On Oct. 12-14, Zeta Tau Alpha hosted its annual Think Pink Week through three fundraising events: Slice, Slice Baby on the Bowld Commons lawn, Tulum Benefit Night at Tulum Fresh Mexican Grill and Pie a Zeta outside the Student Union Building.
All proceeds from the events will go toward the sorority’s philanthropy, Breast Cancer Education and Awareness. Slice, Slice Baby, which occurred Monday night from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., provided an evening of pizza and conversation for visitors. On Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., 10 percent of Tulum’s proceeds went toward Breast Cancer Education and Awareness. The week’s concluding event, Pie a Zeta, took take place today from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. outside the SUB. Participants had the opportunity to pie a participating Zeta member after purchasing one pie for $2 or three pies for $5.
“My goal is not only to have a week filled with fun events,” said Zeta philanthropy chair and junior nursing major Mackenzie Lewis, “but also to emphasize the true meaning behind ‘think pink’ and remember all the women who have faced or are currently facing breast cancer.”
In addition to fundraising, each Think Pink event aims to raise awareness and educate participants about breast cancer. Zeta provided a board on Monday night for attendees to write the names of women they know affected by the disease.
“We’re trying to focus on more than just the events themselves,” said senior marketing major and Zeta member Shelby Garrott. “We want to show the faces and the names behind our philanthropy because a lot of people in our chapter have been affected by breast cancer, including me. I’ve walked through it with three women I’m close to, so it means so much to help raise support.”
Zeta Tau Alpha encourages Union students, faculty and staff to consider the significance of breast cancer in their own lives, to seek personal education on the subject and to help raise awareness.
“When I learned that one out of every eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer, those numbers just floored me,” said Lewis. “That one person could easily be me, or my best friend, or my mom. There’s so much that we can do to raise support, and it’s so important that we educate each other about this.”
