GIVE Center to enter Purple Glove contest
The GIVE Center staff at GCSU is promoting cancer awareness by entering a video dance contest to raise money for the American Cancer Society and Relay for Life. With the help of students around campus and the GIVE Center staff, GCSU is preparing a purple glove dance video.
A pink glove dance video has been created in the past to promote breast cancer survival awareness.
“I saw the pink glove dance video on YouTube and originally wanted to recreate that idea to help promote cancer awareness,” senior Jaquie Beute said.
The purple glove dance video will consist of large and small groups as well as individual shots of people dancing with purple gloves on. The purple gloves can be purchased at www.4thefight.com. A portion of the proceeds will be contributed to the American Cancer Society.
Leslie Spamer, a sophomore business major, said: “I think this is such a wonderful way to raise money and I want to help out in every way possible, considering my mom is a breast-cancer survivor.”
The winner of the competition will be decided July 31 at midnight, based on the number of views on YouTube. The winner will be presented with a $5,000 check made out to the American Cancer Society.
“I started a Facebook group to see if there was any interest, and I’ve been amazed by the response,” Beute said. “As far as how many people are involved, I would love to have as many people who are interested in the video, if not in individual shots, in a large group.”
Beute along with the GIVE center staff will be helping organize and plan the video as soon as the purple gloves arrive.
“I hope that everyone in the group comes out to get in the video,” Beute said.
Posted by Sophie Singer
on Jan 22 2010. Filed under Features.
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