Campus Life campaign encourages students to get involved

While students have started seeing the “Campus Life is Good” slogan around campus, the campaign has only just begun. Campus Life will use free T-shirts, raffles, and other giveaways as a lure to get more students involved with the over 100 organizations available to them.

PJ Schinella, the graduate assistant of promotions and marketing of the department of Campus Life, is in charge of promoting the “Campus Life is Good” campaign.

“Essentially, we’re trying to really entice people to come to campus activities and campus events,” Schinella said. “It’s a motivational thing like, ‘hey, you should come to this because you have the potential of receiving a free T-shirt.’ ”

Students will see posters and life-size cutouts all over campus advertising the T-shirts. More information on the campaign will soon only be a click away.

“We’re setting up a Web site for it through OrgSync,” Schinella said.

Students who have not yet registered with OrgSync don’t need to worry about learning how to do so on their own.

“We’ll pass out handouts explaining to people how they can register to OrgSync and what they can do to get T-shirts,” Schinella said.

Tom Miles, the director of Campus Life, is one of the people in charge of distributing the shirts.

“There are 150 of every color and there are six colors,” Miles said. “That’s 900 shirts.”

Each of the six colors depict an area of campus life: blue for Greek Life, orange for recreational sports, red for the GIVE Center, yellow for the Student Activity Center and Campus Activities Board, and brown and green for general Campus Life.

To obtain a green shirt from Miles, students must be registered into OrgSync. Miles will provide a clue that students must try to decipher to figure out the location of the virtual coupon on OrgSync.

The three winners of the last contest found the coupon for the shirt in the site’s lost and found section under classifieds.

“The next one that I do is going to be a big one so that I get a lot of shirts out there,” Miles said.

The brown general shirts are given out at random Campus Life events to try and increase attendance.

The blue Greek Life shirts are only given to members of Greek organizations. These shirts can be earned by being Greek of the Week or a Greek Superlative winner.

The orange recreational sports shirts will go to only one team per sport. The teams must have the worst record of wins with the highest sportsmanship rating.

The red GIVE Center shirts will be given out to volunteers that log their hours, fill out surveys and participate in signature events of the center, such as its blood drives or Project Impact.

Kendall Stiles, director of the GIVE Center, is hoping to put out 20 to 25 boxes around campus for students to place their volunteer log sheets. She is then planning on using those sheets to hold a monthly raffle.

“We’re going to draw two out each month,” Stiles said. “One is going to be for a guy and one is going to be for a girl. It doesn’t matter if (they have) one hour or 500.”

Winners of the raffle will receive a T-shirt and a $10 iTunes gift card.

The yellow Student Activity Center and CAB shirts are given out by Caroline Davis, director of the Campus Activities Board and a sophomore mass communication major.

To get a yellow shirt, students must earn 25 volunteer hours by working CAB events or attending at least five events.

“CAB is in the process of trying to figure out how to do punch cards of some sort and that is how CAB is going to track it,” Davis said.

Besides receiving a free T-shirt, there is another bonus. Every person that manages to earn a T-shirt will automatically be put in a drawing for a grand prize of $1,000 in cash. The drawing will be held at the end of the year at the Bobcat Awards ceremony. Second and third place winners of the drawing will receive $500 and $250 respectively.

The idea of “Campus Life is Good” campaign has an important meaning to the Campus Life department.

“The whole essence behind (the slogan) is that our students make life on the campus good by their involvement, the things they do,” Miles said. “That’s sort of the nature of the campaign. It’s not a campaign for the office. It’s a campaign about all that our students do on the campus to make it fun and exciting.”

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