The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Issue date: 5/4/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Mike Kalush Vanessa Schilling, left, a junior biomedical science major, and Leah Fenimore, a sophomore biology major accept donations during the Passionately Pink event. The event consisted of three-legged races, hula-hoop contests, a raffle and other fun activities to raise awareness for breast cancer.

The sopping streets and cold air Friday afternoon were not enough to deter the efforts of about 20 CSU students and community members in the fight against breast cancer.

Tammy Zuber, a six-year cancer survivor and one of the participants in CSU's first annual Passionately Pink for the Cure event, said the field day fundraiser, which featured a contest for the best-dressed person in pink, a three-legged race, a hula-hoop contest and wheelbarrow race, served to raise awareness not only about cancer's deadly nature but the hope that exists in spite of it.

The event raised $150 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the world's largest network of survivors and activists fighting to find a cure for breast cancer and a 25-year pioneer of breast cancer research.








And while the amount was not as much as event coordinators from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars had hoped to raise, they said they could only hope for improvement next time.

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