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Homecoming
October 31,2013
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Sigma Chi wins Silver Bugle Hunt for the first time
7. Matthew Weinzetl, Johnathan
Akins, Cody Johnson, and Desmond
Robinson show off the Silver Bugle
they found, (photo by: Brittany
Broussard)
2. Tarleton Ambassadors and
student volunteers read clues to
participants, (photo by: Heather
Capps)
3. Delta Zeta participants were easy
to spot in tutus and bows, (photo by:
Heather Capps)
4. Justin Martinez, Ricardo Rivera,
Justin Cooper, Ryne Clem, Kelly Isom
and Brandi Fleming represented
P.A.N.K.U.S. in the hunt, (photo by:
Gretchen Kirchner)
by Joshua Harville
Staff Writer
Sigma Chi found the hidden silver
bugle for the first time ever during
the 2013 Silver Bugle Hunt.
This year’s Silver Bugle Hunt
was organized and executed by
James Lehr, Director of Community
Relations, and Sue Goodman,
Community Relations Officer.
The hunt for the silver bugle is a
tradition based off of old history
between rival schools John Tarleton
Agricultural College and North
Texas Agricultrual College.
Whichever school lost the big
football game had to present the
winner with a silver bugle. In their
very last game against JTAC, NTAC
lost the bugle, and now Tarleton
students search the campus every
Homecoming for the silver treasure.
The event is founded on students
knowing and recalling various facts
about Tarleton’s history.
At the end of the questioning round,
the teams with the most correct
answers get various parts of a clue,
depending on how many questions
the team answered correctly, to
where the bugle is hidden.
“Nearly all but one of the questions
came out of the Purple Book [The
Traditions Handbook], It’s available
online and there are free copies
of it around the campus, so it was
accessible to everybody,” Goodman
said.
The Sigma Chi fraternity’s first
winning team was composed of
members Johnathan Akins, freshman
pre-veterinarian medicine major;
Cody Johnson, freshman political
science major; Matthew Weinzetl,
senior speech communications
major; and Desmond Robinson,
junior marketing major.
In an interview after the event, the
team spoke of their victory.
“We studied like two hours,” Akins
said. “We assembled our team like an
hour and a half before the hunt.”
“The clue given was ‘Wisdom
south leaf box’,” Weinzetl said.
“We were only missing three or four
letters.”
Robinson continued, “It was pretty
much spelled out.”
“Some of these questions seemed
too easy so you second guess yourself,
but Des was like ‘Let’s go! ’ So I took
off running and there was another
team kind of close to me, I got there
and started poking around a little bit
and [Akins and Johnson] showed up
after me and kept poking around the
little bushes and [Johnson] found it.”
Johnson found the elusive bugle
under a bush in the southern-most
plant box on the south side of Wisdom
Gym, just like the clue hinted.
“[Weinzetl] had just checked the
same area and I just kind of reached
under a bush. Something wasn’t leafy
so I grabbed it. I had already grabbed
a wrapper too,” Johnson recalled. “I
grabbed the bugle and I didn’t really
know what to do with it at first.”
“He showed me and I freaked out,”
Weinzetl added.
“I can’t even put it into words, it’s
spectacular,” Robinson said about
Sigma Chi’s first successful hunt.
“It’s a good start to Homecoming
week, that’s for sure,” Weinzetl
concluded.
This year had many firsts for the
hunt. Not only was it Sigma Chi’s
first victory, but there were seven
teams tied for a place in the finals, it
was Lehr and Goodman’s first year to
organize the hunt, and the bugle was
not hidden in the original 40 acres of
the campus, as in previous years.
Goodman justified the change in
location saying, “The reason it was
in the original 40 acres was for safety,
because there were still cars driving
through the campus. But now that
those roads have been blocked, that
opens up a whole new set of places
where we can hide it.”
“It’s top secret,” Lehr said. “We
spend weeks and weeks looking for
a good place for the bugle. This was
our first year to do the whole thing
from start to completion and it’s been
a lot of fun.”
“It was fun to make up the questions
and prepare the game pieces, the
letters, and everything,” Goodman
said. “And again, this is my first time
to be at a silver bugle hunt and it’s so
exciting to see so much enthusiasm
and the students really getting into
it and playing the game. It’s just a
wonderful tradition.”
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