By ASHLEY WHITE | Guest Writer
APSU is competing off-field against MTSU for school supplies.
There is a school supply drive competition going on to help support teachers in Montgomery and Rutherford counties. Both counties have a dire need for school supplies, as do many Tennessee schools.
Each University will be collecting different items based on the needs for each community. The drive will start Monday, Aug. 30, and continue until Friday, Sept. 10.
At APSU there will be over 20 collection bins throughout campus.
A list of items that are being collected will be distributed through The Gov Says, the daily campus announcements distributed through e-mail, as well as reminders about the drive.
APSU’s donations will go to the Teachers Warehouse, an organization that helps provide materials to teachers in Montgomery County.
As a great incentive, the Athletic Department is offering free tickets to the football game against MTSU. The first 200 students who bring a school supply to the Thursday, Sept. 2, football game against Cumberland University, they will receive the free tickets.
The competition is a great opportunity to give back to the teachers and students in both counties but it is up to the APSU community to take the initiative and donate items needed.
APSU’s SGA and Peay Nuts are helping in the efforts to generate support for the event.
To ensure fairness, since MTSU is a larger institution, a point system has been created.
Each item has a point value and at the end of each day the bins will be emptied and points tallied.
At the end of the competition, the total points will be divided by the number of undergraduate students in each university for the final score. TAS
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