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Sororities compete in karaoke contest for charity
Emily Pollack
Issue date: 4/17/07 Section: News
High-pitched screaming and booty-shaking filled the stage as women from different sororities belted out renditions of songs ranging from Sisqo's "The Thong Song" to Gwen Stefani's "Holla Back Girl."
Sigma Alpha Epsilon hosted "SAE What Karaoke?" at Mitchell Hall April 11 as part of Paddy Murphy, the annual week-long competition among sororities that raises money for charity.
The event, fashioned after the popular MTV show, featured trios from seven sororities - Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Xi Delta, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Gamma and Sigma Kappa - facing off in three rounds of competition.
The rounds consisted of a song each group prepared, followed by spinning "the Wheel of Doom" to select a song at random to sing and finally a lightning round, in which the DJ played a series of song clips the two finalists had to sing.
SAE members sophomore Jason Singer and senior Nick Alarif entertained the crowd as the event's emcees, while graduate student Jason Cohen, known as DJ Demand, kept the theater booming with pop rock hits. Ryan Cormier, a reporter for The News Journal, singer Kristen Kwolek from the band Kristen and the Noise and DJ Tom Travers judged the competition on creativity, energy and accuracy.
"I think it's great that they're taking the time to put an event together to help children and support a cause," Kwolek said. "A lot of times young people don't get involved. They think the world is going to fix itself."
All proceeds support the top-ranking Children's Hospital of Philadelphia through the Children's Miracle Network, a non-profit organization that raises funds and awareness for 170 children's hospitals throughout North America.
Sarah Seredych, program coordinator for CMN at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said the funds raised will primarily go to patient care programs and social work programs.
"They're not buying incubators, they're not buying IV's and CAT scan equipment," she said. "We're more about family-centered care."
Sigma Alpha Epsilon hosted "SAE What Karaoke?" at Mitchell Hall April 11 as part of Paddy Murphy, the annual week-long competition among sororities that raises money for charity.
The event, fashioned after the popular MTV show, featured trios from seven sororities - Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Xi Delta, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Gamma and Sigma Kappa - facing off in three rounds of competition.
The rounds consisted of a song each group prepared, followed by spinning "the Wheel of Doom" to select a song at random to sing and finally a lightning round, in which the DJ played a series of song clips the two finalists had to sing.
SAE members sophomore Jason Singer and senior Nick Alarif entertained the crowd as the event's emcees, while graduate student Jason Cohen, known as DJ Demand, kept the theater booming with pop rock hits. Ryan Cormier, a reporter for The News Journal, singer Kristen Kwolek from the band Kristen and the Noise and DJ Tom Travers judged the competition on creativity, energy and accuracy.
"I think it's great that they're taking the time to put an event together to help children and support a cause," Kwolek said. "A lot of times young people don't get involved. They think the world is going to fix itself."
All proceeds support the top-ranking Children's Hospital of Philadelphia through the Children's Miracle Network, a non-profit organization that raises funds and awareness for 170 children's hospitals throughout North America.
Sarah Seredych, program coordinator for CMN at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said the funds raised will primarily go to patient care programs and social work programs.
"They're not buying incubators, they're not buying IV's and CAT scan equipment," she said. "We're more about family-centered care."
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