From: Phil deHaan (dehp@calvin.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 12:15:17 EST
February 5, 2003 == MEDIA ADVISORY
The fifth annual Cold Knight Club will be inducted at Calvin College on
Thursday, February 6, 2003, beginning at 6 p.m. The Cold Knight Club is part
of a week of festivities at Calvin for Homecoming 2003.
And what exactly is the Cold Knight Club? Simply put: a group of students
willing to put on a bathing suit in February and submerge themselves in
Calvin's "Sem Pond," a murky and muddy body of water on campus that lies
between President Gaylen Byker's house and the Calvin Theological Seminary.
Last year 50-60 students took the plunge. A similar number is expected this
year, despite recent temperatures!
During the day, Calvin professor Randy Buursma (appropriately pronounced BRRR
SMA) will dig a hole in the ice. At about 5:45 p.m. students will come to the
Sem Pond to register (the first 50 students get a big beach towel that says
Calvin College, Homecoming 2003, Cold Knight Club).
And then they start jumping, one by one, into the frigid waters.
The club began in 1999 as a way to get current Calvin students more involved
in Homecoming. The idea originated with Buursma.
Contact Buursma at 616-957-6074 or Barb Hoogeboom at 957-6835
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