By: Syd Bickers
Milligan’s SGA named prospective Mr. Buff contestants last night, got the ball rolling for the “Pink” women’s basketball game on Wednesday, Feb. 13 and solidified plans for a 27-hour standathon to raise funds and awareness to fight modern-day slavery.
Manly Men of Milligan: Did you make the Mr. Buff cut?
This year’s Mr. Buff competition is Friday, March 1. Milligan men can sign up to be in the pageant in hopes of winning a prize and the Mr. Buff title for one year.
Last year’s winner won tickets to That Big Party. The SGA committee said this year’s winner would receive dance tickets and more. The group is considering giving all contestants a cash prize or a gift card.
The committee made a list of prospective male students that it wants to invite to take part in the pageant.
The list is as follows:
-Jared Abel
-Daniel Ball
-Rusty Baxter
-Colin Blowers
-Chris Boswell
-Nathan Hall
-Jonathan Herd
-Zach Hollifield
-David Lawler
-Tyler McElfresh
-Taylor Ross
-Oscar Sarmiento
-Torian Sitton
-Wade Tugman
-Matt Waeckerle
-Timothy Wood
Mr. Buff registration begins next week in the cafeteria.
“Pink-Out” at Next Wednesday Night’s Home Game
SGA plans to raise money for breast cancer research at the Wednesday, Feb. 13 women’s basketball home game against Columbia. SGA encourages students to wear all pink.
The group said it will sell pink cotton candy, pink lemonade, chocolate covered strawberries and pink ribbons at the game and plans to have pink face paint for students use. Funds raised from the items will go to either the Susan G. Komen Foundation or The American Cancer Society.
“I want to raise money for a cause,” said SGA member Kylie Russell, who presented the idea. “I don’t want to just wear pink and look cool.”
Though it is not breast cancer awareness month, the group said the pink theme fits in with Valentine’s Day. The game is a conference game and is the last regular season home game for the women’s team.
Would you stand for 27 hours against slavery?
As recently covered by The Stampede, SGA plans to host a 27-hour standathon to raise funds and awareness to fight modern-day slavery. “Stand for Freedom” was solidified at last night’s meeting, and will be held on March 5-6.
It will begin at 9 a.m. in the SUB and will carry over onto Derthick Commons at noon the next day. * SGA said it hopes to find a band to play music for the closing.
The event lasts for 27 hours to signify the 27 million slaves in the world today. SGA President Danica Collins said she would like to raise $2,700 for the cause. This entails 10 people to raise $100 to stand for one hour each. The group plans to send support letters to local businesses and churches.
Students can go to the International Justice Mission (IJM) website to pledge to stand. Funds do not have to be raised. Students can simply stand to make a statement.
Campuses around the nation are signed up to stand March 5-16. The current school with the most participants is Georgia College and State University, which has a total of 276 registered students. Clemson University and Pennsylvania State University follow.
SGA Vice President Nathan Rodda would like to see Milligan College on the top of the participating campuses list. He believed that Milligan could top the registration of Georgia State University, a school with an undergraduate enrollment of 24,000. As of last night’s meeting, only two Milligan students were registered.
“This is something that can be made really big,” said Rodda. “However small we are, we’re focused on giving back to the community…I would love to see more that 250 people signed up, and we can do that…Maybe we could say that we could do something on the scale that someone at Penn. State couldn’t do.”
*A statement regarding Chick-Fil-A was removed from this story due to a factual error.
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