Knight-thon Raises More Than $62,000
Campus Involvement, Entertainment, UCF Greek Life — By Staff on March 29, 2010 at 7:02 pmKnight-thon is one of UCF’s largest philanthropic efforts, which takes place yearly on campus to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network; this year, Knight-thon raised more than $62,000. KnightNews.com paid a visit to the old Arena to check out some of the action:
According to the Knight-thon Web site, Knight-Thon is students, student organizations, and community members coming together around a common cause. In this collegiate philanthropy, student teams raise money year round through fundraising events and personal appeals. In the spring, students stand for 13.1 hours to celebrate their fundraising efforts and the kids they are raising money to support. Knight-Thon is UCF students standing for a cause, standing to help their community, standing to help local kids at local hospitals.
The main purpose of Knight-Thon is to raise money and awareness for Children’s Miracle Network. But why do we stand for 13.1 hours? Many of the children who are admitted into our local hospitals go through pain and suffering that most of us cannot even comprehend. The act of staying on our feet for over 13 hours is meant to give participants a greater appreciation and understanding of the struggles these kids go through every day.
Participants are faced with both mental and physical challenges in an effort to support these strong children. Knight-Thon is more than just a philanthropy; it is UCF’s way to stand in support of the brave children being treated at our local Children’s Hospitals. For The Kids We Are!
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Thank you UCF students for another amazing Knight-ton. My daughter Emma and I attended Knight-thon as one of the Children’s Miracle Network families in 2009 and again this year, 2010. You all have done an amazing job and please keep up the great work. We look forward to attending Knight-thon in 2011
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“THEY PUBLISH THEIR PRESS RELEASES ONLINE FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO READ THEM”
So does SGA: http://ucfsga.com/?p=press_release
Nice try though.
No, Obama is a little too busy to send out press releases. The White House, on the other hand, sends press releases out, and THEY PUBLISH THEIR PRESS RELEASES ONLINE FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO READ THEM (http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-and-releases).
Also, I’m pretty sure there’s atleast 1 or 2 other people who are ‘admin’ on KnightNews. I highly doubt 1 person can run this entire site by themselves.
Barack Obama doesn’t send press releases to TMZ now does he?
Appreciation,
Thank you for the feedback. We strive to cover all news important to the UCF community we can — whether it’s good or bad.
When UCF organizations tell us about their positive events, we try and cover them. When people ask us to fight for them when they are being wronged, we try to do that too.
SGA, unfortunately, doesn’t get as much positive coverage because they go out of their way not to tell us about positive things they do. Instead, they seem to try and punish us by sending press releases to our competition and leaving us off the list. SGA staff is ordered not to talk to KnightNews.com, even about positive initiatives like Knight Drive.
If you’d like to see more positive stories, we encourage you to contact SGA to tell them to let us know about their positive stories. We will still cover anything controversial they do, but we would be happy to balance it with positive stories — if they tell us about them.
Thanks again for the feedback, and we’re happy to cover stories like this one you’re reading now.
You guys could completely change your image if you wrote more positive stories like this. Some of you are talented, you just focus on the negative when there are so many positive things going on a UCF. I am glad you wrote this story. However, I do agree with Horatio. The story is so short compared to more controversial topics. Maybe if students were shown the positive things going on a UCF, they would have a greater appreciation for their school. As students, you should strive to change that image. Thats a positive influence that you could actually have a hand in. I hope you will consider that.
On the other hand, the scandalous video was only 2 minutes, and this one is 5.
Spotted. Sareena Helton.
Why are all the scandalous articles 2 pages or more and this article about an amazing thing that UCF students have done is less then half a page