Stuart Gay, Delta Sigma Phi philanthropy chair and a senior in finance, said he expects a high turn out for this year’s annual Jimmy V Cancer Foundation Volleyball Tournament. “It should be a good tournament,” Gay said. “I think we have everything planned out as well as we could and the weather is supposed to be good. I guess the big thing is getting people to sign up, which is tough.”Gay said working with Pi Kappa Alpha has been a surprisingly good experience.”Most times you think that people try to separate themselves in the fraternities, and once a year we get together to join our resources in order to give back to someone who gave so much to us,” Gay said. “Everyone always gets so anti-fraternity, but we’re no different than anyone else. We are just normal students who like to give back to the community, and this is our way to show it.”Gay said he was surprised how similar his brothers are to the members of Pi Kappa Alpha. He said the experience has helped break many of the stereotypes previously held by the brothers.”Well, they’re actually really cool to work with,” Gay said. “There is always so much competition between fraternities; and sitting down, working with them on this project, seeing that they’re people just like we are, has been a great experience. Going out seeing them at bars, hanging out with PiKA’s is something I never thought I would do in my life; it’s like stepping out into a new world.”Tucker Harris, Pi Kappa Alpha’s philanthropy chair, said the partnership is recent.”This is the third year I’ve done it,” Harris said. “It was just PiKA’s philanthropy, but when our old house was torn down — and our volleyball court was torn down — we had to find someone else to help us with it who had a court.”Harris said the relationship between the two fraternities has improved through the partnership. He said he has played a major role in organizing the event.”It has been good,” Harris said. “I’ve been working with Stuart for the most part. Stuart, Matt Tucker and myself have mainly done everything to organize it.”Preparation for the tournament has been long, Gay said.”We have been working on it all semester long,” Gay said. “We have had meetings every week and gotten together with businesses for support. We have been trying to raise money and getting students involved.”Gay said there will be activities for everyone who attends.”Basically, for the athletic people, we’re going to be having a volleyball tournament,” Gay said. “All-day long is the volleyball tournament, and we’re going to have three bands including Simplified, who has opened up for OAR. We are working on getting inflatables. Last year we had slip and slide, which was a huge hit, jousting and an obstacle course.”Will Loveless, a sophomore in accounting and treasurer of Delta Sigma Phi, said he looks forward to the opportunity to enjoy himself while benefiting the cause.”We are going to have a band, food and inflatables out here all day so everyone should come out and have a good time, supporting a good cause,” Loveless said.The structure of the event will be greater than ever, Harris said.”We’re going to have slip and slides and moonbounces and gambling, it’s basically going to look like carnival,” Harris said. “We have a big band, Simplified, coming out. The company who is doing the sound is bringing out enough sound to compare to Walnut Amphitheater. We are going to have a DJ and another small local band.”Gay said there will be a variety of sponsors attending the event.”Our sponsors include Southern Tide, Gumby’s, Red Bull, Vitamin Water and F&M entertainment,” Gay said. “A lot of the sponsors are continuing their support from last year, but we’ve also reached out to a lot of local businesses. We tried to pick out sponsors of products that students actually use.”Harris said both fraternities are trying to maximize safety.”As far as security goes, all we’re trying to do is keep people from drinking and driving,” Harris said. We’re going to have people standing at the gate making sure people who have been drinking don’t drive home — and if they have — we have a bus running back to campus. We are picking people up on Fraternity Court and Dan Allen and taking them to the house, then running back to Fraternity Court and Dan Allen throughout the whole day.The main reason for that is so that people can drink and not have to drive.Jennings Rose, a sophomore in accounting and a brother of Delta Sigma Phi, said he hopes there will be a large turnout.”We encourage N.C. State students to come out and show support for a common cause in a fun environment,” Rose said.