Flashcards and Intramurals

Intramural Soccer

Spirits paired up with Texas Wranglers this fall semester for intramural outdoor soccer! Girls participating on the team include Andrea Chao, Gabe Dobbins, Rachel Sawyers, Jessica Cox, Bridget Dunn, Bernadette Creasey, and club soccer girls Shannon Funke and Hannah Waitt. So far, our team has done awesome, winning 2 out of 3 games played! The score for the first win was 8-1, and the second win was 10-2. Hannah Waitt has currently scored over 4 of the team’s goals (female goals count for 2 points). Their toughest game yet is this upcoming week and will determine whether or not they make it to the playoffs!

Flashcards

Tejas invited the girls over for breakfast tacos before flashcards for the #24 ranked UT vs. OSU home game on October 15, 2011. Girls came over in casual uniform and then headed out to the stadium to prepare the flashcards section. 

Spirits Eating Lunch at the Tejas House

This was the Weenie’s first time for flashcards, and they did an awesome job! The week's flashcard design consisted of an orange UT tower, with a white number one lit up in the middle. 

Weenies at Flashcards

Stadium Jumbotron View of Flashcard Section

Horns Give: Bastrop

This past Sunday, a group of Spirits took part in Horns Give: Bastrop. This event, arranged by Student Government, allowed for UT students and organizations the opportunity to travel out to Bastrop and work on the scene of the recent wild fires. The girls had the opportunity to help homeowners remove debris and search through the rebel where their homes once stood. 

Alexa Pawlowski, Spring ’11 said, “It was so great that many different UT organizations could get together and help out with the relief efforts on a tragedy that hit so close to home. Helping out was a very rewarding experience.”

Thank you to all the girls who came out to help out this great cause!

SOW/WOW

Weenie Of the Week: Erin Crandall!
Name: Erin Crandall
Year: Freshman
Major: Bilingual Education
Weirdest hobby: Knitting
Four words that describe you: Chicago. Sweet. Loyal. Stubborn.
Theme song of your life: Little Miss by Lady Antebellum .
I couldn't live a day without...my teddy bear Teddy.
One word to describe your Weeniehood so far: bonding!!!

Erin is a freshman Fall '11 Weenie studying Bilingual Elementary Education. She is such an outgoing girl and an absolute blast to be around. Last week, Erin and her fellow Weenie sisters had a great night bonding around the camp fire at Weenie Roast: a memory we all cherish from our Weenie semester. Besides being a wonderful part of this new weenie class, Erin is an outstanding addition to our organization as a whole. She is one of the funniest people you will ever meet and we cannot wait to see how much she shines over the next four years. Great job, Erin!


Spirit Of the Week: Hannah Waitt!
Name: Hannah Waitt
Major: Plan II Honors/International Relations
Weirdest Habit: I do everything in rhythm: I use my car turn signal blinker in tempo with the song that's playing, I chew my gum in tempo, brush my teeth in tempo, walk, run, type, everything in tempo! A result of being a band kid in high school? Most likely.
Four words that describe you: Lively, Dexterous, Virile, and Adept (I took an online quiz, so it has to be true right?).
Theme song of your life: Of my whole life?? That's hard. I guess I would say right now it's "Stop This Train" by John Mayer.
Favorite Spirits Memory: Hmm...there are literally an infinite amount to choose from, but I would have to go with Spring Break 2011 *coughSPRING10cough*. That trip definitely brought my Weenie class a lot closer and created some hilarious memories!
Describe Texas Spirits in one word: anincredibleorganizationwithamazingwomenthatiamsoproudandhonoredtobeapartofandcantbedescribedinjustoneword. Don't worry, it's a word. I saw it in Webster's.
Next time you see me ask me about: K-Pop. Seriously, I'll tell you everything you'd ever need to know.

Hannah Waitt is a Spring 2010 Weenie that has proved to be a huge asset to Texas Spirits. Every semester, she works hard to film and put together a recruitment video, a tap out video, and coming soon an alumnae reunion video. Also being in Kappa Delta, Hannah has helped form friendships between Texas Spirits and KDs by helping plan a lunch together and a date event downtown, Dia de La Date Night. Her unique personality, sense of humor, and hard work in Texas Spirits is much appreciated. Keep up the good work Hannah!

Jr./Sr. Date Skate!

Fall '09 Spirits

Girls just wanna have fun! And girls had their fun skating to 80s favorites with their dates at Date Skate!

Spring '10 Spirits

Spirits and their dates came dressed head to toe in 80s gear (with a few exceptions rocking the 70s look) to skate their night away. They did the "hokey pokey", the "cha cha slide", and even "the wobble" out on the rink. Who knew you could wobble in roller skates? 

Overall, it was a fun and memorable night out for the upperclassmen Spirits to take a much needed mental break from tests, work, other organization responsibilities, and (for some) the quickly approaching day of graduation!

Band Jam Fundraising

Band Jam fundraising has reached new heights this year from profit shares with local vendors. Businesses around campus, including Spicy Pickle, Cornucopia, and Pita Pit have already participated in profit shares where various amounts of proceeds from Texas Spirit’s sales go directly to Make-A-Wish. Red Mango, Austin’s Pizza and Schlotzsky’s have also agreed to partner up with us to grant some wishes. Band Jam committee member and Fall ’09 weenie Sharilyn Stone has been working hard to make this the best Band Jam yet.

