St. Jude

Students rally together at St. Jude fundraiser

Sarah Mead Staff Writer smead@murraystate.edu On Tuesday, Feb. 4, Murray State hosted the No More Cancer Rally for St. Jude Children’s Hospital to end childhood cancer. Tuesday marked the 58th anniversary of the hospital’s founding. In those 58 years, the hospital has increased cancer survival rates from 20 percent to 80 percent. Students gathered in Read More

Students raise money to fight cancer

Story by Alexis Schindler, Staff writer Photo courtesy of Emily Leonard Throughout the 2018-19 school year, Murray State students have been fundraising with the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in St. Jude’s nationwide college Up ‘til Dawn event. This year, the goal for the student-led fundraiser was $50,000; students surpassed that goal and ended with Read More

Up ‘Til Dawn recruitment efforts bring fun to campus

Story by Amy Turner, Contributing writer Today and tomorrow mark national recruitment days for Up ‘Til Dawn, a student-led and student-run organization committed to raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Campuses nationwide that are involved with Up ‘Til Dawn are hosting recruitment efforts this week. Today kicked off the recruitment campaign and was Read More

Student uses personal business to fundraise for St. Jude

Story by Bella Utley, Contributing writer From Nov. 15 to Nov. 24 an executive board member of the Up Til’ Dawn organization volunteered to use his candle business, Lotus and Light Candle Co., to benefit the fundraising. Renn Lovett, senior from Memphis, Tennessee, is a nursing student and said he never expected to run a Read More

Up all night for big sums

St. Jude raised record amount of money at Murray State Story by Gisselle Hernandez, Assistant Features Editor While a typical Friday night in a college town does not usually consists of shaving heads, duct taping torsos or dancing silently to “Macarena,” this was the experience 100 students faced on Friday night through Saturday morning. For six hours, Read More

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