No-Shave Nov. grows beyond 5 o’clock shadow

The winter is almost here and it seems that the colder the weather is, the more and more beards begin to pop up around campus. The reason for this is the long-standing tradition of “No-Shave November.” No-Shave November has slowly but surely swept the entire nation especially with high school and college students. Students at GCSU are catching onto the trend – both boys and girls alike.

“It was something my friends were doing junior year of high school and I have had a beard ever since,” freshman Daniel Grizzle said.

Grizzle takes pride in being grizzly and he said he actually prefers having a beard.

“I’ve had one for such a long time that it feels strange not to have one. I celebrate No-Shave November all year long, so I just call each month a different name. My favorite is Jolly-Beard January,” Grizzle said.

Others have caught on to the trend a little more recently, but possess just as much boldness. Take Christina Wells, a junior who took part by not shaving her legs last November, she said.

“I had a bunch of guy friends on my hall last year and they were saying how none of the girls they knew would go through with not shaving their legs for a month. My boyfriend at the time was doing it so we had a contest to see who could make it the longest and whoever won would buy the other person dinner,” Wells said.

Wells added that she called it a tie by the 20th because she had an event to go to and also because it was getting to be unbearable.

“It was definitely gross towards the end,” she said.

Some students will go without shaving for certain organizations.

“I did No-Shave November last year and this year. There are two reasons that I do it: the first is for the GIVE Center to raise awareness for testicular cancer and the second is because it is just fun not to shave for a month,” junior Zach Mullins said.

Mullins said that he had a lot of friends who participated last year and that he has been trying to persuade them to do the same this year. He confessed that he favors being clean-shaven to being scruffy, but that he doesn’t mind sparing the blade.

“This is the only month of the year where I don’t shave, so it’s nice to sit back and not have to worry about it,” Mullins said.

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