UF's Get Carded campaign aims to give students a chance to be heroes when they get their Gator 1 Cards at Preview.
Soon, UF students, faculty and staff may be able to register as organ and tissue donors during Gator 1 registration.
Get Carded with Gator 1 is a project of Get Carded, a student-run public relations campaign founded in 2002 that raises organ and tissue donation awareness.
"We're not begging people to sign up to donate organs," said Ronia Silmi, treasurer of Get Carded. "We want to inform people and raise awareness about this issue. People signing up is a bonus."
The Get Carded with Gator 1 campaign is still in the planning stages.
To get it off the ground, members will begin a petition asking for student support.
Eventually, they want to show a film about the benefits of becoming an organ donor at Preview.
Marigold Mikulski, a nursing sophomore, said she signed up to be an organ donor at 16, when she got her driver's license.
"I think it's a good idea because teenagers don't think about the issue fully at the DMV," Mikulski said. "But later in college, they have thought about the issue more and it's an easy way to sign up."
