Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Transy Gets Down with Philanthropies

Last semester was a big one for fundraising for our local philanthropies.  Along with my production of The Vagina Monologues, there were events that benefited Collin's Classic for Children with Cancer, God's Pantry, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, Reforest the Bluegrass, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, and many others.

Chi Omega's Campus Sing, on of the biggest events of the year, benefits God's Pantry by collecting cans and food items to donate which earns different organizations points to win the can collecting competition. Contrary to the name actually is more of a dance competition than a singing competition, the winners this year were the Independent Women and the brothers of Delta Sigma Phi.
The Indy Women rocking out.

The Sig's doing their thing

Delta Delta Delta's Water Wars benefits Collin's Classic is an aquatics competition with everything from raft relay races to belly flop contests.  The Delta's collect change and have a raffle to raise money.
Footage of the Belly Flop Contest

Phi Mu's Hoop-a-paluza benefits Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and is a free throw competition where the free-thrower gathers sponsors for each basket they make.  The event featured a game between the Female All-Star Basketball team and the Devastors, a F league fraternity basketball team. 

Delta Sigma Phi helps plant trees to Reforest the Bluegrass and Phi Kappa Tau competitively eat their way into donating money to the Hole in the Wall Gang.  The Whole Campus get involved on the Martin Luther King Day of Service and the men of the Kappa Alpha Order lead the men on campus in Walk a Mile in her Shoes.  The Brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha play in their Nintendothon to raise money and the sisters of Alpha Omicron Pi Bowl for Kid's Sake. 
KA's strut their stuff in heels

There's never a shortage of service opportunities, in fact we have a whole office, The Office of Community Service and Civic Engagement, dedicated to helping students find ways to serve the community. 

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