ATO's lost locks bring in big bucks for cancer research
 

(I hope none of these "volunteers" were pledges)


Frat's lost locks bring in big bucks for cancer research

Alpha Tau Omega raises awareness, money for American Cancer Society by allowing sororities to play hairstylist

By Henry Leineweber
The Daily Barometer

Volunteers from Alpha Tau Omega fraternity surrendered their hair ---- and a bit of their pride -- Sunday to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Their "Cuts for the Cure" fund-raiser, which is in its second year, involved eight volunteers from Alpha Tau Omega allowing their hair to be cut in any fashion by the highest bidder.

The ladies of Kappa Delta sorority won the rights to cut the hair of Billy Nieto, a junior in computer science.

At 4 p.m. Sunday, Nieto and about a dozen of his fraternity brothers walked over to the Kappa Delta house for Nieto's big haircut.

"Don't know if I'm looking forward to the finished product, but I can't wait to chop off my hair," Nieto said.

As the time for his haircut approached, however, Nieto's confidence began to fade, and he shifted his weight nervously from side to side.

Inside the Kappa Delta house, Nieto quietly took a seat as four sorority sisters and the rest of his friends began to debate how to carve him up.

"Give him a 'skullet!' I hope they just mess it up real bad," said fellow ATO Evan Osterlund, a sophomore in business administration.

"No mullets!" said Nieto, trying to get a grip on the situation.

Kappa Delta member Erin Groebe, a sophomore in interior design and merchandising management, took charge of the situation and began buzzing away with the electric clippers. Within seconds, a giant bald patch appeared over the front half of Nieto's head.

"This is horrible!" Nieto said, as a big clump of hair landed on his tongue.

For the next half hour, the crowd cheered him on and contributed their own ideas. Many of the ATOs egging Groebe on were set to have their heads carved up later that night.

Nieto, laughing so hard that tears streamed down his face, gauged the damage in a bathroom mirror.

His head was completely shaved, except for a patch on the back of his skull with the Greek letters "kappa" and "delta" etched in. A top-knot completed the ensemble. But ATO president Max Lippman had one more surprise in store for Nieto.

"They didn't have green so I got blue," said Lippman, as he plopped a bottle of hair dye on the counter top.

Nieto's top-knot was promptly dyed blue.

According to Lippman, the "Cuts for the Cure" fund-raiser has been far more successful this year than last year.

"We got about $400 from auctioning off our guys, plus about $600 from a raffle sponsored by local businesses like Mongolian Grill," Lippman explained.

He also expects about $5000 to be brought in from letters sent to OSU alumni.

Nieto and his other newly-shorn fraternity brothers can be seen with their hair cuts ---- without hats ---- for the rest of the week, the period they are required to show off their new 'dos to all of campus.

Re: ATO's lost locks bring in big bucks for cancer research
 

What an asinine thing to say. Only you can turn a good deed into something negative.

what a brave group of men! lol. definately a different way of raising money!

We had a group on our campus that raised money for the American Cancer Society each year by getting each chapter to have someone volunteer to get their hair "done" , and the "winner" picked by penny voting (or $10s & 20s). As an added bonus, I would let the chapter that collected the most money shave their letters into my hair! Of course it was a big added incentive to shave your chapter's letters into the Greek Advisor's head in the middle of the Quad during Springfest, so each year they raise over $2,000. Then when the semester is over, (this is about 2 weeks before the end), I just go get my head shaved. The first year was really bad though, because they didn't use actual hair clippers, but a beard and mustache trimmer (ouch) . The poor Alpha Kappa Lambda president that "won" had his hair positively butchered (plus it hurts trying to cut that much hair with a little trimmer).