Fraternity helps fund-raising efforts with 'Sleeps Out For the Homeless'

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. will co-sponsor, along with the Salvation Army, Sleep Out For the Homeless and Hungry at Unity Park.

The event will begin at 7 p.m. and will end at 7 a.m. on Friday.

Johnathan Martin, a junior speech communication major from Memphis and the fraternity's community service chair, said that the event will feature a guest speaker from the Salvation Army and that he expects a sizeable crowd

"We will have a guest speaker who will speak to students about how easy it can be to lose everything," Martin said. "We usually turn out around 30 or 40 people."

The guest speaker, Major Greenham, will speak at 7 p.m. Following his speech, there will be a cook-out in front of the flag poles and they will then "sleep out for the homeless and the hungry" in cardboard boxes that will simulate being homeless.

Martin also said that all of the proceeds from the event will go to the Salvation Army.

"We are taking canned goods, monetary donations and clothing," he said. "We have a table set up outside the Union where people can make monetary donations and there are bins set up in the residence halls where people can drop off items."

Sleep Out For the Homeless and Hungry is an annual event for the chapter and is part of their national community service.