Yesterday, my colleagues and I set out to make the most of hte nice weather on campus by creating a "Census Party" at the very popular Allen Street gates. Not knowing what to expect, we piled up boxes of T-shirts and colorful hats that promoting participating in the census. The idea was to inform everyone who came on or off campus 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. about the importance of census participation. So, we did just that.
Around noon, foot traffic began to drastically increase and before we knew it, we had lines of people waiting to get free shirts and hats. But it wasn't just handing out free gifts. While students drooled over our ever so popular stuff, we made them pledge to fill out the census by initialing on a slip of paper. Eventually that slip of paper was linked with all of the other slips and before we knew it, we had more than 500 pledges to fill out the 2010 census form--all linked in a chain.
A sight for eyes? You bet it was.
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