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Homecoming features week of events

"D-list celebrity" and comedian Kathy Griffin will headline homecoming events with a 7:30 p.m. performance Oct. 3 at the Lied Center. Griffin's appearance is part of a week of events starting Sept. 30 featuring murals, singing, a hotdog eating contest, parade and culminating with the KU-Texas A&M football game Oct. 7. This year's homecoming theme is "Once a Jayhawk, Always a Jayhawk."

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The festivities kick off at 9 a.m. Sept. 30 with a "Spirit Sprint" at the Kansas Union. Entry is $15 for students and $20 for nonstudents. "Jayhawk Idol" and Spirit Sing auditions will also be held at the Kansas Union that day.

Homecoming murals are due Oct. 2, and a medallion hunt will kick off the same day. At noon, the hotdog eating contest and Jayhawk Idol finals will be held at Wescoe Beach. A basketball tournament will be held in the KU Student Recreation Center throughout the day.

Oct. 3 will start off with "KU Can-struction" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wescoe Beach. Another round of Jayhawk Idol finals will be held in the same location at noon. Griffin, star of TV show "My Life on the D-List" will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center. Tickets are on sale at the SUA Box Office on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.

On Oct. 4, those with Jayhawk spirit can sign a good luck banner from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Wescoe Beach. The office-decorating contest will be judged that day as well.

The festive mood will continue to build with "Chalk n' Rock" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 5 at Wescoe Beach, and a pep rally will be from 6 to 8 p.m. in the KU Visitors Center parking lot.

Oct. 6 is designated as Crimson and Blue Spirit Day, and a "Get Down Concert" will be held from 6 to 11 p.m. at Eighth and Massachusetts streets.

Homecoming will wrap up Oct. 7 with a pancake breakfast from 6 to 11 a.m. on the lawn of Stauffer-Flint Hall. The cost of the breakfast is $5. A parade will make its way down Jayhawk Boulevard at 10 a.m. The football game will bring the festivities to an end. Game time is to be announced. For tickets, contact athletics at 864-3141 or 800-34-HAWKS.

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The original Blake Hall opened in 1895 and was named in honor of Lucien I. Blake (1853-1916), the physics and engineering professor who persuaded the legislature to spend $50,000 to build it. He left KU in 1906 to continue pioneering, lucrative research in electricity, X-rays and underwater wireless communications.