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Go BLUE Give GREEN
Annual fundraiser keeps Island University operating year-round
by GERI LEMMONS staff writer
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o Blue Give Green is a campaign geared toward raising money for the campus and the students that attend Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Go Blue Give Green is a monthlong campaign to help raise money for scholarships, endowments and many more things that are needed around campus for the staff and students. Blair Sterba-Boatwright, faculty co-chair of Go Blue Give Green and Island University science and engineering professor, said this is a great opportunity for students and staff to help their community. “We are just starting so things around this campaign are still growing,” Sterba-Boatwright said. Anyone can make a donation to this campaign to help out with its cause of helping students. Small or large gifts are accepted in order to help make student dreams come true. The fund raiser was started last year as a way to help bring students
and staff together in a way that has never happened before. It offered a way for people to raise awareness about giving back to their alma mater and always being able to help those that are either teaching or the ones learning. Student Foundation president Elizabeth Parker said this is a great opportunity for faculty and staff to see students work. “It is nice seeing how much it has grown and see how much it is growing,” Parker said. “It is some-
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thing that they, the students, faculty and staff, have never done before and it helps them all try to strive for that one common goal.” Monday Sept. 7 was Tag Day, a day that people could recognize the donors and who has given to the university by seeing a tag. Donors display a banner on their office doors along with “I Gave” stickers. So far the campaign and the money being raised are still growing. The Go Blue Give Green program will last for a whole month,
so there is plenty of time for others to donate in the meantime. Some of the money goes toward helping with department programs all around the school. There are different membership levels involved with the whole campaign. There is the Island Club that features donations that range from $50 to $99, followed by the Century Club, which goes from $100 to $249 and Dean’s Society, which goes from $250 to $499. There is see GREEN on page 3