For release: Aug. 29, 2012
News and Media Relations contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu
New Student and Family Programs contact: Gina Poff, 615-898-2454 or Gina.Poff@mtsu.edu
MURFREESBORO — It’s a quick sample of and introduction to Murfreesboro.
Several thousand MTSU students — many of them freshmen —
received a taste of the city Aug. 28-29 during Meet Murfreesboro as part of
Week of Welcome activities. New Student and Family Programs sponsors the event,
which features more than 50 businesses.
Local businesses, restaurants, doctors’ offices, banks and
credit unions, churches, nonprofit agencies, apartment complexes and others
staff tables under two tents in the Keathley University Center Courtyard. They
shared information — and sometimes food and other goodies — about the services
they offer in the Murfreesboro area to the more than 26,000 MTSU students.
Freshmen Chelsea Ross of Murfreesboro and Rachel Shaughnessy
of Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., members of the Lady Raiders’ volleyball team and
roommates, were among those taking in the event.
“I like it. You get to see everything,” said Ross, who
discovered new things although Murfreesboro is her hometown. “I live on the
other side of town. There are still businesses I haven’t seen here, and a lot
of restaurants, too.”
“It’s the free stuff and getting coupons” that Shaughnessy
liked. “I’ll probably go there (to the establishment),” she said. “The (Aspen
Leaf) yogurt was really good.”
Senior Adam Yarber has spent the last three years attending
Meet Murfreesboro, both as a student and an employee of The Woods at Greenland
and Raiders Crossing apartment complexes.
“This is great,” Yarber said. “It gives students the opportunity
to see what Murfreesboro has to offer, from food to vendors, churches and
organizations around town. They will see Murfreesboro is not boring. There are
a lot of places to eat and get involved and volunteer.”
Liz Waller, a marketing representative for the first-year
Sam’s Sports Grill at the Stones River Mall, said student walk-up to their
booth for a sample of nachos and cheese was “amazing.”
“We want to come and touch every one of these students and
let them know they can come to Sam’s and have a great meal,” Waller said.
The Meet Murfreesboro experience was nice, said freshman
Timesha Cash of Memphis, who said she is trying to decide between nursing and
biology as a major.
“People seem nice and welcoming,” Cash said. After buying a shirt, she said she was “impressed by the free giveaways and getting to meet different people.”
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Meet Murfreesboro
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MTSU students
discover what Murfreesboro has to offer under two tents during the annual New
Student and Family Program’s Meet Murfreesboro event. (Photo by News and Media
Relations)
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MTSU students
complete a survey offered at the Solavei cell-phone booth Aug. 28 during the
Meet Murfreesboro event. (Photo by News and Media Relations)
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Melissa Haynes, left,
co-owner of the Pita Pit, shows MTSU student Erica Dodson the restaurant’s menu
at Meet Murfreesboro on Aug. 28. (Photo by News and Media Relations)
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