101 THE TIMES-DELPHIC
OPINIONS & EDITORIALS
MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2010
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THINGS TO DO the who, what and where; your complete relays checklist
DURING RELAYS
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Pick up the Relays edition of The TD. Pace yourself; after all, the Relays are over a week long. Work before play. Do your homework first and you will thank yourself later. Print a schedule of all the events going on, whether it is track and field or the carnival. Don’t miss any of it. Clean your room. It will be a disaster after this week, so start it off right. Park your car on Wednesday and don’t move it. You won’t find another spot. Invite friends and family down for the weekend. They will love you forever. If you have friends over, be sure to get them a pass at the hall front desk with their license.
windows at night unless you want to 10. Close get woken up by stadium announcements.
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Watch the sun rise over Old Main with dew still on the grass and trees blossoming. Do your laundry so all your Drake gear is clean and looking fresh. Try to go to classes; teachers frown upon skipping for invalid reasons. Prepare yourself for disgusting restrooms. That doesn’t mean pee outside. Work out during the day. Walking to places and dancing is not enough.
16. Get plenty of sleep early in the week. bring sealed drinks into dorms unless 17. Only you want to be chugging on the steps. 18.
Check behind your ears when you shower. You know there’s going to be paint.
OUT AND ABOUT
19. Have a burger and waffle fries at Jethro’s. 20. Dance your heart out like no one is watching. 21. Witness the chaos on 34th Street. up to a random stranger and start a 22. Walk conversation just for the fun of it.
a football in Helmick Commons. If it’s 23. Throw not raining in Iowa, take advantage of it. your Drake ID with you at all times—you 24. Keep need it to get into the residence halls.
25. Play a game of bags. an off-campus student with a grill, grab 26. Find some hot dogs and get cooking. 27. Save some fun for the weekend. 28. Leave your phone at home. prepared for odd sleeping habits and 29. Be places. Enough said.
Spring Break by hanging with friends 30. Recreate on a blanket in the GK commons.
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DRAKE TRADITIONS
to Relays. Watch the track meet and enjoy 32. Go the show.
your school spirit: Paint yourself blue or 33. Show bring a pom pom to cheer on the Bulldogs.
Paul Revere’s in advance—the lines are 34. Order going to be crazy long. Porterhouse when they take away 35. Comfort his crown. 36. Pet and meet the crowned Beautiful Bulldog. as many alumni as you can. This is the 37. Meet only time so many are in one place.
the knowledge. Help a first-year learn 38. Spread the ropes of Relays. 39. Go to the Pancake Breakfast Friday night. on Court Avenue by dancing to 40. Celebrate HelloGoodbye. to one of the athletes. They’re 41. Talk everywhere and have great stories.
the Grand Blue Mile downtown on 42. Run Tuesday.
the Relays carnival in the south stadium 43. Visit parking lot with all your on-a-stick cuisine.
your Drake athletes. They earned 44. Support their spots—see them run.
Athletes come back each year because 45. Clap. of the energy.
RATED M FOR MATURE out with a group. There’s so many people 46. Go around, you might get lost.
at least one beer with a professor. 47. Have Buy it, and that A might just happen. the alumni. They’re past their 48. Outdrink prime.
bring drinks to class. It’s tacky and you 49. Don’t run the risk of jeopardizing your grade. 50. Go to Drubbell. Even if it is for breakfast. Pedialyte before pre-gaming to avoid 51. Drink hangovers. 52. Always tip. Those bartenders are busy. 53. How many nights in a row can you last? in mind; what happens at Relays doesn’t 54. Keep always stay at Relays. 55. End your night with McDonald’s—the breakfast menu.
TOO FUN TO MISS
56. Befriend a residence hall rent-a-cop. in for the Drake Relay’s telecast on 57.Tune Channel 16.
on the hill by the throwing arena and 58. Lay watch people lob heavy things really far. the south side of the stadium, watch 59. On people jump 7 feet high.
timesdelphic.com to see the other 41 60.Visit things to do during Relays. Calder is a sophomore public relations major and can be contacted at jennifer.calder@drake.edu. Additional ideas provided by Amy Harren and Colin Hagan.
Take a second and recognize how fortunate we are to have and experience the Drake Relays.
JEN CALDER COLUMNIST