Page 3 - Diamond News - February 2014

Page 3 Delete Blood Cancer St Baldrick’s As part of our continued support to help not only our For the last several years, raising money as a chapter for brothers but also the community, every member of our the St. Baldrick's Foundation has been one of our top chapter signed up to be a blood marrow donor in the Delete Philanthropic priorities. The St. Baldrick's foundation raises Blood Cancer database. Soon after our registration, two of money for the research of children's cancer. They do so our brothers, Hayden Riddiford and Zachary Slaney, were with the help of volunteers who pledge to shave their heads selected to be donors and they both answered the call. They and find sponsors who will donate for this cause. Last year, will be donating their hematopoietic stem cells to a blood we were able to raise $12,000, a number we are hoping to cancer patient in Washington D.C at the end of January. The top this year. In the near future, we will be having a procedure includes being injected with medication for the proceeds night at Rocky Mountain Pizza to benefit this three days prior to donating to mobilize the stem cells out charity. On March 8 , we will also be holding a poker th of the bone marrow. Their blood will be run through a tournament to help further our donation to St. Baldrick’s. dialysis machine which will sort out the stem cells that will All are welcome and we hope to see you there! Our team then be engrafted onto the cancer patient. page and progress can be tracked here: http://www.stbaldricks.org/teams/gtdu Preview to Next Issue Top 5 GPA Among Social Fraternities. During the fall 2013 semester our brothers worked hard to get a 3.25 GPA as an organization, which put us in fifth among social fraternities. This marks an increase of 0.1 over our GPA from the spring 2013 semester. Our new associate member class also had the highest GPA for any associate member class, with an average GPA of 3.55, which is a full 0.5 over the all men’s average at Tech.