By Alicia A. Caldwell
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 20, 1997

All in the Family

Brian D. Rothschild Arizona Daily Wildcat Members of the UA drum corps hit the beat in front of Gallagher Theatre after the UA/ Washington football game.

Family Weekend brought a sea of red shirts, cameras and camcorders with parents attached chasing their starving students.

Each year families flock to the University of Arizona to see just what they pay for, this year was no exception.

Michelle Outlaw, Family Weekend director and criminal justice and public administration senior, expected some 2,000 people from 733 families to participate in the weekend's events. She said that number only represented the families that had registered through her office for the scheduled events.

Activities over the weekend included Saturday's football game against the Washington Huskies, which ended in a Wildcat 58-28 loss, tours of Tucson on Saturday morning and the presentation of Family Weekend awards at half time of Saturday's game.

Chris Richards Arizona Daily Wildcat Donnel Salizar, 12, watches the team lose 58-28 to Washington, Saturday afternoon.Members of the UA drum corps hit the beat in front of Gallagher Theatre after the UA/ Washington football game.

Families also had the chance to visit with the men's basketball team during Midnight Madness on Friday night at McKale Center.

Miles and Pat Weigold of Columbia, Md. and parents of Justin Weigold, physiology senior, said they were going to take in the football game, hoping to see an upset of the Huskies by the Wildcats.

They were also taking in the weather.

"We are celebrating the glorious Family Weekend weather," Pat Weigold said. The temperature hovered around 90 degrees, in contrast to last year's cold, rainy weekend.

Some made it a truly family event of their trip by bringing the brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents to visit with UA students this weekend.

Ryan A. Mihalyi Arizona Daily Wildcat Houston Rockets power forward Kevin Willis (42) shoots over Phoenix Suns Cliff Robinson (30). The Suns lost 121-110 during the exhibition game at McKale Center last night.

Students under 21 could be seen all over campus giving their parents the nickel tour of college education, while those in the older crowd gave their parents the tour of the local bar scene.

Nathaniel Schmidt, undeclared freshman, had his parents, Cecelia Wambaugh and Joe Schmidt along with some cousins come from California to visit with him.

Brian D. Rothschild Arizona Daily Wildcat Swing band Hipster Daddy-O and the Handgrenades perform at the post-game barbecue on the UA Mall.

Wambaugh said she was excited to see how her son was living here in Tucson, and as a professor at San Francisco State University, she also enjoyed seeing just how different this campus is.

"It's a magnificent campus," Wambaugh said of the UA.

Joe Schmidt was just looking forward to seeing the campus for the first time since his son started school.

Schimdt's family was planning to attend all the weekend events while in town.

All weekend the presence of parents was easily noticeable. Campus area restaurants were full of adults in Wildcat paraphernalia and mall stores were invaded by students taking full advantage of a visiting parent's generosity.

Katherine K. Gardiner Arizona Daily Wildcat Education sophomore, Tara Hausler stirs the large vat of batter during the annual family pancake breakfast Saturday morning on the UA Mall.

For example, by 3 p.m. on Saturday Carlos Murphy's, 419 W. Congress St., was booked beyond 9 p.m. because of the amount of people in town for the weekend.

Beyond how their student was performing in school, some parents were concerned about the performance of the football team.

"We are wild about the Wildcats," Larry Baskin said. "I would love to see them without Dick Tomey."

Larry and Barbara Baskin of Chicago came to visit their daughter Lindsay, a speech and hearing junior.

Baskin's comments came before the 30-point loss to the Huskies in Arizona Stadium.

Amy Ingledew, biology freshman, and her parents Kathy and Russell, said in addition to the football game they would be attending their daughter's Pledge Presents at the Pi Beta Phi sorority house.

The Ingledew's came from La Jolla, Calif. for the weekend events and were looking forward to seeing the campus and all the things Amy does here in Tucson.

"We always like to be involved in what out kids do," Kathy Ingledew said. "And this is a big parent involvement activity."