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USF Homecoming Week Begins With Nonperishable Art

USF students and homecoming teams create sculptures made out of canned goods at the 7th annual Charit-a-Bull.

Tribune photo by CLIFF McBRIDE

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By ADAM EMERSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 13, 2008

TAMPA - Homecoming week at the University of South Florida started today – as it usually does – with thousands of cans of food and some creativity.

Hundreds of students assembled at the Marshall Student Center with canned goods they spent the past few weeks collecting and broke. They formed teams to build sculptures with the cans.

Their creativity owed something to their success during the collection process: more cans, more options.

The designs ranged from a hungry monster to a skyscraper to the university's own logo.

The tradition, called Charit-a-Bull, started six years ago and has been getting bigger. Last year, students collected 12,000 pounds of food for the event, and organizers expect to nearly double that this year.

The teams donate the food to Metropolitan Ministries.

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