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MU Greeks to host community carnival
Caitlin Varley
Issue date: 11/2/07 Section: Campus
Miami University's Panhellenic Association and the Intrafraternity Council are teaming up to put on a carnival for the residents of the Oxford mobile home park Nov. 11.
The "Fall Festival" will take place in the Merry Day Park near the mobile home park, according to senior Katie Rause, vice president of community relations for the Panhellenic Association.
Rause said the carnival would include typical carnival games, face painting and active games for the older children, including kickball, basketball and sack races. Rause said they are hoping to get a Moon Bounce as well.
She added that they would also have healthy food, such as subs, juice and water, and school supplies for prizes.
"We felt that if we're going to give them prizes we could give them something they could really use and need," Rause said.
According to Rause, the planning for the carnival is being done by a community relations committee comprised of men from the Intrafraternity Council and women from the Panhellenic Association.
Rause said the members of Foundations, a program in the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Leadership made up of mostly sophomore Greek leaders, will be spending time with the residents of the mobile home park.
According to Josh Poling, vice president of service and philanthropy for the Intrafraternity Council, the idea to hold the carnival in the mobile home park came from Bobbe Burke.
Burke, coordinator of Office of Off-Campus Affairs for Miami, said that students in the Panhellenic Association and the Intrafraternity Council have tried to have carnivals at local elementary schools in the past, but there was not as big of a need because the schools have their own carnivals.
"They have an idea and they try to make it into a service project and really what we should be doing is flipping that, and we should be going to the community saying what do you need and then we create our project around that," Burke said.
The "Fall Festival" will take place in the Merry Day Park near the mobile home park, according to senior Katie Rause, vice president of community relations for the Panhellenic Association.
Rause said the carnival would include typical carnival games, face painting and active games for the older children, including kickball, basketball and sack races. Rause said they are hoping to get a Moon Bounce as well.
She added that they would also have healthy food, such as subs, juice and water, and school supplies for prizes.
"We felt that if we're going to give them prizes we could give them something they could really use and need," Rause said.
According to Rause, the planning for the carnival is being done by a community relations committee comprised of men from the Intrafraternity Council and women from the Panhellenic Association.
Rause said the members of Foundations, a program in the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Leadership made up of mostly sophomore Greek leaders, will be spending time with the residents of the mobile home park.
According to Josh Poling, vice president of service and philanthropy for the Intrafraternity Council, the idea to hold the carnival in the mobile home park came from Bobbe Burke.
Burke, coordinator of Office of Off-Campus Affairs for Miami, said that students in the Panhellenic Association and the Intrafraternity Council have tried to have carnivals at local elementary schools in the past, but there was not as big of a need because the schools have their own carnivals.
"They have an idea and they try to make it into a service project and really what we should be doing is flipping that, and we should be going to the community saying what do you need and then we create our project around that," Burke said.
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