"Celebrate, remember, and fight back" is the theme for the 2008 American Cancer Society's Relay for Life that will be held from 3 p.m. April 18 to 9 a.m. April 19 at LaFollette Field.
Relay for Life is an overnight charity event held throughout the United States to celebrate cancer survivors, remember people lost to cancer and to promote cancer awareness. According to the American Cancer Society's Web site, since the beginning of the event more than $2.7 billion has been raised for the American Cancer Society.
Team Development Leader Lisa Shipley said so far this year, the Ball State University chapter has raised approximately $4,000.
Joe Young, president of Colleges Against Cancer and Relay for Life chairman, said anyone could join a team it was not just for Ball State students.
Shipley said teams consisted of eight and 20 members all with the same goal, to raise at least $100 per member. One way participants can do this is to sell $10 Luminaria bags, she said.
She said the small, white paper bags could be decorated and dedicated to a person who died from disease or to celebrate the life of a survivor. At the Luminaria Ceremony, participants will place a candle in the center of bag and read off the people's names effected by cancer, she said.
Shipley said activities for the event included a WCRD disc jockey, choral fraternity Phi Mu Alpha would sing the national anthem, there would be a scavenger hunt and a Miss Relay Pageant.
Young said the Ball State chapter of Relay for Life was started by Andrew Fritz five years ago.
"It has gotten bigger every year and we hope that continues," Young said.
EventRELAY FOR LIFE THEME: "Celebrate, remember and fight back"
TIME: 3 p.m. April 18 to 9 a.m. April 19
LOCATION: LaFollette Field
MORE INFORMATION: Another Relay for Life informational meeting will be 7 p.m. March 19 at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center, Room 305.
For more information students can contact Lisa Shipley at lmshipley2@bsu.edu or Kristen Jeffers at kristen.jeffers@cancer.org/a>. Jeffers is the Ball State representative for the American Cancer Society. Students can also go to the Facebook groups Colleges Against Cancer and the Ball State network's Relay for Life.
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