Students showcase talent at fraternity’s annual fundraiser event
The Tau Kappa Epsilon Sweetheart event last Saturday, March 29, raised $200 this year, according to junior and TKE Social Chair, Erik Radermacher. The event showcased the talent of many KSC women who were trying out to be the fraternity’s next ‘Sweetheart,” also in efforts to raise money for TKE’s national philanthropy, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
“We do this event every year and it’s one of our biggest fundraisers. Our goal is to raise money,” TKE member Drayton Graca said. “To raise that money we ask everybody to come out and we ask for donations. We have a bunch of different girls try out for different categories, including talent.” According to Graca, the event raised double the amount that was made last year.
Radermacher commented on why the funds may have increased. “I think we were more public this year about accepting donations. Also, we had more publicity because we created a Facebook page early on, which got people’s attention,” Radermacher said. “Next year we are looking to get around four-hundred dollars,” Graca said. According to Graca, the talent is judged by five TKE members based on originality, audience response and overall delivery.
Brittany Ballantyne / Administrative Executive Editor: Various KSC women showcased their talents in efforts to become the next TKE Sweetheart, as well as raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
The TKE Sweetheart winner is “featured on our composite, which is a picture of all our members,” Graca said. Winner Ashley Waterman, a member of Phi Sigma Sigma, wore a “gangster outfit” and performed “a rap all about the brothers, that was pretty funny,” Graca said. Radermacher said Waterman’s performance stuck out because she, “got a really positive audience response and loud cheers. She was very comfortable being on stage,” he said. Graca commented on another performance. “Kelsey Sobe [Sobestanovich] did a powerpoint about TKE and it was a play off of the story If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, but instead it was If You Give a TKE a Camera and it was basically poking fun at all of us and she put embarrassing selfies we had taken as her slides,” Graca said.
Sobestanovich, who is a member of Delta Phi Epsilon, was runner-up beside Phi Sigma Sigma member Emily Yepez, who performed a gymnastics routine.
Kenzie Travers can be contacted at mtravers@keene-equinox.com
