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Friday,
September 21, 2001
Campus
organizations contribute to relief
By Sam Eaton
Staff Reporter
Several
TCU student organizations are helping in the relief effort
for victims of last week’s terrorist attacks by raising
money and collecting stuffed teddy bears for victims’
families.
The
Residence Hall Association will host the TCUnity Fair as a
fund raiser for the relief effort.
Matt
Shonka, vice president of RHA, said the association is planning
an activities fair within the next two weeks that will include
a cook-out, tossing pies at professors and a raffle. Chancellor
Ferrari has donated his parking space for a day as first prize
in the raffle.
Shonka
said all proceeds will go to the relief effort.
The
Sigma Chi fraternity raised $1,750 in donations for victims
of the terrorists attacks at a car wash Saturday, said Sigma
Chi President John McQueeney. The Mobile filling station on
the corner of Hulen Street and Bellaire Drive gave his fraternity
permission to conduct a car wash on their property.
Sophomore
radio-TV-film major Hunter Davis said the fraternity will
present a check for the full amount to the Red Cross of Fort
Worth.
Davis,
who participated in the car wash, said Sigma Chi members Brice
Morgan and Mark Chesson came up with the idea at last week’s
meeting and helped organize the project.
Davis
said some people were willing to donate even without a free
car wash. At one point, he said, the line was so long it disrupted
the flow of traffic on the major intersection.
“A
lot of people pulled up that didn’t even need their car
washed,” Davis said. “They just wanted to make a
donation.”
Member
Brice Morgan, a sophomore finance major said one customer
got teary-eyed as he reached into his wallet to make a donation.
Morgan
said the customer said, “This is what’s keeping
America united.”
Additionally,
the Delta Sigma Theta sorority has been collecting teddy bears
in the Student Center to send to children whose parents died
in the attacks.
Jamie
White, vice president of Delta Sigma Theta, said about 20
stuffed animals were collected Monday and Tuesday.
Sam Eaton
s.m.eaton@student.tcu.edu
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