LSU won the Outstanding St. Jude Up ‘til Dawn Award at the Student Leadership Seminar on Feb. 4 for last year’s Gold Game. The event, on Oct. 13, 2012, raised more than $25,000 in donations toward St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Jenna Rhoads, executive director of this year’s Up ‘til Dawn event, held on Nov. 15., said patients from St. Jude attended the Gold Game last season and got to meet students who had raised money for the research hospital.
“They walked out before the game and the entire PMAC stood and gave them a standing ovation,” Rhoads said of the St. Jude children.
Rhoads said about 200 schools nationwide participate in Up ‘til Dawn, a fundraiser for St. Jude. This semester’s event will be held at the UREC and will start at 12 a.m. and end at 6 a.m. Nov. 16. Students in teams of six work together to raise a minimum of $600 in order to participate.
Rhoads said participants have raised $8,330 so far. The upcoming event will include a relay race, dodgeball tournament and capture the flag, and will finish with a breakfast.
They will also host a fundraiser day at Caliente Mexican Craving today, with 15 percent of all sales going to St. Jude. There will also be a photo booth at the restaurant from 6 to 9 p.m., according to Samantha Napoli, the Up ‘til Dawn public relations chair.
“We just want to involve the LSU community,” Napoli said.