2008 Woodie Awards
Letters To The Editor
Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: Commentary
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Spring Weekend News
This past Wednesday, the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity had their second annual chicken nugget-eating contest for charity. Like all other fraternities and sororities, Alpha Epsilon Pi puts on a yearly event to raise money and awareness for charitable organizations. AEPi puts all of the proceeds of from its events to the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Chai Lifeline and the Shaare-Zedek Medical Center in Israel.
Although the chapter still has an online auction going on, AEPi has eclipsed the $12,000 mark putting them in contention to be the highest-raising philanthropic effort in AEPi national history that spans almost a century. Also, that mark puts them in competition with last year's HuskyTHON. AEPi is about 10 times above the average mark for a philanthropic efforts at the university. The chapter has received local, regional and even national coverage in addition to many accolades.
However, the event was pushed aside to report about Spring Weekend Festivities and fires at off-campus apartment complexes. Something is not right with this. For a campus so concerned with its image, maybe the official "Spring Weekend Sober Event" should have been in the place of a Wednesday night party at Willington Oaks Apartments.
When I think about the Wednesday before Spring Weekend, I think about the chicken nugget-eating contest, not the unsanctioned party that caused havoc. It is said that bad news gets more publicity, but this just seems like a no-brainer. For years the University of Connecticut has climbed the national ranks of universities and colleges and has worked tirelessly on its image by reporting the good things that its students and professors are doing, rather than partying. This weekend the Storrs campus saw thousands of people that do not go to UConn and this is the message we have decided to send - that we would rather report about how we party than about an organization raising over $12,000.
In the future, there should be more consideration concerning news at the University of Connecticut.
- Eric Weinstein,
President of the
Interfraternity Council at the
University of Connecticut.
Spring Weekend News
This past Wednesday, the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity had their second annual chicken nugget-eating contest for charity. Like all other fraternities and sororities, Alpha Epsilon Pi puts on a yearly event to raise money and awareness for charitable organizations. AEPi puts all of the proceeds of from its events to the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Chai Lifeline and the Shaare-Zedek Medical Center in Israel.
Although the chapter still has an online auction going on, AEPi has eclipsed the $12,000 mark putting them in contention to be the highest-raising philanthropic effort in AEPi national history that spans almost a century. Also, that mark puts them in competition with last year's HuskyTHON. AEPi is about 10 times above the average mark for a philanthropic efforts at the university. The chapter has received local, regional and even national coverage in addition to many accolades.
However, the event was pushed aside to report about Spring Weekend Festivities and fires at off-campus apartment complexes. Something is not right with this. For a campus so concerned with its image, maybe the official "Spring Weekend Sober Event" should have been in the place of a Wednesday night party at Willington Oaks Apartments.
When I think about the Wednesday before Spring Weekend, I think about the chicken nugget-eating contest, not the unsanctioned party that caused havoc. It is said that bad news gets more publicity, but this just seems like a no-brainer. For years the University of Connecticut has climbed the national ranks of universities and colleges and has worked tirelessly on its image by reporting the good things that its students and professors are doing, rather than partying. This weekend the Storrs campus saw thousands of people that do not go to UConn and this is the message we have decided to send - that we would rather report about how we party than about an organization raising over $12,000.
In the future, there should be more consideration concerning news at the University of Connecticut.
- Eric Weinstein,
President of the
Interfraternity Council at the
University of Connecticut.
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