“I was a little nervous when we began contacting different businesses to help our cause, but when I made my first call to Spicy Pickle, they were so awesome!” Stone said. “Everyone is so wiling to help out. Profit shares are definitely a win-win situation for everyone!”

The Texas Spirits Bake Sale in front of Gregory Gym on Monday, October 31 will have Halloween themed goodies for sale. All profits will to straight to Make-A-Wish.

Tickets for the 16th annual Band Jam go on sale this Wednesday, October 19. For more details, visit http://www.txspiritsbandjam.com/.

Keeping it Spooky, Since 1941

All Hallo’s Weenie

Spooks, Ghouls, Haunts… there is no doubt that the Halloween spirit is reflected in our 70 year-old Texas Tradition. To get into the spirit of the season, take a look at our spooky past…

Texas Spooks 1971

It’s All in the Name:

Grace Doss and Wanda Lee Turner founded Texas Spooks in 1941. Why Spooks you ask?... In order to reflect the organization’s secrecy.

Shhh…It’s a secret:

The 30 member organization would secretly meet in restaurants and sorority houses dressed in “ghostly garb” of hoods, masks and sheets.

Spooky Serenades:

The members would light red candles and sing to the football players in order to “spook” away bad luck.

Drag Paint Disguise:

Drag paint would be conducted in the middle of night, in order to keep our organization under wraps.  We keep this tradition alive today with our Midnight Drag Wars every semester.

HalloWEENies:

We call our beloved new members, Weenies, because they used to be welcomed into the organization on Halloween.  The name has stuck ever since.

This is Why We're Haunt:

In 1966, our Executive Board, tagged the name Haunt to the end of their titles, and are referred to as Ghost Council.

Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun:

In 1970, we started up our big/little sister program, and lovingly refer to our matches as Ghoulfriends.

The Symbol:

The skull and crossbones aren’t so scary when you add the cute little bow. Say hello to Casperella… Caspy , for short, our mascot.

CIWY:

For us to know, and you to never find out…

CI Happy Haunting! WY

Michelle Sereno, Fall’08

From Weenies to Roomies

Weenies, roomies, bridesmaids. Since 1941, that has been the natural progression of the average Texas Spirit. However, none of us are getting married anytime soon, so for now we welcome you take a look into the sweet life of Spirit living! 

Spring ’10 Weenies
Roll Call!
Alex Janecka: Paul
Caroline Suter: That Carol
Neven Simpson: Mama Nev
Andrea Chao: Dr. Dre

House Name: That 2308!

The Story/Favorite Funny Memory: Spring Break 2011. "Crawfish, crawfish!" Enough said.


Fall ’10 Weenies
Roll Call!
Hilary Elrod: The Hopeless Romantic
Ari Rios: The Mother Hen
Becki Kendall: The Spitfire
Lauren Means: The Heartbreaker
Guru: The Study Fish (not pictured)

The Story:
To be honest, we never really sat down and discussed living together. Once we met each other at Weenie O'Ahu it was love at first sight and from then on it was assumed the four of us would be roommates. We truly are perfect for each other!

Favorite Funny Memory:
Our favorite memories have to do with any time we are pulling pranks on one another! Best ones include: throwing cold water in the shower, tying the faucet so that water sprayed out (Becki), hiding items to the point of freak out, and multiple scaring in dark corners. PRANK COUNT: Ari and Lauren: 4.5 Becki and Hilary: 0.5


Fall ’10 Weenies
Roll Call!
Taylor Foreman: The Clean Freak
Becca Moore: The Mom
Sara Edwards: The Garbage Disposal.
Morgan Riley: The Wild Child

House Name: The Sahara... there's a lot of brown and tan paint and furniture. (It's also a really funny ongoing inside joke between the four of us.)

The Story: Really it was all in God's plan for us to live together... and the super cheap rent definitely helped with our decision. We're so glad that we're all roommates this year though! It seems like we've grown so much closer these past few weeks of living together.

Favorite Funny Memory: HA this one is kind of a series of unfortunate events that just turned out to be hilarious. One night we had a few people over and we were all just hanging out in the living room. Then out of nowhere, Taylor's dog Tinsley was suddenly POOPING on the rug in the MIDDLE of the living room! So of course all hell breaks loose as Taylor starts freaking out trying to get Tinsley outside and she winds up slipping in the poop. Yes, she slipped in dog poop. We all couldn't help but bust out laughing at the situation.


Fall ‘10 Weenies
Roll Call!
Taylor Francis: Mama Tay
Dannye Osburn: Baby Dan
Ghada Soufan: Grown up Ghads

House Name: The Palace

The Story: We didn't want to live far away so we all got together and decided to live in West Campus. Luck of the draw because its worked out great!

Favorite Funny Memory: Anytime Ghada tries to do anything domestic like cooking or laundry it turns into a huge roommate affair. Needless to say we've already managed to almost break our sink, mopped the walls, and have become uncomfortably close with the maintenance man.