Many student organizations are pomping floats and pounding nails to prepare for 1993 Homecoming, but some students and organizations can't find the time to work on a project --and still others feel excluded from the activities.

Cindy Onsa (junior-nutrition) is a member of Phi Mu, 2 Hiester, and a little sister at Sigma Nu, 340 N. Burrowes Road. As a member of these two organizations, Onsa said it is easy to see why many non-Greek students think it is hard to get involved.

"If I wasn't in both things, I wouldn't see any way to get involved," Onsa said.

Ida Lopez (junior-psychology) said students who aren't directly involved in a group really have to make an effort to get involved.

"If you look at any of the Homecoming posters, it's all football players and Greeks," Lopez said.

But Virginia Goodfriend, administrative assistant for the overall Homecoming committee, said the event is definitely not Greek only.

Any student can fill out an application to be on the overall committee or any of the individual committees, Goodfriend said. Although there are no non-Greek students on the overall committee this year, it is a definite possibility next year, Goodfriend said.

There are non-Greek students on the individual committees this year, she said, and all the events are open to non-Greek students.

Many non-Greek student organizations make it a point to get involved.

Marcella Nixon, president of Black Caucus, said the group plans to march in the parade on Friday and hold its 10th annual Homecoming banquet this weekend.

Womyn's Concerns is participating in the window-painting activity. Jodi Zisser, treasurer of Womyn's Concerns, said the group is limiting its participation to window painting because of a lack of time and resources, but added that the Homecoming theme, "All Together Now," closely relates to what feminism is all about.

Beginning this year, there will be only one category for all organizations competing in events, Goodfriend said, adding that previously all organizations were put into either a Greek or non-Greek category.

Although many groups make it a point to get involved with the festivities, some, such as the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Student Alliance, just don't have the time.

But some students don't even associate Homecoming with the word "Greek" --they take the word literally. Home-coming.

Tina Savant (senior-human development and family studies) said she doesn't think Homecoming is really for non-Greek students, but it could be if they made an effort to get involved. Savant said she thinks of Homecoming in a different light.

"I think of Homecoming as the time when my friends who are alumni come back to visit," Savant said.