Various organizations and societies at Saint Mary’s College have been selling merchandise for students to purchase, including the Student Nurses Association (SNA), the Residence Hall Association (RHA) and Asian-American Pacific Islander Club (AAPI Club). These organizations have designed their own unique merch to help fund initiatives, programming and materials.
SNA
SNA has released schoolwide sweatpants and hoodies until Friday. They look forward to creating more “educational and social opportunities” within the club for students to have a diverse range of experiences within healthcare, according to an email from the club.
As their first merch release of the year, they wanted to create, “fun merch for the students of Saint Mary's College and raise money for our club,” SNA said in their email. The front of the sweatshirt reads “Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana,” in blue and white lettering, with the front of the sweatpants reading “SMC” on top of a white French cross.
SNA is also hosting a food drive until Wednesday with Goshen College and Bethel University where students have the opportunity to donate to the local community.
“We have a food drive in collaboration with Goshen College and Bethel University that ends on Nov. 27. Students can bring any canned and/or non-perishable food items they have and place them in the designated box near the nursing front desk in Regina Hall. These donations will go straight to the South Bend community,” the email stated.
RHA
RHA will be selling hoodies and sweatpants from Nov. 14 to Dec. 2 at 9 a.m. in order to “help raise funds for hall improvements for future all school events,” as mentioned on CORQ and BelleTower. The front of the sweatshirt includes Saint Mary’s longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates, with the back portion displaying the RHA logo.
Junior Kate Hayes, the fundraising chair of RHA, explained the inspiration behind the design.
“When I first began thinking of what to include in this merch sale, I was trying to think of unique ways to represent Saint Mary's. Therefore, I thought of the longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates as that unique way. Additionally, if someone were to ask you what those coordinates stand for, you can respond saying that it represents the place nearest and dearest to you, Saint Mary's College,” Hayes said.
AAPI
As a brand new club on campus, the AAPI club also wanted to represent the College through their crewnecks. Junior Avery Lazaro, president of the AAPI club, described what made them choose to embroider LeMans Hall on their apparel.
“We decided to sell Saint Mary’s merch in order to appeal to the majority, not just the students involved with the club. In doing so, we would be able to get a larger audience to purchase the crewnecks we are selling. We got the inspiration for our design from TikTok," Lazaro said. "We saw that other schools had one of their iconic buildings embroidered on a crew neck along with the name of their school and thought the idea was super cute. We decided to make one for Saint Mary’s."
The club aims to promote AAPI culture on campus through a variety of social and educational events they will be hosting in the future, and they plan to provide more merchandise later on to make this possible. Though purchasing has closed, they are still welcoming donations to help achieve this agenda as well.
The organizations above have their merchandise available online through BelleTower, CORQ and their social media pages.
