ISU students reunited with their parents for Family Weekend will be faced with the responsibility of entertaining their families.

With the various activities offered during the weekend, such as the Nebraska football game Saturday afternoon and the Dixie Chicks concert at Hilton Coliseum on Saturday night, students are not finding it a problem to keep their family busy.

Tammy Askeland, sophomore in elementary education, said she will be doing some female bonding with her family members this weekend. “My mom, sister and I are going to see the Dixie Chicks on Saturday night,” she said.

She said she wasn’t going to hang out with them in the afternoon for the Nebraska game, and she doesn’t know what she’ll do the rest of the weekend. “[My family] is going to tailgate with some friends from home,” Askeland said. “I have no idea what we’re going to do on Sunday.”

Other students have their weekend more planned. Jared Sletten, freshman in pre-business, said he will be “spending quality time together” with his parents and brother. “My brother and I are going to go to the game with one of his friends,” he said.

Sletten also said his parents might spoil him later on in the weekend with clothes and other items. “We’re going to go to Des Moines and go shopping,” he said.

Robert Beacom, freshman in liberal arts and sciences, said he won’t be attending the game because he couldn’t find any tickets. “We’re not going to go to the game,” he said. “I couldn’t get tickets [for my family] and I don’t have a student pass. We’ll probably just watch it on TV.”

He said he might treat his family to a free lunch at food service later on in the weekend. “I want to take them down to food service on Sunday, but I don’t know if they’re going to spend the night [on Saturday] yet,” he said.

Some students, like Melissa Lamkin, are seizing the opportunity of having their parents around to take them out to eat. “I’m gonna make them take me out to eat so I don’t have to eat food service,” said Lamkin, sophomore in mechanical engineering.