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Cancer
Awareness
Index
Thursday, December 2, 2004
Holiday Gifts
Give friends and family a gift that will help
support one of their favorite causes this year.
The Hunger Site
This site has a number of items that can be purchased that
help fight world wide hunger. For example, the Sheep Kit,
which sells for $70, and enables a family to purchase a
sheep and increase its household income. To find out more,
go to www.thehungersite.com.
Stop the violence whistle
Sold at The Body Shop, the whistle key chain symbolizes ending silence that surrounds violence in the home. Five dollars
from each sale funds scholarships for Outward Bound Women
of Courage, a personal development program for female survivors of violence.
Groups copy the success of
LIVESTRONG bracelets
Brightly colored rubber
bands are the latest
trend in raising funds
Kelly Kasparie
for the Index
A look around Trumanʼs
campus shows that yellow is the
newest thing and walking into a
classroom to find a sea of yellow
bands on studentsʼ wrists is not
uncommon.
Students are sporting the yellow “LIVESTRONG” bracelets
as part of a campaign started
by cancer survivor and bicyclist
Lance Armstrong on May 17,
2004. The campaign kicked off
during Armstrongʼs successful
attempt to win his sixth Tour de
France. Each bracelet costs $1,
and all proceeds go to the Lance
Armstrong Foundation to fight
cancer.
Senior Abby Souders said she
noticed the bracelets more when
she returned to school this fall.
“I didnʼt think they were going to be that big of a deal,”
Souders said. “And then this
summer I worked at a training
facility for athletes, and I saw a
lot of them wearing it, but once
I came back to school, I think it
was even more prominent.”
The bracelets promote cancer awareness. The bracelets
also encourages people to “live
strong through education, advocacy, public health programs and
research grants,” according to
Lancearmstrong.com.
Sophomore Sasha Aldrich
said she thinks her bracelet is
important because it has helped
her to become a more positive
person.
“I never know how it would
be to fight for my life every single day that I am alive,” Aldrich
said. “If I can do my little part
and be strong and get through
college, maybe one day I could
fight cancer if I really needed
to.”
Because the yellow bracelets
are such a hit, other fund-raising organizations have started
making their own bands. Even
Truman has its very own “TRUMAN BULLDOGS” bracelet.
Members of Phi Epsilon Kappa,
the exercise and health science
fraternity, are selling the bracelet. The bracelets are black and
purple and sell for $1. For every
dollar the fraternity receives, it
keeps 50 cents.
“We are raising money to buy
a printer for student use in Pershing,” Souders said. “We have
like five or six really old computers but there is no printer for us to
use. A lot of people have wanted
that over the past few years.”
The printer will cost about
$1,000, and the group plans to
keep selling the bracelets until
interest stops.
Breast cancer foundations
also have picked up on the
success of the trend and made
their own bands. Unlike the
LIVESTRONG bracelets, these
are multiple pink bracelets,
each with a slightly different
color of pink and with a different slogan imprinted on them.
Target and Amazon.com have
teamed up to create bracelets
that read “Share Beauty, Spread
Hope” and the proceeds go to
the Breast Cancer Research
Foundation. Another nonprofit
group, LivingInPink.com, has
made pink wristbands that sport
the breast cancer phrase, “Living in Pink.”
Junior Christine McNichols
said she keeps her breast cancer awareness bracelet on at all
times. The one she wears reads,
“Until thereʼs a cure - Judy,”
which funds the Judy Ride
Foundation. McNichols said she
wears both the “LIVESTRONG”
and the breast cancer awareness
bracelets on a daily basis.
“The ʻLIVESTRONGʼ one
isnʼt as big a deal to me as the
breast cancer awareness one,”
McNichols said. “When I first
started wearing the pink one, it
was kind of an opportunity for
me to tell people what it was
about because not many people
had seen the pink ones before.”
McNichols said she has
thought about helping breast
cancer programs and informing
friends since she was in high
school.
“One of my good friends in
high school, her mother had
[breast cancer],” McNichols
said. “This is probably the one
that hits closest to home because she died when I was a
sophomore, and my friend was a
junior in high school. When that
kind of stuff happens, I think it
hits pretty hard just to know
somebodyʼs without a mother.”
Different-colored bands seem
to pop up every day. The St.
Louis Cardinals created a red
band sold at Hardeeʼs that reads,
“GO CARDS.” The funds from
this campaign go to the Cardinals Care to help area St. Louis
children.
There is, however, a word
of caution to those looking to
buy a bracelet. Before buying
any bracelets online, make sure
to check which foundation the
money is supporting. Some of
the bracelets are just a scam,
and none of the money sent in
for the purchase actually goes
to a good cause. Purchasers
are encouraged to refrain from
selling and buying bracelets off
eBay because of scams.
An article in the Nov. 28 New
York Post Online Edition said,
“Hereʼs one way to spot fakes:
Theyʼre in colors other than
yellow and sell for more than
$1, the price set by the Lance
Armstrong Foundation.”
The Siyazama Project
Rural craftswomen of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa have created beaded AIDS ribbons, dolls and pins that are sold online
through the National Aids Trust. The money raised benefits
the women directly. Products can be purchased online at
shop.nat.org.uk/shop/browse.zshop.
Target’s “Share Beauty, Spread Hope”
Target created the pink bracelets to raise awareness and
money for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The
bracelets sell in packs of 10 for $10.
The Pink Bracelet Fund
Fans of Melissa Etheridge have created the Pink Bracelet
Fund to support breast cancer research in her honor. She was
diagnosed with breast cancer Oct. 8. The bracelets are pink
and say, “Be Strong, MLE” with two Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbons. Bracelets can be ordered for $5 each by going
to www.thepinkbraceletfund.org/order.
“Sharing the Promise”
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s wristbands
were created to honor a promise made by Nancy Goodman
Brinker to her sister Susan Goodman Komen when she was
diagnosed with breast cancer in 1978. Bracelets sell for
$5 for a packet of five. The money goes to help fund breast
cancer reasearch. Bracelets can be ordered online at www.
efastcom.com/Marketplace/control/giftshopmain.
“Until there’s a cure... Judy” bracelets were created by the
Judy Ride Foundation. Ninety percent of the profits go to the
Breast Health Center in affiliation with the Siteman Cancer
Center, which provides disadvantaged women in St. Louis with
access to mammograms. Bracelets are $2 each and can be
ordered online at www.judyride.com.
LIVESTRONG
Lance Armstrong Foundation provides information and support to young cancer survivors and families. Proceeds of the
LIVESTRONG bracelets go to benefit the Lance Armstrong
Foundation. The yellow bracelets can be ordered online at
www.laf-store.org.
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