Participants range from social to service organizations. Once a street has been adopted, the organizations receive bags from the Chamber of Commerce and clean the streets at least twice a semester. After the organization is done cleaning, the members can leave the bags along the street and the city of Kirksville will pick up the trash. Sigma Sigma Sigma national social sorority adopted West Michigan Street, which runs west of campus, last fall. Once an organization adopts a street, it will potentially take care of the street forever.
Organizations plan on continuing with the program.
Most organizations have taken the main streets near campus. The program has been so popular that only nine streets are still available to be adopted. Archeological dig to include students Cassandra Lindsay Staff Reporter Rami Arev, chief archaeologist of the Bethsaida excavation in Israel, recruits students to help with the dig. A real life Indiana Jones came to Truman to recruit students to help him rediscover the lost city of Bethsaida. Rami Arav, the chief archaeologist of the Bethsaida excavation in Isreal, gave a presentation on the dig Oct. 17.