February 2, 2004 == MEDIA ADVISORY
The sixth annual Cold Knight Club will be inducted at Calvin College on
Thursday, February 5, 2004, beginning at 6 p.m. The Cold Knight Club is part of
a week of festivities at Calvin for Homecoming 2004.
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 picturesque body of water on campus that lies between
President Gaylen Byker's house and the Calvin Theological Seminary.
Last year 73 students took the plunge, bringing to over 200 the number of
students who have jumped since the event began in 1999. Some 70 students or
more are expected to brave the chilly waters 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 5:50 p.m. students will come to the
Sem Pond to register (all of the students who jump get a big beach towel that
says Calvin College, Homecoming 2004, 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 616-526-6074 or Barb Hoogeboom at 616-526-6835
For pics of last year's event see
http://www.calvin.edu/homecoming/2003/coldknights/index.htm
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