Recently, The Kappa Sigma Fraternity held their fourth annual “Busting Ours to Save Yours” fundraiser to help raise money and promote awareness of Testicular Cancer. For a week long period the fraternity had tables in the library quad and sold a variety of nuts including peanuts, cashews, and pecans as well as candy from 8 am to 5 pm. 100% of the proceeds were donated to the Lance Armstrong foundation to support testicular cancer research.
This year $947.91 dollars were donated and 350 hours of community service were put into this great event. “By doing events like this we get to help the community on a much larger scale while also showing the university what we are all about. I am glad we were able to donate so much money to help support cancer research” said Brother Slavin. This year’s event was even more successful than in the past bringing in more money to be donated to cancer research and more awareness around campus.
Testicular cancer is most common in men between the ages of 15-40. Nearly 1 in every 250 men will suffer from this type of cancer; however most men, especially college students, don’t even think about it. When detected early it can be cured almost 100% of the time. Kappa Sigma provided information to college students and increased awareness around Northeastern’s campus so that those who are most susceptible to this form of cancer will be more prepared to detect and go through treatment.
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