Contact: Julie Navejar
kajam03@tamuk.edu or
361-593-2590
A&M-Kingsville Students Help
Community In Bigger Event
System student service project is a way to say “thanks”
KINGSVILLE (March 22, 2007) — Students from Texas A&M
University-Kingsville will hit the streets of Kingsville to
say “thank you” to the community for continued support
of the university during The Bigger Event, Saturday, March 24.
The Bigger Event will kick off at 8:30 a.m. with students at
their work sites around the city by 9 a.m. and completing the
assigned tasks by about 1 p.m. The event is sponsored by the
A&M-Kingsville Student Government Association and the Texas
A&M University System’s Chancellor’s Student
Advisory Board.
The idea originated in 1982 when Joe Nussbaum, then vice president
of the Student Government Association at Texas A&M University
in College Station organized a community service project. The
Big Event has since become the largest, one-day student-run
service project in the nation. This year, The Bigger Event will
have participation from other A&M System universities.
Student organizations at A&M-Kingsville that will be participating
in The Bigger Event include Student Government Association,
the Indian Student Association, the Geosciences Club. ROTC,
PEP Talk, the American Medical Student Association, the American
Marketing Association, Psi Chi, the Campus Activities Board,
Delta Phi Epsilon, the Pre-Pharmacy Association, Lambda Chi
Alpha and the American Pharmacists Association from the Irma
Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy.
Event jobs will include washing windows, cleaning and sweeping,
painting, picking up trash, raking, trimming and moving or digging
dirt.
Student groups will be working at several public locations,
including the 300 block of West Avenue B, the 1000 block of
Fourth Street, the 800 block between Third and Fourth Streets,
the 200 block between Nettie and Ella, the 1200 block of 10th
Street, the 200 block of W. Corral, the 1400 block of North
Fourth Street at Avenue D and near the intersection of U.S.
Highway 77 and King Street.
For more information about The Bigger Event, call 361-593-2760.
