The 1998 Homecoming Committee is having the KCCQ 105.1 FM morning show broadcast from the top of the Campanile this Thursday and Friday in order to help finish fund raising for the “blitz build” project with a mass collection.

Volunteers manning stations across campus will take donations to the project, which will go toward a Habitat for Humanity project: building a house in less than a week for a needy family in Roland.

Tonia Hesse, senior in dairy science and Homecoming ’98 co-chair, said the committee has raised almost enough money to fund this year’s service project but is still a bit short of the goal.

“We’re doing this mass fund-raiser to attempt to bring in the $6,000 that we still need,” Hesse said. “We need $55,000 total, and we hope to have met that by the end of the day on Thursday.”

In conjunction with the mass fund-raising effort, KCCQ’s Matt McNeil will be locked up in the Campanile on central campus during the two days of fund raising.

McNeil, the host of KCCQ’s morning show, will be broadcasting his show and live spots throughout the day from the top of the ISU landmark.

Dirk Glynn, senior in agricultural studies and Homecoming Community Service co-chair, said KCCQ has always been supportive of the Homecoming Community Service Committee.

“We’ve worked with KCCQ before, and they have just been great,” Glynn said. “We figure that having Matt up there will be a motivation to students to donate and maybe just attract a little attention to the fund-raising effort.”

Glynn said the donation tables will be located west of Curtiss Hall, west of Kildee Hall, south of Parks Library, at the information booth in the Memorial Union and under the Campanile.

“Our motto for the drive is, ‘Bring a buck, build a home,'” Glynn said. “We hope that students will be willing to donate to such a worthy cause.”

Hesse said the mass fund raising is also nice because it gives all ISU students an easy way to get involved in the blitz build.

McDonald’s will be matching all of the donated money, up to $3,000, which eases the strain on donors.

The actual build is scheduled for five days during Homecoming week, from Oct. 5 to Oct. 9.

Greek houses, ISU clubs and other organizations have volunteered blocks of time to help out with the building the house, which will be constructed on the intramural fields east of Jack Trice Stadium.

Glynn said construction manager Bob Behal will be in charge of coordinating the various efforts that will go into building the house on time.

Although past Homecoming community service projects have involved building houses through Habitat for Humanity, this is the first blitz build at Iowa State.

“It’s a tradition for ISU students to do community service at Homecoming,” Hesse said. “We have done stuff with Habitat for Humanity in the past, and this year we wanted to do something bigger. This project is very visible to the community.”

“The blitz build is a great opportunity for ISU students to show the community what we are doing,” Glynn said. “And it is outstanding publicity for the university.”