Breakfast and sleep are important before finals, but sleeping in usually takes priority over pancakes and eggs. To solve this problem, the Ball State University Sigma Chi fraternity is offering students breakfast-for-dinner from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the fraternity's basement.
Jon Huntsman, a former University of Utah Sigma Chi member, founded the Huntsman Cancer Research Institution 30 years ago, and this was the first time the national fraternity has done an event to help give money to the institution. Sigma Chi President T.J. Hall said.
"We don't have a philanthropy during the fall and so this is a way for the greek community to come together and eat," he said. "This is something that would be good for everyone, especially during Finals Week."
The Huntsman Cancer Institution uses research and state-of-the-art patient care to understand cancer, improve treatments and help patients fight their diseases, according to its Web site.
Sigma Chi will have 200 chairs and 25 tables set up for the breakfast-for-dinner event, Cory Schneider, Sigma Chi member who helped with the event planning, said. He was in charge of getting chairs, tables, decorating and cleaning the house.
"[This was] T.J.'s original idea, but we all decided it was good we had a non-alcoholic event that benefited the community, and have a philanthropic event that benefited someone other than ourselves," he said.
The dinner costs $3, and the Sigma Chi members will cook.
Hall said two years ago Huntsman Cancer Institution became a national Sigma Chi philanthropy. In August, the Ball State chapter attended a leadership training workshop with at least 5,000 other Sigma Chi members from around the country at the John R. Emens Auditorium at Ball State. Huntsman came and spoke about his institution and how Sigma Chi affected his life, he said. Because of everything the fraternity did for him, Huntsman wanted them to have a philanthropy they could give back to.
"The fraternity already had a philanthropy in the spring for the Children's Miracle Network so Sigma Chi wanted to have this event in the fall," Hall said. "We decided last month that it was important to have an event each semester instead of just one of the semesters. We expect to have about 200 people, and will fill the whole basement of our house. We hope to raise about $500."
Hall said Huntsman said he would match every dollar raised, and that it was good to give back to another organization while having fun at the same time.
Schneider said the dinner was a worthy cause and the institution was something the fraternity needed to start raising money for. He said he hoped other fraternities and sororities would show up and support Sigma Chi.
"It's going to help bring the greek community together and realize we're all trying to do the same thing and live by our individual ideals, but help other people out in the process," he said.
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