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Updates for June 21, 2010
Catching the Roo Fever
By: Emma Egli
Bonnaroo’s 9th year delivers fan favorites
Walking through a sea of tents in the blazing hot sun, you’re struck with the notion that Bonnaroo’s Tent City kinda feels like the Quidditch World Cup camps in Harry Potter; you did quite literally just walk by a kid in a wizard outfit, right…
Updates for May 5, 2010
Muggles unite for quidditch on the quad
By: Sarah McNaughton | Scene reporter
The high-energy game, complete with Golden Snitch, makes for a perfect way to unwind
Passers-by of Gerlinger Lawn on any given Saturday afternoon are likely to see sophomore Charmaine Ng passing the Quaffle. That’s not a typo, and no, she’s not crazy.
She’s just playing Quidditch, the Harry Potter universe’s favor…
Updates for April 9, 2010
Quidditch tourney returns to UA
By: Emily Moore
Capes, brooms and golden snitches on campus. Impossible? Maybe not. Saturday marks the second annual UA Muggle Quidditch Tournament. The event starts at 9 a.m. on the Highland Green. As of Thursday, there are roughly 120 people in the tournament, making t…
Updates for November 16, 2009
Students give flight to Quidditch team at university
Updates for November 4, 2009
Wizard sport comes to USC
Gamecock Quidditch brings magical game to Muggle world
Quidditch has finally been brought to the Muggle world. And to USC….
Updates for October 21, 2009
Quidditch team comes to Tufts
Tufts’ newest sports team is perhaps its most unorthodox. Started this semester, Tufts’ Quidditch team adapts the magical sport depicted in author J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series into one playable by mere “muggles.” The ne…
Updates for October 13, 2009
Muggle World Turned Magic
The Student Activities Center looked eerily like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 7. Below, on the West Lawn, a new Quidditch field had been installed, and students with brooms between their legs ran……
Greeks rock Louisville’s Got Talent
Just as the Quidditch tournament on Oct. 7 incorporated the famous Harry Potter books, Louisville’s Got Talent brought a popular television show to campus. Louisville’s Got Talent, held on Oct. 8, was the first Student Lip Sync Showcase held a…
Updates for October 2, 2009
Video: Magical Maryland
Students start the university’s first quidditch team, hoping to make it to the 2010 Quidditch World Cup. …
Updates for September 28, 2009
Magical skills not required for TTU Muggle Quidditch group
Collegiate Quidditch is sweeping the nation. Literally….
From the Hogwarts houses to McKeldin Mall
University’s quidditch team brings Harry Potter sport to life
Alert the Ministry of Magic: Quidditch players have been sighted beating, chasing and seeking in the middle of McKeldin Mall, in plain-view of Muggles and the rest of the university. But Firebolts and Nimbus 2000s were replaced with standard broomsticks a…
Letter to the Editor: This year’s ‘State of the University’ gets less attention than others
I heard more about the Harry Potter Quidditch Tournament than I did the State of the University Address. In fact, I had not seen or heard anything from anyone about the address. In last year’s address, President Ramsey talked mostly about the scanda…
