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Steve Smithrud: What we’re doing here is, this is the construction of the 2011 Theta
Tau parade homecoming float.
Steve Smithrud: Anyone whose interested comes and we just meet on couches and sit around
and talk about what we want to see and what we think meets with the theme. And the theme
this year is red, blue, and bold. You know, celebrating the bold history of the University
of Arizona.
Parker Barrett Imperl: Our idea of the boldness is we are going to have a rocket going over
Old Main, which is our gigantic structure we are building right now, which is essentially
our entire float. So we have a float committee and that’s comprised of a bunch of members,
but it’s got three basic heads to it and so they kind of foresee everything. They’re
like the foremen up here if you will and then all of our member help when they can.
Andreko Lennartz: It’s really just all about communication and seeing what other people,
um, what their ideas are and being open minded to new ideas and seeing if you can snowball
with a simple idea, because its really hard sometimes to come up with a good idea and
something that we haven’t already done in the past.
Steve Smithrud: Well we have a longstanding tradition of taking pride in the construction
of our floats; we’ve won for several years. But it’s not only that, we see ourselves
as engineers and part of that is doing what you can and celebrating the U of A as well
as just building something that people can go, “Wow, that’s so cool. How did they
do it?”
Parker Barrett Imperl: Without this I don’t know how people would know about us. We have
a lot of involvement on campus and we’ve really been pushing more recently for it,
but this is what people know us for. They go, “Oh, there’s the engineering float.
They’re going to win.” Or “It’s those engineers!” and they see a gigantic float
with some mechanical aspect to it that’s just ridiculous. And that’s why we do it,
its just for fun and pride.
Crowd chanting: U of A. U of A. U of A.