The A-WEAR-Ness project helps re-purpose clothing items. The donations have been pouring in, so much that the university agreed to install two permanent donation boxes.

"It has been a very positive outcome to the program," says Dr. Tracy Gainer Vash, who spearheads the program with WVU's Fashion Design and Merchandising program. "It's the success of the program over the past 5 years, that's lent it to why we have a permanent bin here today. The increase in donations has just been phenomenal."

One is outside the Student Recreation Center, the other will go into the new Intermodal Facility, once it's completed. The program takes anything from sheets to belts and finds a way to reuse them and with the Clarksburg Mission, finds ways they can benefit the homeless.

Even the school's marching band is getting involved. Three hundred old uniform capes will now become part of a class, that allows students to learn first-hand how even unlikely items can find a new purpose, with a little work.

"It's really exciting just to see how you can take just a simple object like a t-shirt or anything and just, if its rags, instead of it going into landfills, you can just put it aside, put it into the recycling bin to where someone else can get use out of it, says Jamie Wheeler, who is now a teaching assistant with Dr. Varsh.

The capes will be transformed into a variety of items, so that students, alumni, and fans can have a piece of the pride, with very little going into a landfill. Dr. Varsh estimates the final products will be ready to hit the streets sometime in October.