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Issue date: 5/1/09 Section: News
Greek Life participates in City 5K Run
Members of Fraternity and Sorority Life will participate in the 17th Annual University City 5K Run as part of Greek Week 2009.
Greek Life and the Drexel Alumni Association are teaming together and are actively involved with the run as participants and as volunteers.
"Chapters receive both participation points for having the appropriate amount of volunteers and runners [at the run]," Michele Keenan, Panhellenic Council president, said.
Established in 1993, the University City 5K Run benefits the Nicholas P. Pipino Scholarship Foundation.
The foundation has provided Drexel students with more than $120,000 in scholarship funds over the last 17 years.
Nicholas Pipino was a victim of a fatal stabbing in December 1992. Since then, the Drexel community and Pipino's family and friends have come together each year to remind the community of the need to end to acts of violence.
"[Members] also can gain bonus points if one of their members comes in first, second, or third in relation to the other chapters of their Greek Council," Keenan said.
Runners will start and end on the north side of Chestnut Street and 31st street; from there they will travel over the Spring Garden Street Bridge and down Martin Luther King Drive.
Alpha Epsilon Pi raises $1000 for philantrophy
Alpha Epsilon Pi raised over $1,000 at its third annual AEPi in Your Eye event April 29.
According to Jeff Ginsburg, Alpha Epsilon Pi's public relations chair, AEPi in Your Eye is quickly becoming one of the fraternity's most successful philanthropic events.
"AEPi in Your Eye is one of our favorite philanthropic events of the term - you get to pie someone and you get to help save lives," AEPi President Shaw Levin, said.
A $1 donation buys a student a chance to pie either a brother or a Drexel faculty member in the face.
The brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi reached out to local businesses for sponsorships this year, which provided over half of the funds raised.
All proceeds raised at this event will be donated to Shaare Zedek, a Medical Center in Jerusalem, and one of the fraternity's national philanthropies.
"Shaare Zedek is a non-profit, teaching hospital affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem," Ginsburg said. "This hospital is one of the best in the world for dealing with trauma patients, because of the surrounding community in Israel."
"I've been helping out at AEPi In Your Eye for three years now, and it keeps getting bigger, better and turning out better results for us to donate," member Dan Zimmerman said.
Members of Fraternity and Sorority Life will participate in the 17th Annual University City 5K Run as part of Greek Week 2009.
Greek Life and the Drexel Alumni Association are teaming together and are actively involved with the run as participants and as volunteers.
"Chapters receive both participation points for having the appropriate amount of volunteers and runners [at the run]," Michele Keenan, Panhellenic Council president, said.
Established in 1993, the University City 5K Run benefits the Nicholas P. Pipino Scholarship Foundation.
The foundation has provided Drexel students with more than $120,000 in scholarship funds over the last 17 years.
Nicholas Pipino was a victim of a fatal stabbing in December 1992. Since then, the Drexel community and Pipino's family and friends have come together each year to remind the community of the need to end to acts of violence.
"[Members] also can gain bonus points if one of their members comes in first, second, or third in relation to the other chapters of their Greek Council," Keenan said.
Runners will start and end on the north side of Chestnut Street and 31st street; from there they will travel over the Spring Garden Street Bridge and down Martin Luther King Drive.
Alpha Epsilon Pi raises $1000 for philantrophy
Alpha Epsilon Pi raised over $1,000 at its third annual AEPi in Your Eye event April 29.
According to Jeff Ginsburg, Alpha Epsilon Pi's public relations chair, AEPi in Your Eye is quickly becoming one of the fraternity's most successful philanthropic events.
"AEPi in Your Eye is one of our favorite philanthropic events of the term - you get to pie someone and you get to help save lives," AEPi President Shaw Levin, said.
A $1 donation buys a student a chance to pie either a brother or a Drexel faculty member in the face.
The brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi reached out to local businesses for sponsorships this year, which provided over half of the funds raised.
All proceeds raised at this event will be donated to Shaare Zedek, a Medical Center in Jerusalem, and one of the fraternity's national philanthropies.
"Shaare Zedek is a non-profit, teaching hospital affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem," Ginsburg said. "This hospital is one of the best in the world for dealing with trauma patients, because of the surrounding community in Israel."
"I've been helping out at AEPi In Your Eye for three years now, and it keeps getting bigger, better and turning out better results for us to donate," member Dan Zimmerman said.
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