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St. Baldrick’s Day

St. Baldrick’s Day

This past week, one of the fraternities at Loyola (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) put on their annual philanthropy event, “Paddy Murphy Week”.  The week includes events such as penny wars (a competition between sororities), powderpuff football, Paddy’s Widow Pageant (a talent show between girls in different sororities) and St. Baldrick’s Day.  Any proceeds made from these events all go towards St. Baldrick’s, an organization trying to find a cure for childhood cancer.

St. Baldrick’s Day seemed to be the main event of the week.  This was the day when tons of guys, and even a few girls, would shave their heads in honor of the boys and girls that have cancer.  The event was held in Rambler Room in CFSU, and there was a HUGE turnout! There were a ton of people from Greek Life, as well as many others from the student body, as both Greek students and Non-Greek students shaved their heads.

At the event, there was a stage where the head shaving was taking place.  There was also a guest speaker and singers, as well. My favorite part was watching the girls get their heads shaved.  It was really heartwarming to see how brave they were and how they were doing it for such a good cause.  It was also cool to see the girls with super long hair donate their hair, as well.

The whole week was very successful, and the amount raised was over 40,000 dollars!!! It was amazing to see how much money can be raised by students to such a fantastic cause. It was a great week!