Members of the Union family came out in force this spring and raised a significant sum – more than $70,000 – that will help everything from health care organizations to earthquake victims. Here’s a sampling of those charitable efforts:
- Relay for Life: nearly $34,000 to benefit the American Cancer Society
- Women’s ice hockey team Pink at the Rink event: $11,800 for the American Cancer Society (the league-wide ECAC effort raised $40,000)
- Sigma Delta Tau sorority gala: $8,000 for Prevent Child Abuse New York
- Las Hermanas of Tau Chapter of Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi sorority’s third annual Domestic Violence and Rape Awareness Banquet, “Out of the Silence, Finding Our Voices”: $4,000 to benefit the National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault, A Long Walk Home, Inc. and the YWCA of Schenectady
- Asian Student Union faculty fundraiser for earthquake relief in the Sichuan Province of China: More than $2,500
- Sigma Chi fraternity’s annual Derby Days: $1,525 to support The Elephant in the Living Room, a domestic violence prevention organization
- Tri Delta sorority’s annual pancake breakfast and a clothing sale co-hosted with Golub House: $800 for St. Jude’s Hospital
- Catwalk for a Cause fashion show: More than $500 for Student Advocacy for Equitable Recovery (SAFER), Tulane student recovery project
- Run, Ribs and Reggae, organized by the Student Athlete Advisory Committee: $600 for the Ronald McDonald House
- Phi Delta Theta fraternity’s Car Bash: $350 for the ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) Association
- Alpha Delta Phi fraternity’s pizza and grill sales: $100 to help sponsor a youth in Uganda
- Alpha Epsilon Pi, Wold House and Green House barbecue and movie screening of “Wet Hot American Summer”: $100 to the Red Cross to help earthquake victims in China.