Bundled in sweatshirts and coats, USI students warmed their hands by building awareness of homelessness at the Boxville event Monday night.

Throughout the night, the question “Where’s the duct tape?” echoed on the basketball court behind the Community Center (C-Store).

Senior theatre and public relations major Hillory Springer joined her fellow Alpha Sigma Tau sisters in building a boat made of cardboard boxes.

The Alpha Sigma Tau women decided to build a boat because one of the sorority’s national symbols is an anchor, she said.

Fellow Alpha Sigma Tau sister Kaitie Webster organized Boxville, and the women in the sorority decided to support their sister, Springer said.

“It’s a great way to get educated,” she said.

Senior nursing major and Resident Assistant Shelby Wright recruited men from her floor to participate in building a “wigloo” for Boxville.

“I knew it would be a good opportunity for my residents to be engaged in something and have fun,” she said.

The group originally planned to make a box igloo, but the finish product looked more like a combination of a wigwam and igloo – “a wigloo,” said Jeremey Seibert, freshman biophysics major.

“(Wright) told (my roommates and I) about Boxville, and it sounded fun,” he said while making an “x” across cardboard pieces. “I didn’t realize how many homeless people there were .”

In the Evansville area, at least 450 individuals are without places to live, according to destination-home.info.

Seibert said he would like to work with a homeless shelter this summer.

Sophomore English major Aereron Norman helped build the single gingerbread house for the African Student Union and Hispanic Student Union.

“I wanted to come out and help raise awareness for the people in Evansville and around the world,” she said.