SGA to host t-shirt exchange
Just in time for the first home football game of the year Saturday, the Student Government Association is offering students a chance to show their Chippewa pride.
The CMU Bookstore, in conjunction with the SGA, will host a T-shirt exchange from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The exchange started yesterday and continues through Friday.
Students can bring in any Michigan college or university T-shirt in usable condition and trade it for a brand-new, free CMU gold T-shirt.
The traded shirts will then be divided up and sent to a Goodwill location near the advertised school.
The shirts may be exchanged on a first-come-first-serve basis all week, while supplies last.
SGA President Marie Reimers said the idea is a way to raise school spirit and heighten awareness of the SGA.
“I hear that a lot of students don’t know what SGA is, so I wanted to do something that was more tangible that can get everyone involved,” Reimers said. “Hopefully, this will become a tradition that we can continue with in the future.”
Reimers is hopeful the exchange will have a great impact on school spirit, and said she cannot wait to see every Chippewa walk around in new T-shirts.
“This is the perfect and easiest way to show school pride and represent CMU, all while turning in old T-shirts to Goodwill,” she said. “I am looking forward to seeing these shirts on everyone at the upcoming games.”
While the exchange has only just begun, students are slowly becoming informed and inclined to the idea.
Jenison junior Jeff Thigpen said the idea can help students identify more with their school at football games.
“Other colleges are always representing theirs schools, like (the University of Michigan), you can clearly identify the student section(because) all the students (are) wearing maize,” Thigpen said. “At CMU, we lack that sometimes by not wearing one single, solid color. If everyone joins in on the exchange, then it will make our school look united.”
