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Friday, Oct. 18 6 a.m. WMHW-FM 91.5 Alumni Takeover Tune in to 91.5 FM to hear alumni take over the student radio station all weekend, continuing 24 hours through midnight Saturday. 7 p.m. Rock Rally, Plachta Auditorium Go to Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium for the pep rally, mock rock contest for the Maroon Cup, presentation of the football team and the announcement of the 2013 Homecoming Gold Ambassadors. Saturday, Oct. 19 7:30 a.m. Check-in for 5K run and Miles for Medals fundraising run/walk Choose a 5K run/walk or a one-mile fun run/walk. Register online at firstgiving. com/cmu5k/cmu5k2013. All proceeds benefit Special Olympics Michigan. 9:30 a.m. Alumni Continental Breakfast and 50-year reunion Start your day with a complimentary breakfast outside Powers Hall and stay right here to watch the parade. 11 a.m. Homecoming parade The annual parade begins in Parking Lot 22 and travels through campus before heading north on Main Street to downtown Mount Pleasant. 11 a.m.-noon CMU Memories: History in the Making Stop by the Charles V. Park Library and leave your mark on CMU history. Alumni are invited to leave a photo, letter or note regarding their time as a student at CMU and add it to displays created to represent student life from various decades. Noon-3 p.m. Alumni Village at Rose Ponds Join the free campuswide celebration near Rose Ponds for food, fun and friends. WMHWFM alumni will broadcast live on location. Visit with a favorite professor, grab some food and soak up the atmosphere that is CMU Homecoming. 1 p.m. Cardboard Boat Race CMU engineering students race to the finish by sailing their cardboard creations across Rose Ponds. 1-3 p.m. CMU Homecoming Children's Activities Celebrate CMU's 121st anniversary with children's activities hosted by the Museum of Cultural and Natural History at Alumni Village. Children can try on vintage football and cheerleader uniforms, learn a CMU cheer, sing the CMU fight song and practice marching. 3 p.m. Football game vs. Northern Illinois Behind the Phrase: When did the phrase "Fire Up Chips" first come into CMU parlance? Clarke Historical Library Reference Assistant Bryan Whitledge helped us hunt down the answer. "We believe that the 'Fire Up Chips' saying dates from the late 1960s," Whitledge says. "The first time that the term appears in Central Michigan Life is 1967 and relates to a homecoming float by Calkins Hall which carried the term." In the early 1970s, "Fire Up Chips" started to appear regularly throughout the student newspaper and yearbooks. Now it's your turn – were you a Calkins Hall resident or a student during the 1960s who could shed some light on the beginning of this phrase? Drop us a line at alumni@cmich.edu. centralight fall '13 21 21