Spring Break
Walking against breast cancer
Allie Figures
Issue date: 10/27/08 Section: News
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"I feel like this is the best way to pay my respects," said Easter, a junior African-American studies major.
Joining the efforts of the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, the Beta Theta Pi fraternity led 40 students from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library down Santa Clara Street to HP Pavilion.
"We wanted to start on our own and join up with the official walk of the American Cancer Society," said Chris Lake, president of Beta Theta Pi.
The senior business management major greeted students with free T-shirts provided by Associated Students and three-foot-tall pink ribbon picket signs.
"The best part is seeing everyone walking down the street with the signs and cars honking in support of our cause," Lake said. Adorned in hot pink and white, the crowd of students made a striking visual as they walked down the street.
The fraternity's vice president Viktor Beall helped Lake lead the group with a megaphone, shouting breast cancer statistics to passers-by. He said he wanted to emphasize the importance of early detection.
"Forty-thousand women will die from breast cancer each year," Beall shouted.
Adrianne Schaffer, a new member of Alpha Phi, said she first got checked for breast cancer when she was 12 years old.
"It was extremely awkward," said the sophomore sociology major. "I think it is very important to get routine checks, but I kind of felt like I was being groped."
Statistics from the American Cancer Society stated that one in eight women between the ages of 21 to 85 are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
"I never met my grandmother because she died from breast cancer at 36," Schaffer said.
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