Some SIU students gave a helping hand to a local charity last weekend and at the same time increased their Compact Disc collections.

The Schneider Hall Council, a group of student leaders from a campus dorm, are giving money collected from a used CD sale last Saturday to a Carbondale charity.

Resident Assistant Bruno Schmidt said he suggested the idea to the council because of his experience with a similar sale at Steagall Hall, a smaller dorm last year. He said the program was successful with the smaller dorm, so he wanted to try at a larger residence hall.

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We (Steagall Hall) tried it with a 100 people, so I wanted to try with 800, and try to sell more, Schmidt said,

Council President Mark Sutter said the purpose for the collection is to show Carbondale that SIUC students care about their community. Carbondale has a bad image of SIUC students, he said. We want to show that Schneider Hall cares and wants to give something back to the community, he said.

We want to put Schneider Hall on the map.

The council is looking to give the money to a local charity, but finding one is not as easy as the group thought, Sutter said.

We are still deciding on a charity, but we are interested in one that supports children, Sutter said.

The CD’s were sold at $5 a piece with $4 going to the contributor of the CD and $1 to the charity fund. Checking and logging over 400 CD’s took a lot of work, head resident Jeff Brown said. But when we opened around 2 p.m. there was already an influx of 30 or 40 people.

We essentially achieved two programs in one a social program for the students and a civic program which will be an outreach into the community, Brown said.

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Sutter said the sale was a success. The council collected $150 from selling 149 CD’s. We expected only $60 or $70 dollars going to charity, he said.

Because of the program’s success, Sutter said Schneider Hall will collect CD’s again next semester, and might open the sale to the whole campus.