The Auburn Public Relations Student Society of America will transform part of Haley concourse into a landfill Friday in an effort to promote environmental awareness on campus.
"We're going to use a tarp to make sure we don't actually litter," said Shanetta Pendleton, junior in public relations and member of PRSSA. "Then we're going to put stuff on it, like trash--stuff that people could have easily put somewhere to be renewed, but didn't."
The PRSSA is a nationally recognized organization that gives students experience with work in the field of public relations.
"Experience is one of the biggest things that people have told us that you need to have, so that way we do things like this," said Maggie Daley, senior in public relations and president of Auburn PRSSA.
The Auburn PRSSA recently entered a competition along with 19 other universities around the nation in connection with Solo Cup Company.
The theme of the competition is titled "Go Bare on Campus."
According to Pendleton, the goal of the competition is to advocate environmental awareness on campus while campaigning for Solo's new line of environmentally friendly products.
The mock landfill, which will be on the Haley concourse 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, is just one part of Auburn PRSSA's participation in the competition.
"The concourse is only a one-day thing, but the whole 'Go Bare on Campus' will be also doing other events to try to promote it also, up until November the 29," Pendleton said.
The PRSSA will be involved in events such as the Communication and Journalism Department's tailgate on Saturday, where it will make sure items used at the tailgate are recycled.
The 20 competing universities have created Facebook pages for their campaigns where people can vote for their favorite school's campaign.
After Nov. 29, participating universities will be judged according to the number of votes received on Facebook.
"After Nov. 29, depending on how many votes we have on Facebook, our PRSSA chapter can either win first place, which is $1000, or second and third place, which is $500," Pendleton said.
Daley said Auburn PRSSA hopes to win one of the prizes because the group was just founded in the past year.
"With PR, you need a lot of resources that you just can't get if you don't have any money," Daley said.
To vote for the Auburn PRSSA chapter, visit facebook.com/solocup.
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