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News: Spring Fling is ‘time to celebrate’

Jessica Livengood admires her tie-dyed T-shirt during the Spring Fling event on the Oak Ridge campus of Roane State Community College.

April 25, 2017

By Bob Fowler
Staff Writer

These are times to “celebrate the students.”

So says Corey Reed, coordinator of student engagement, about two longstanding traditions at Roane State Community College.

They’re the Fall Fest and the Spring Fling, and the latter event is now in full swing.

Each year, the college sponsors the two activities to give students a break from academics and have some fun, Reed said. The Fall Fest is usually in October, while the Spring Fling is in April.

Students on Monday, April 24, on the Oak Ridge campus munched on free snacks and gathered around tables protected with drop sheets adorned with a rainbow of dye blotches.

Clustered in one corner of the Coffey-McNally Building’s atrium, they were converting their free white T-shirts into colorful tie-dyed works of art.

Haley Davis, left, of Knoxville and Maggie Pierce of Lenoir City hold up their bagged tie-dyed T-shirts, placed in baggies to allow the dyes to settle in, during the Spring Fling event Monday, April 24, on the Oak Ridge campus.

“I don’t know how it will turn out,” Haley Davis of Knoxville admitted after placing her dyed T-shirt, tightly bundled up by rubber bands, into a plastic baggie to allow the dyes to settle in. “I just threw the colors in there,” she said.

Brooke Kelley of Oliver Springs said her T-shirt – the different colored dyes separated by rubber bands - will have a “swirl design – hopefully.”

Reed, a 2013 Roane State grad, took on the student engagement tasks after his predecessor, Sarah Hooper, became a Roane State success coach. Hooper is still helping him when she has time, Reed said.

His plate now full with end-of-school-year events, Reed said he hasn’t figured out what the lineup will be for Fall Fest.

 

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