Warming up -- Sustainability Office interns Jonathan Mills, a graduate student in art, and Sarah Smelko, a senior global studies major, show off some of the free winter clothing offered in Hewitt Hall during the week-long free winter Warm-up Week clothing and gear giveaway, a collaboration between the Office of Sustainability and SHOP (Students Helping Oz Peers).
Warm-up Week offers free outerwear to campus community
Free coats, boots, hats, mittens and scarves are available to those in need through Warm-Up Week, a special partnership between the Sustainability Office and the Students Helping Oz Peers (SHOP) on-campus pantry.
The campus community is welcome to stop by Hewitt weekdays between 9 am to 5 p.m., through Friday, Feb. 26, and take whatever clothing they need.
“You can just come right through and browse and take what you want,” said Sarah Smelko, a Sustainability Office intern and senior global studies major. "Everything is free."
Most items were donated by the campus community, while some are hand-made.
Smelko added that the drive supports sustainability in showing that clothes are re-usable and can also be donated to find new use with others instead of being viewed as disposable with changing fashion. Generosity, organizers noted, is always in fashion.
-- Written by Brianna Linn, Class of 2021
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