By Jonathan Smith, Managing Editor

The Students’ Association will launch a campus improvements contest Friday with what it is calling the Big Stunt.

The Big Stunt, which will involve SA members dressing as Mr. Moneybags, the character from the board game Monopoly, is meant to create excitement about the contest. The contest will take ideas from students and student groups about possible improvement projects SA could initiate on campus.

The winner of the contests will receive $150, said Sen. Jake Roseberry, freshman management major from Troy, Ohio, and anyone or any group is eligible to submit as many ideas as they have. The deadline for submitting ideas is March 5.

Roseberry said SA’s research and development committee has set initial goals of having at least 10 student groups, six social clubs and any other student on campus not associated with an organization to submit ideas.

“The goal here is to get people excited about the campus,” Roseberry said. “The goal of our committee really is to not only help students see a direct connection between submitting an idea to SA and SA puts that into action, but also we’re hoping to get other good ideas that even if they’re not chosen as the winning one, we can maybe put into practice later on.”

Students submitting ideas must create a broken-down list of the costs, and each proposal submitted cannot cost more than $500. When making a presentation about the contest to Congress, Roseberry said the more detailed students can be with their project budgets the better.

Roseberry said SA officers got the idea for the contest after attending a conference at Freed-Hardeman University in November. Freed-Hardeman’s student congress sponsored a similar contest, and Roseberry said the results were so positive that they will be doing the contest again in the fall.