A Rotaract Christmas

Each year Rotaract contributes to Operation Christmas Child, which is an event sponsored by Samaritan’s Purse in order to distribute gifts to underprivileged children overseas. Rotaract and other student organizations work together to decorate shoe boxes or plastic containers and fill them with school supplies, hygiene products, and toys. If you would like to get involved to help a less fortunate child please contact a member of Rotaract or e-mail them at utmrotaract@hotmail.com

The National Association of Black Journalist

The National Association of Black Journalist will be taking a two day trip to St. Louis November 5-7. They will be visiting a series of media venues which will include: News Channel 11, Alive Magazine, and the St. Louis American (an African American weekly Newspaper). NABJ is looking forward to the adventure and are hoping that it is a distinguishing learning experience.

PRSSA President goes to London

PRSSA President Rebecca Alsup recently returned from a study abroad trip to London. The trip was afforded to her by the Jerald Ogg Scholarship and the Communications Department. Rebecca is a Public Relations major at UT Martin and the purpose of her trip was to attend London Metropolitan and report back to UT Martin the similarities and differences of the PR programs offered at each school. Other than comparing the two programs Rebecca also had to lay the ground work for the ment where they exchange one student each semester to attend classes at the other school. This would help broaden the PR program at both schools. Forget all work and no play, in her spare time Rebecca was able to do sight seeing, learn of London’s history, and she also was able to do a day long internship with Heat Magazine. Rebecca feels that this experience helped improve her leadership skills ant taught her more about how her major can apply in different places.

Banner Competition

Each year during homecoming Alumni Relations holds a banner competition that consists of 4 categories: Open, Departmental, Sorority and Fraternity. All student organizations that participated fall into the open category and this year the winner of the open category was Tri Beta, the Honorary Biological society. To find out the winners of the other categories, please contact Alumni Relations for more information.

Can Sculpture Contest

Each year the Rotaract club holds a can sculpture contest during homecoming, in which organizations on campus collect as many cans as they can and create a sculpture out of them. Once the contest is over all of the cans that are used in the contest are donated to the We Care for the needy families in the community. This year the sisters of Chi Omega Sorority won the contest for the best sculpture. Congratulations!

JARS Drawing Contest

This year the Japanese Animation Research Society held a drawing competition for their new T-shirt design. Sophomore Graphic Design Major Terran Qualls, was the winner of the JARS drawing contest. He says his inspiration for the drawing came from an idea he used for the Visual Arts Society’s banner (in the banner competition) with a dash of anime flare. Terran drew 12 different pictures for the group members to review and decide upon; his artistic abilities allowed him to win the contest and be the responsible figure for the new T-shirt design. JARS is an active student organization on the UTM campus and is growing in numbers every year.