We spend a lot of time and space voicing our concerns regarding tailgating, the Design School Bash and the infamous Brent Road party, but those events, while both fun and extremely important, don’t do anything to help others.
Just this past weekend, students and the University participated in both the Krispy Kreme Challenge and Hoops for Hope, providing support and help toward the North Carolina Children’s Hospital and breast cancer, respectively.
These are the events we should be proud of.
Sports Illustrated deemed the Krispy Kreme Challenge one of the top 100 things college students should do before they graduate.
Hoops for Hope, sponsored by the Women’s Center and women’s basketball team draws attention to breast cancer and helps ante up support and money to aid in the search for a cure.
We praise the organizers of both events — it is you who help shed a positive light on our University — but that isn’t what matters.
As hokey as it may seem, what really matters is that our University cares about helping other people and it shows through events such as the ones from last weekend.
It doesn’t end there, however, because this week we have two more events that illustrate our civic conscience in Dance Marathon and the Big Four Canned Food Drive.
Dance Marathon is the elite service event at UNC-Chapel Hill — students come out in droves each year.
We have our own version of a major service event in the Krispy Kreme Challenge, but we should strive to make both bigger and better every year.
The Big Four Canned Food Drive is a competition to see which of the major N.C. universities can donate the most cans and raise the most money. Next time you go to the grocery store spend a few extra dollars and get some cans for the drive — if we can’t beat Duke at basketball or UNC at football, we might as well collect more food and money.
Besides, that is more important in the end.
We tend to lose sight of what is really important — last weekend’s service events combined with this week’s are the seeds of real legacies.
