds cheesy, but it's so true." Not only did these honored students come back home to family and friends, but they also came back to a new club family ready to welcome them into their lives and ready to begin building relationships with them. "I was excited about being beauxed and kind of nervous because there were a lot of new girls in rhe dub 1didn't know," Hooten said. "But since 1 have been back, I have been able to get to know more of rhe club and really enjoy all the privileges of being a beaux." -Katie Ulliman Opening his campus mailbox Oct. 6 in the student center, junior Nick May, an Iota Chi beau, finds gifts from some of the members. Queens and beaux occa– sionally received gifts and cards of appre– ciation from the members of the club. -Chelsea Roberson queens/beaux 2ss.

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