Calvin Students Ready for "Silly Games"

September 8, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Calvin College students will take part in two unusual competitions on
Saturday, September 9.

First, at 10 am that day, hordes of students from the college's residence
halls will take to a playing field located north of the Kalsbeek-Huizenga dorm
to continue a 38-year-old pseudo-athletic fall tradition at the college called
Chaos Day, in which winning takes a back seat to having fun.

And at 1 pm tomorrow, on a field adjacent to Calvin's Knollcrest East
apartments, residents of those apartments will stage a similarly fun
competition called the Mud Bowl, now in its 28th year.

John Witte, Calvin dean of residence life, says that Chaos Day pits teams from
the residence halls in "seven silly, inane kind of events."

Previous years have involved various combinations of students and props
including soccer balls, wheel barrows and mattresses, the latter used for a
mattress relay where eight people carry a mattress with one person on it.

Mud Bowl, says Witte, is a little less intense and little more mud-oriented.
While Mud Bowl involves yet more silly games, its premiere event is a
tug-of-war over a large mud pit.

Underlying both traditions is a spirit of fellowship says Witte.

"It's an opportunity for each residence hall to jell, to have the shared
experience, something fun. Its builds a sense of community and camaraderie. The
competition of it is mostly fun and in jest. The tradition is rich, the
outcome is meaningless."

For the full story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/silly-games.htm
Contact John Witte at 616-540-9634 (mobile)

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Received on Fri Sep 8 12:24:11 2006