Howl for Haiti was to benefit the victims of the earthquake in Haiti,
and the NC State student body came together in a whole lot of different ways.
I was a part of it. I co-headed it, I guess, with a girl named Ericka Aiken, a woman named Ericka Aiken.
She and I were just facilitators for really the student body who had their own ideas and we just helped bring people together.
They did canned food drives, collecting fifteen thousand, if I remember correctly, pounds of consumable items,
and we raised eighty-five thousand dollars in actual hard money as well as having a food drive.
It was Stop Hunger Now, which is an organization headed by a guy named Ray [Buchanan], I can't remember his last name,
but they contacted NC State and kind of put the call to action out there,
would you be willing as a student body to come forward and head this amazing, huge undertaking fundraiser,
and of course student government jumped at that idea because we felt like we wanted to do something but we weren't sure how to bring the campus together.
Stop Hunger Now gave the effort some legitimacy and it also gave us a way to take the items somewhere.
hey gave us lots of ideas about how to have fundraisers, we did things at basketball games,
students used their own personal talents like guitar lessons, dance lessons, and charged a nominal fee,
ribbon making on the Brickyard, etcetera, and we did that for about a month to raise eighty-five thousand dollars.