2008 Woodie Awards
Students to join together for 'Pink Out'
Zach Smart
Issue date: 2/20/08 Section: Features
Adversity. Most of us have handled or been dealt our fair share of it.
It's about as unpredictable an aspect of life there is, one that simply nobody can eschew. No one gets through life unscathed.
Quinnipiac has constantly taken significant steps towards fighting breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths in America.
According to the National Cancer Institute, roughly 178,480 and 2,030 cases of breast cancer surfaced last year between women and men, respectively.
QU programs and fundraisers have been launched, money has been donated and research programs have received considerable contributions. Fraternities, clubs and recently-installed programs alike have done their part in helping fight and raise awareness to breast cancer.
On Feb. 22, however, thanks to the efforts of Quinnipiac junior Jackie Herb, an event that may be head-and-shoulders above others of its kind will be installed. It is promising on more fronts than one.
Herb and senior Roger Fish, the president and co-president of S.A.A.C. (Student Athletic Advisory Committee), respectively, will host the inaugural "Pink Out."
The event is designed to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The "For The Cure" foundation maintains a high-order commitment to "curing breast cancer at every stage-from the causes to the cures, to the pain and anxiety of every moment in between," according to the program's website.
Shirts with "Pink Out" emblazed on the front, accompanied by the breast cancer awareness ribbon will be sold for $10 each, prior to the men's hockey team's 7 p.m. showdown against Cornell at the TD Banknorth Sports Center.
It's an event that Herb and Fish, members of the women's tennis team and men's lacrosse team, respectively, are certainly giddy about.
"Obviously, if we can get everybody (who attends) to buy one, that's a good amount of money that we can donate," Fish, a native of Columbus, Ohio said.
It's about as unpredictable an aspect of life there is, one that simply nobody can eschew. No one gets through life unscathed.
Quinnipiac has constantly taken significant steps towards fighting breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths in America.
According to the National Cancer Institute, roughly 178,480 and 2,030 cases of breast cancer surfaced last year between women and men, respectively.
QU programs and fundraisers have been launched, money has been donated and research programs have received considerable contributions. Fraternities, clubs and recently-installed programs alike have done their part in helping fight and raise awareness to breast cancer.
On Feb. 22, however, thanks to the efforts of Quinnipiac junior Jackie Herb, an event that may be head-and-shoulders above others of its kind will be installed. It is promising on more fronts than one.
Herb and senior Roger Fish, the president and co-president of S.A.A.C. (Student Athletic Advisory Committee), respectively, will host the inaugural "Pink Out."
The event is designed to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The "For The Cure" foundation maintains a high-order commitment to "curing breast cancer at every stage-from the causes to the cures, to the pain and anxiety of every moment in between," according to the program's website.
Shirts with "Pink Out" emblazed on the front, accompanied by the breast cancer awareness ribbon will be sold for $10 each, prior to the men's hockey team's 7 p.m. showdown against Cornell at the TD Banknorth Sports Center.
It's an event that Herb and Fish, members of the women's tennis team and men's lacrosse team, respectively, are certainly giddy about.
"Obviously, if we can get everybody (who attends) to buy one, that's a good amount of money that we can donate," Fish, a native of Columbus, Ohio said.
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