Community Service

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Community Service

• By Stephanie Walker

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Why is community service important?

• Before I moved to college, I did a lot of
  community service with my church, but I had never
  done any outside of that. Everyone that I do
  community service work with are in my classes or
  in my sorority, and this really helps me to get
  to know who they are inside of themselves.

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Relay for Life
To get ready for Relay for Life, my sorority did
a fundraiser in the Palms Quad that raised money
to help us get our booth set up. Although, we did
not raise as much money as we did the night of
the walk, the money helped us get started. We
sold cookies and brownies and handed out Relay
for Life cups with candy in them. We also handed
out Breast Cancer Awareness pamphlets. The radio
station Hot 102.7 was also there, and they
announced what we were doing and told everyone
that we were doing it for Relay for Life and told
what days the walk would be. Other sororities and
fraternities were out there raising money as
well.
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Relay for Life
My sorority had our own team for Relay for Life.
We also had a dunking booth that raised money.
Also, people from my high school were out at
Relay for Life selling candy and drinks for
quarters, which sold well. Although, we had Greek
week games the day of Relay for Life and the next
morning as well, there was a great turn out.
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Relay for Life

• Zeta had a tent that sold Chick-fil-A
  sandwiches. When it was 3 in the morning,
  everyone wanted a chicken sandwiches, so those
  sold well.
• The male cross dressing pageant was also a hit
  that night, and I was sure to support my peers
  and friends that were in the pageant.

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Relay for Life

• Some other fun activities that I participated in
  at Relay for Life were dodge ball and a oversized
  glove boxing match. I completely dominated at
  the boxing. Dodge ball was really fun because I
  had never tried to play dodge ball in the dark!

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Car Washes
We had a lot of car washes with our FYE class.
We washed around 20 cars and were out there for 3
or 4 hours. The money went towards the FYE flag
football team and other events. Most of the time
I just held the signs at all of the car washes
that I went to, and danced to random peoples
music as they drove by.
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Big Man on Campus
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Big Man on Campus
My sorority had a fundraiser that raised money
that went to Breast Cancer Awareness and
Education. We raised around 5,000 that went to
our philanthropy and we had a great time, as
well. Zeta does this fundraiser each year, and
everyone cant wait to see who the new king is
for that year. Big Man on Campus has a lot of
fun and crazy stuff that keeps people coming back
year after year.

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Big Man on Campus
I plan on attending Big Man on Campus next year
and the years after that as well. Not only does
it raise money for a great cause, but it is very
funny and many different groups of people go.
Zeta has this fundraiser each year, and more
people come each year.
BMOC
BMOC
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Breast Cancer Awareness and Education
My sororities philanthropy is Breast Cancer
Awareness and Education. One of the things that
we have done is go to River Street in
Jacksonville and hand out pamphlets. This was fun
and the people there were very willing to take
the pamphlets and talk about our philanthropy as
well.
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• My sorority has done many fundraisers for our
  philanthropy. We have also had chicken dinners,
  which were sold at the Greek Week softball
  tournament. That was the only food that was for
  sale out there all day long, so we sold a good
  amount of those. There are many small things
  that we do to raise money for our philanthropy as
  well.

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I plan on doing more community service for more
years to come, because I really enjoy seeing
other people be happy. Even when working for no
pay is not the most fun thing in the world,
sometimes its not the money that matters. Just
seeing other people be happy should be enough pay
to encourage us and others to do more for our
community.
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