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NEWS
| April 24
Student Life
Delta Zeta sponsors annual charity
event
The Delta Zeta sorority will hold
the 4th annual Man Show charity event.
By Chris
Piper
The Shorthorn News Editor
Last year, Shane Burke danced in a purple
leotard to Nelly Furtado’s “I’m Like a Bird,”
to win the title of “Mr. All-That” in the Delta Zeta Man
Show.
Sorority members say they expect antics this year and hope for an
even larger turnout for the fourth annual charity event. The show,
which will benefit the speech and hearing impaired, will begin at
7:30 p.m. Friday in the Activities Building Lonestar Auditorium.
Laura Harrison, Delta Zeta’s philanthropy chair, said she expects
more than 150 people to attend the event in which fraternity members
participate in a variety of competitions to be crowned “Mr.
All-That.”
“Most of the guys generally sing a song and act stupid,”
said Harrison, an interdisciplinary studies senior. “The winner
will receive a trophy and a sash. Other than that, they’re
just recognized by the sorority members. If we see them on campus,
we’ll say something to them.”
For the first time, the former winner will return to crown the new
“Mr. All-That.” Burke, who graduated last year, was unavailable
for comment.
“It’s kind of like a Miss America pageant, but with guys,”
Harrison said.
The 15 or 20 fraternity contestants will compete in consecutive
casual wear, pajama wear, talent, formal wear and interview competitions.
Judges will begin to eliminate competitors after the pajama contest,
eventually narrowing the field to one, said Delta Zeta member Lindsey
Jones, an education sophomore.
Tickets are available at the door for $5, and raffle tickets are
also on sale for $1. Prizes include restaurant gift certificates,
go-cart and miniature golf passes and tickets to Hyena’s Comedy
Club.
Harrison said the sorority raised $4,100 last year and hopes to
top $5,000 this year through tickets and raffle sales and the $25
contestant entry fee.
“In years past, we’ve donated to the Delta Zeta Foundation,
which benefits Galludet University, a school catering to hearing-
and speech-impaired students,” she said. “The college
has a dance recital room named after [the sorority], honoring Delta
Zeta’s contributions over the years.”
This year, Harrison said, the sorority will ask for a portion of
the money back from the foundation to give to a local Red Cross
chapter.
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