Eastern students are going to play bingo at assisted living homes on Saturday.

Students will be going to three assisted living homes on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. During the visits, students will play bingo at two of the locations and serve tea at the third location.

“Even though this doesn’t fit under my part of the constitution, I feel like it’s something else that I’m doing for the students,” said Rich Higginbotham, student vice president for Student Affairs. “Student government’s slogan is service leadership and integrity and I want to bring the service part to student government.”

Higginbotham is chairman of the One Campus-One Community committee.

The event qualifies towards required community services hours for Greek chapters, said

Jeff Traub, committee member.

“Right at first, they’re probably doing it just to get their hours, but once they get out there and interact with members of the community I think they’ll really see the good that they’re doing,” Traub said.

Traub has asked chapter leaders to send three or four representative and he hopes to get around 50 students from greek life to participate in the event.

As of Jan. 23, Delta Tau Delta has more community service hours accumulated than any other fraternity or sorority, Traub said. He said each organization needs to accumulate at least 400 hours per academic year and Delta Tau Delta has 574 hours after just one semester. They accumulated 1,074 hours last academic year.

Pi Kappa Alpha has the fewest amount of community service hours with 100. They accumulated 278 total hours last academic year.

Higginbotham said he plans to get between 50 and 75 students for the event.

Three other Once Campus-One Community events were conducted last semester and two more events will follow Saturday’s event. Higginbotham expected 200 students to show up for the cleanup day last semester, but 235 students participated.

The other past events were a food drive and a toy drive in which Higginbotham said committee members collected items students donated.

Students interested in volunteering for Saturday’s event can still call the student government at 581-5522.

Rick Kambic can be reached at 581-7945 or rwkambic@eiu.edu.