Fans wearing 1960s style red and white tie-dyed shirts may soon fill the RBC Center for basketball games.

When Student Government bore the task of fund-raising for the WolfPack Student Initiative scholarship fund, Cody Williams, a senior in agricultural business management, opted to sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

“So far I’ve ordered a little over 200,” Williams, the executive chief of staff for the student body president, said. “The hope is to sell all these and order a lot more. I’d like the see the entire RBC Center covered in tie-dye — behind the goal … when people are shooting free throws, you get more of an effect when a bunch of people are jumping around in tie-dye instead of just a bunch of red shirts.”

Will Quick, student body president and a senior in biomedical engineering, said he is confident that the T-shirt sales will be successful.

“I think they’ll catch on,” he said.

Williams said the idea sprouted from similar fund-raisers at other Universities.

“I had seen it at a bunch of other schools and I decided to give it a shot and see how it did,” he said.

The shirts will be on sale for $10 at the Dec. 20 game against Alabama, the Jan. 9 game against Clemson and the Jan. 20 game against Duke in the concourse of the RBC Center.

Williams added that shirts may be purchased in the Student Government office as well as during women’s basketball games in Reynolds Coliseum.

According to Krista Ringler, associate director for scholarships and financial aid, the WSI scholarship is in its sixth year of existence.

Ringler said student government helped create the scholarship fund.

“They were instrumental in the establishment of this award,” Ringler said. “A memorandum of understanding is developed when a scholarship is endowed,” Ringler said.

Ringler noted that no part of the memorandum gave student government a role in the selection of recipients.

According to Quick, student government never wanted that role, feeling they had no right to help select scholarship recipients.

Ringler said recipients are chosen based on financial need, academic merit and class rank. “The amount [of the scholarship] will vary over time. This past year the amount was at $1,000,” she said.

Ringler said the N.C. State Foundation holds the endowment for the scholarship.

“Each year our foundation accountant gives us information for how much of the investment is able to be invested each year [in the scholarship],” she said.

According to Travis Rankin, a sophomore in textile and apparel management and director of WSI, the T-shirt sale is not the only fund-raiser in the works.

The first of many fund-raisers throughout the spring semester is a poker tournament during the last week of January.

In February, students can purchase candygrams. WSI will send e-mail notifications to candygram recipients prompting them to go receive their messages in the Brickyard. For an additional charge, WSI will hand deliver the candygrams.

March is “business marathon month” in which WSI hopes to have 100 businesses donate $50 each.

Rankin also said WSI will host a social in May.

“May’s gonna be our big thing,” Rankin said.

In time, Ringler said the the foundation hopes to award more scholarships each year.

“As the amount that’s available grows we will cover as many students as we can,” she said.

News Editor Laura White contributed to this story.