OPS Gives Money to Charity
Omicron Pi Sigma (OPS), the dorm men’s club, donated $2,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation after several spring fundraisers.
The idea for raising money for charity started when OPS bought a big screen television for the dorm. “Many people said that we should be giving that money away for a good cause and to help someone,” said Brian Meert, 1999-2000 OPS president and junior theology major from California.
When the club considered what organization to contribute to, it was an easy choice for Meert. His brother, who dreamed of being an astronaut, died of leukemia. Before his death, the Make-A-Wish Foundation sent Meert’s brother, sister, and mother to a space camp in Alabama to learn about becoming an astronaut.
“I knew that what they did really made a difference in his life, and I just wanted to do what we could to help someone else’s dream come true,” Meert says.
OPS raised $2,000 thanks in part to the success of the date auction, a fundraiser in which 20 men from the dorm were auctioned in groups of four. The men took the woman or women with the highest bid on a date costing no more than $100. The date auction raised more than $1,000.
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