Bonfire T-shirt exchange ends Friday

Ryan O'Malley, ReporterOctober 23, 2018Leave a Comment

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Homecoming week kicked off Oct. 21 with campus decoration. Starting Monday and running thru Friday the Office of Student Involvement is holding the annual bonfire and T-shirt exchange.

The bonfire T-shirt exchange is where students can go to Clark Student Center Room 194 and exchange a different university T-shirt for a free Midwestern State T-shirt. The T-shirt that is exchanged is used for the bonfire that is set to begin Oct. 26 in the Nocona Trail south parking lot at 9:15 p.m.

Athletic training freshman Seth Garcia said, “[The bonfire] sounds like a great time to really get our heads in the right mindset for the Tarleton game. I am always down for a bonfire, but for one to include burning Tarleton shirts too, sounds like the night the Mustangs can rally in this small pew-victory.”

According to Ruby Arriaga, coordinator of student activities, the bonfire T-shirt exchange has been going on during homecoming week for the past 10 years and this event is one of the biggest events during homecoming week.

“The T-shirt exchange is fun. The shirts students exchange will be used at the bonfire and the rest that are no used we donate to Goodwill,” Arriaga said. “[The number of shirts burned] depends on how many pallets and shirts we have. We usually burn the university shirts of the school we play against. We expect a big turn out this year with up to 500 [students] especially with the event being on a Friday. We also expect a lot of alumni this year.”

The bonfire T-shirt exchange is an activity to participate in during homecoming week. All students have to do is get a T-shirt and go exchange it for a free MSU shirt.

PARKING

Parking Lot 6, which is the large lot located just north of the practice fields and west of D.L. Ligon Coliseum, will be closed beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday, October 24. The lot will reopen on Saturday, October 27. Parking for those displaced by this closure is available in Lot 15, located southeast of the Redwine Student Wellness Center and north of Sikes Lake. MSU will operate a shuttle service that will run between Lot 15 and the Comanche Trail Loading zone, on the north side of the Clark Student Center.