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University of Montana students to host 'Big Event' day of service and campus festival
Summary
University of Montana students will run a community service day, the 'Big Event,' on Saturday, April 25, pairing two-hour neighborhood projects with a 5 p.m. campus music festival featuring student performers, vendors and donated raffle prizes.
Jenny, host of the Heart of Missoula radio show, interviewed Devin Carpenter, director for new student success at the University of Montana, about the university’s first local iteration of the Big Event, a student-run day of service that began at Texas A&M in the 1980s and now is used by more than 100 colleges nationwide.
Carpenter said the UM event is scheduled for Saturday, April 25. Students will gather on the Oval for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff before teams travel to nearby homes and partner organizations for roughly two hours of volunteer work, then return to campus for a festival starting at 5:00 p.m. Carpenter described the…
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