PSP music fundraiser donates $500
Shortly after Hurricane Harvey, a fundraiser was held where students were prompted to donate a dollar to charity in exchange for a song request to be played over the school intercoms during passing periods. The requested music never ended up playing.
“The fundraiser was from Public Service Practicum; one of the class teams wanted to something for hurricane relief and another team wanted to do something with hallway music, so we combined the two,” said social studies department chair Chris Kubic. “Through both donations outside the cafeteria and at football games, we raised about $500.”
Public Service Practicum handles some of the school fundraisers which are found outside the cafeteria and at various events. Despite the requested music never playing during passing periods, all of the money was still donated.
“The music incentive turned out to be difficult because much of the music people requested was not appropriate, and much of the seemingly appropriate music contained inappropriate innuendos,” Kubic said. “I wish we could have communicated that to the students who donated so they didn’t feel swindled, but ultimately the money still went to a good cause.”
As the majority of requested music contained inappropriate language and innuendos, the class was not able to play much of the requested songs. In addition, many were not available to be obtained legally, preventing the team from lawful acquisition of requested songs.
“I was personally telling people that the requested songs were going to be played in the hallway, so we’re not going to play any inappropriate music,” PSP student Kyle Peterson said. “It was kind of expected. I just thought that people were going to think before they requested any Lil Peep or whatever.”
The donation incentive ran during the month of September. Students were able to donate $1 by a booth outside the cafeteria in order to request a song of their choice to be played over the intercoms during passing periods.
“I got the idea from this thing in Evanston where they played the same song for a week straight and told students that they would change the song if they donated a certain amount of money. One thousand dollars got raised in like two days,” Peterson said.
