In response to “Krispy Kreme Challenge,” in Feb. 6 edition of the Technician.   Last weekend, 7,700 runners from across the world came to Raleigh to run the Krispy Kreme Challenge. A team of about 30 Park Scholars worked tirelessly for months to organize the race, and they began set-up on race day at 4:30 a.m. Before the race, organizers presented a check to the N.C. Children’s Hospital in the amount of $100,000, a number that is likely to grow in the coming months. This donation pushed the aggregate donation of all eight Challenges to $343,000.   None of this information was found in the February 6 Technician; instead, readers found factually incorrect information mixed with broad, simple generalizations.   The members of the Krispy Kreme Challenge committee certainly do not organize this race for their own personal glory. No, there’s no way the race could be such a booming success without a little more motivation.   For example, take 8-year-old Nathan Proctor, a patient from the N.C. Children’s Hospital, who accepted the donation check on Saturday. Eight months ago, Nathan could not walk due to a nerve disease; today, he is a normally functioning, baseball-playing second grader. After meeting Nathan and his family, anyone would realize why the race organizers spent countless hours planning this event.   On Thursday, Feb. 2, Technician’s parody page called the event an idea, which started as a “pissing contest,” and refers to it as essentially a hodgepodge of hung-over college students.   I guarantee young Nathan and his parents wouldn’t refer to this race as a “pissing contest,” and I would daresay the patients and families of the N.C. Children’s Hospital are grateful for that crazy idea that a dozen college kids had back in 2004. It’s shameful that the Technician could not do a better job of covering this event, which embodies the spirit of this great University.   Joshua Chappell sophomore, chemical engineering member of the 2012 Krispy Kreme Challenge organizing committee