The GSU chapter helps with fund-raisers and volunteer support. This is held during the week before homecoming where organizations around campus sponsor a jar for loose change that people drop in them, Focht said. We should get a lot this year. The chapter is planning is a spring break trip to help build a house. This trip, called the Challenge project, is a nationwide program that all chapters are involved in.
Students spend a week on location building a house.
N.C. Focht isn't sure if the chapter will have another big fund-raiser like this one. But after hearing student criticisms of adding an interview and essay portion to the criteria for naming a queen, the committee threw out their changes so the queen and king will be elected strictly by popular vote. The committee said they decided to revert to the old system because their new qualifications were not liked by a large number of students on campus who felt the rules were changed because the past three homecoming queens at GSU have been black. Committee member Erin Leavey said the committee wants to have a homecoming where everybody could get along, and that would not happen if the new selection criteria were used. The students should have the vote all to themselves.