Tiaras, high heels, sashes and men in dresses; some of the things that were seen from the homecoming court at Homecoming Activities Night on Oct. 12 and the Mock Pep Rally on Oct. 13.
The winner of the mock rally was the iFalcon Club, which was led by iFalcon Club member and Economics Club President, Justin McIntyre, representing Raquel Ramirez.
McIntyre said, “I’m surprised; there were so many other good people out there. I was rocking these heels, but I thought I was going to fall up there, [the heels are] killing me right now but I guess I pulled it off.”
Men, chosen by each court member dressed up to look like their court member, wearing a dress, wig, makeup and one of the men even decided to wear high heels.
Individually, each man was escorted to the runway and was asked one question, followed by a dance to certain song that they had prepared.
The DJ first announced the court of seven running for queen. Afterward, the men were then introduced to the song “Dude Looks Like a Lady.”
Daniel Metrada, representing No. 4 Brittany Salazar, talked about why he decided to be a part of the mock rally, saying, “If you can’t make fun of yourself, life is not worth living.”
The contestants were judged by several members of the Cerritos College faculty, as well as the former 2010 Homecoming Queen, Crystina Leyva.
Activities Night was held in several classrooms in the Social Science building and continued to the Liberal Arts building. Six out of the seven princesses on court went to the classrooms and informed the students about elections as well as giving their name and a little information about themselves.
Afterward, the women gave the teachers and students a chance to ask them questions.
Diana Pham, candidate No. 6, talked about the activities night.
“It went well, we went through a lot of classes, we basically got out there and told people to come out and vote and come out to the homecoming game.”
Pham is being sponsored by the Spice Club.
Ramirez, No. 5 on court, discussed on how the homecoming activities might get students more involved with homecoming, said, “I feel like when students don’t see all these events going on campus, then they, there’s not a lot of things for me to get involved in,’ but when they see things to get involved in, they get interested and they say, ‘There are things to do at college besides just going to class and going home.”
Ramirez also ran for homecoming queen and made court last year. This year, she is being sponsored iFalcon.
This year’s homecoming queen will be crowned Saturday during the Cerritos College vs. El Camino College football game at halftime at Falcons Stadium.
The parade of floats will also take place at halftime.
On Oct. 22, there will be a homecoming dance at 9:30 inside the Student Center.
Students with a current Fall 2011 sticker will be able to get in for free along with a guest. There will be a dj there from 9:30 to 11:30.
