Hundreds of MTSU students and numerous volunteers showed their True Blue Spirit on Saturday by participating in an emergency preparedness drill inside the Health, Wellness and Recreation Center.

Campus Recreation and Student Health Services staff, in conjunction with the American Red Cross, held the two-hour “Point of Dispensing” drill Saturday. The purpose of the exercise was to evaluate the campus’ ability to dispense medicine to students and staff in the event of an outbreak caused by some type of serious and/or deadly pathogen.

In order to conduct the drill, campus recreation and health services staff, under guidance from the state Department of Health, set up a mock medical dispensing location at which student volunteers could be registered, screened and processed in an orderly manner.

Ray Wiley, center, associate director of Campus Recreation, helps process hundreds of MTSU students who volunteered Saturday, Oct. 19, for an emergency preparedness drill inside the Health, Wellness and Recreation Center. Campus Recreation and Health Services staff set up a Point of Dispensing area to practice the process of dispensing medication in event of some sort of outbreak. (Photos by MTSU News and Media Relations)

Some MTSU students repeated the registration process during an emergency preparedness drill inside the Health, Wellness and Recreation Center on Saturday, Oct. 19.

Hundreds of MTSU students filled out mock registration forms Saturday, Oct. 19, during an emergency preparedness drill inside the Health, Wellness and Recreation Center.