footer.php: including the minified master javascript file from the parent theme in addition to the minified file from the casi theme.
gulpfile.js: removing the jquery 2.1.1 file, and the rainyday file from the gulp scripts task. There was a conflict with having both versions of jquery
page-home.php: basically I copied everything from the parent "page-home.php" except on line 338, I removed a call to a function named "uwmadison_events", which was causing a fatal error