The Big Event Saturday at Cal U.
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The Student Government Association and AmeriCorps students from the Center for Civic Engagement will take the lead when The Big Event starts at 9 a.m. Saturday.
A student-run service project, The Big Event began at Texas A&M University in 1982, when student leaders saw a need to give back to the community that had long supported their university.
Since then, The Big Event has become the largest one-day, student-run service project in the nation. Typically, students complete chores for community members, such as yard work, window-washing and painting.
Cal U. held its first event in 2007.
Working from a list created over the past several years, students have distributed forms and made phone calls to identify community residents who can use a hand. Katie McAndrew, vice president of Student Government, said more than 350 Cal U. students have registered to work at one of 20 job sites.