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Tarleton State University will be
continuing Round Up on Saturday, March
30 after 20 successful years. Round Up
is a day that offers students, faculty
and staff the opportunity to go into the
Stephenville community and help those
who cannot do tasks that may seem easy
to us but can be difficult for them. Round
Up is student lead, the students on the
leadership team are very passionate
about giving back to the community. The
students get grouped into teams and go
to homes of the elderly, at need and even
average families who need help with
tasks around their home or property.
Students can do tasks like raking,
painting, cleaning out gutters, planting
flower beds and many more.
The process to apply for a home to
become a job site was intentionally made
easy to help the community. One way
to apply is an ad in the “Stephenville
Empire-Tribune” a week throughout
February and that can be filled out and
mailed. The other way is to go online to
tarleton.edu/roundup and there will be
a link to an online form to fill out. Once
the applications get received, members
of the leadership team will go out and
evaluate the sites to make sure it is safe
for students and to see what is needed to
be done. Volunteers can apply through
the same link, tarleton.edu/roundup.
However, if there was to be a group of
students, 10 and more, Erin Warner,
Community Service & Food Pantry
Coordinator, recommends typing out
everyone’s name on an excel sheet and
email that to tarletonroundup@gmail.
com. For both applications the deadline is
Wednesday, February 20.
On average, they have 120 to 170 job
sites for students to help at. Warner
has constantly had around 1600 to
1800 volunteers, but she would like to
reach 2000 to 2500 students. If there are
not enough volunteers, Warner has to
deny job sites, which does not happen
often. The leadership team breaks
groups into about 10 to 12 students;
however, depending on what the job site
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Blake Thompson and Dalton Divorak help out during Round Up 2018 along with their fellow Sigma Chi brothers. The JTAC Francisco Castro
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elderly woman who may have lost her
husband and can’t get out to plant her
spring flowers or even someone who may
have an illness and hasn’t been able to
get out and clean their front lawn.
“Having an opportunity to make that
impact on someone,” Warner. “You should
just say yes.”
Be a part of a big tradition, there is
food and music, even alumni come out
and help because they remember doing it.
“The community really depends on it,
it’s just a chance and opportunity to be a
part of something bigger than yourself,”
Warner said. “I just really want to share
that message of encouragement.”
Sign up by yourself or gather
your friends and sign up to help the
community at tarleton.edu/roundup.
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media. Warner believes the best way to
reach the students have been through
social media and going to the meetings
because they are able to talk and ask
questions and get more information.
For any student who has been thinking
about signing up and volunteering,
Warner encourages you to sign up this
year.
“There are a lot of friendships made,”
Warner said. “This is one of the most
transformative experiences that the
university offers.”
Do not be afraid to come alone, because
you will always be being working with
someone and it gives you a chance
to make new friends. Grab a friend or
neighbor and sign up, it is only a few
hours on a Saturday morning.
“Being able to give back to someone
who needs it, in Stephenville, that you
can drive past their house and see that
you were able to help them,” Warner said.
Even you think, “oh they won’t need
me”, but working through that day you
will see that the community does need
any help that they can get. Everyone
is going through something and could
always need help, it could be a single
mom who can’t get out and mow, or an
students or even 15. She hopes to gain
more student volunteers so more of the
Stephenville community can be reached
and helped.
The Greek students at Tarleton also
help during Round Up. Alpha Omicron
Pi Sorority member Sydney Patty has
participated in Round Up for two years
now.
“Our members get together as a group
and then split up into different teams so
we can reach more of the Stephenville
community,” Patty said. “We do various
tasks while at these homes, ranging from
painting, raking yards, planting flowers,
cutting bushes and many other things.”
Cody Worth, a junior in Lambda Chi
Alpha enjoys working with his fraternity
and giving back to the community and
people. Worth has participated in two
Round Ups and this year he plans on
doing it again.
“We try to get everyone involved and
we are more than happy to do whatever
the university throws our way,” Worth
said.
The Round Up board advertises the
event through banners on campus,
they can show up in your organization
meeting, flyers, table events and social
Tarleton is gearing up for Round Up
Brittainie Cason
Contributor
sw_cason@tarleton.edu
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