No appointment is necessary to receive help from volunteer tax assistants, and clients are served on a first-come, first-served basis at the Saturday sessions.

Rippey and his wife have given generously to the College of Business, Knight Library, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Oregon Institute of Marine Biology.

The campaigns hope to use the power of crowdfunding to raise money for a variety of programs that serve students and the community.

Marketing professor Troy Campbell says both men are tapping into deeply held beliefs people were once afraid to voice.

Short for hack marathon, the hackathon is an intense weekend where student teams develop digital gaming prototypes.