FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, 304-696-7153
 

Homecoming car bash set for Friday at Buskirk Field

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – WMUL-FM, Marshall University’s public radio station, and the Student Activities Programming Board (SAPB) will be destroying a car from noon to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2 on Buskirk Field on Marshall’s Huntington campus as part of homecoming activities.

In the seventh installment of the event, a Lincoln Continental Mark V will be painted purple and yellow – the colors of East Carolina University, Marshall’s homecoming opponent – and then destroyed by Marshall students and community members.

SAPB will be providing inflatable games for a carnival in conjunction with the car bash.

WMUL will bring sledgehammers, gloves and goggles. Station Manager Adam Cavalier said the only thing participants need to bring is “anger, muscles and one dollar for the best therapy money can buy.”

“It’s getting close to midterms and students probably have a lot of stress,” Cavalier said.  “What better way is there to work that stress out than demolish a car that’s painted in dishonor of Marshall’s homecoming opponent?”

The dollar admission fee will get participants access to two car-bashing minutes with the Lincoln Continental and a pass to play on SAPB’s inflatable games.

For more information, contact Cavalier at cavalier@marshall.edu or at 304-696-2295.

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