A Semester in Review: Sorority philanthropy events
Editor's note: Kappa Alpha Theta raised more money at its event and after the check pictured below had been made.
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Editor's note: Kappa Alpha Theta raised more money at its event and after the check pictured below had been made.
On a cool fall night, senior Fabiana Ayala sat cross-legged on her navy University Forest Apartment couch in a pair of red-and-white striped pajamas while catching up on emails. Ayala typically finished up her schoolwork by 10 p.m. during the week so she could get to bed at a decent hour. She dragged herself out of bed around 6 each morning to run her business, TodoSuma.
Dangerously high levels of E. coli and coliform detected in Westhampton Lake have forced Delta Gamma and Theta Chi to postpone their joint philanthropic event, Richmond Regatta.
For 77 days this summer, senior Lyniesha Wright lived without electricity, plumbing or even an alarm clock in the Kalu Yala Valley in the Panamanian highlands.
Contact photographer Mia Webber at mia.webber@richmond.edu
More than 500 University of Richmond students packed the Alice Haynes Room Tuesday night to support Kappa Alpha Theta sorority's philanthropic fashion show.
The Sigma Chi fraternity held its annual Derby Days philanthropy event last week, and this year included participation from an independent team, nicknamed Team Three Chopt.
Kappa Alpha Theta and Sigma Phi Epsilon each took home first-place trophies in the fourth annual Greek Games benefiting Special Olympics Virginia on Saturday.
Live Aid, Farm Aid, Live 8, NetAid and Live Earth. Since George Harrison and Ravi Shankar popularized the concept with the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, benefit concerts have become regularly occurring, star-studded events with a formulaic mix of aging rock stars grasping for relevance and world leaders grasping for exposure.
Certain Greek organizations at University of Richmond have held or are planning spring charity events to raise money for their national philanthropies.
On the evening of Wednesday, March 27, Delta Gamma hosted its first philanthropic volleyball tournament, Anchor Slam, to raise money for Service for Sight.
Although the cloudy, cold weather put a damper on the number of teams that played in Kappa Alpha Theta's first "KAT at BAT" wiffle ball tournament, team, "It's Jolmi Time" defeated team, "Swag Kings" in the final match to win the tournament.
The heat was sweltering as students gathered in the Greek Theater on Saturday amid a mass of blue balloons. Jackets were shed, and many spectators enjoyed popsicles as they waited. Bubbles floated over everyone's heads from a bottle in the sixth row. When the first act, Resin, walked on stage to play "Love Song" by The Cure, the crowd of about 50 people erupted in riotous applause.
Neither John O'Hurley nor Steve Harvey was dressed in a black button-up and white suit and tie on Monday at Lambda Chi Alpha's Family Feud for Food philanthropy fundraiser.
The Delta Dodgeball tournament, hosted by members of the Delta Delta Delta sorority, was held in support of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and concluded with a specially requested game -- the women's bracket winners, Spider Soccer, versus the men's bracket winners, members of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity will host SPEaster, a philanthropic event to raise money for the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls at 11 a.m. April 7 on the Westhampton Green.
The University of Richmond raised $27,476 Friday for its sixth annual Relay for Life, a national American Cancer Society fundraiser for cancer research.
Only 10 days after their senior season came to an end, Josh Duinker and Francis-Cedric Martel returned to the courts to participate in the Pi Beta Phi sorority's annual spring philanthropy event, "Ballin for Books."
A standing-room-only crowd of more than 500 students packed the Alice Haynes Room at the University of Richmond Monday night to watch sorority sisters sashay down the runway for Kappa Alpha Theta's third annual KATwalk fashion show.
Sigma Phi Epsilon will donate to soldiers abroad by designing its rush T-shirts from Salute the Brave, a retailer dedicated to supporting the military and making donations to service members.