CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 1, 1983
TKE barrel roll raises money for St. Jude's
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Representatives from Tau Kappa Epsilon's national chapter are rolling the barrel from Minneapolis to New Orleans for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. Temporarily, though, the Kansas Highway Patrol flattened their suids.
The TKEs are rolling an aluminum beer keg as a symbol to promote the fraternity's efforts in the Midwest to raise money for St. Jude's in Memphis, Tenn. The TKE representatives drive slowly, on the shoulders of the road, to call attention to their crusade.
St. Jude's conducts basic and clinical research in children's diseases. The group began at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to raise money for research at the hospital.
OUTSIDE TOPEKA yesterday, the TKE van was traveling on Interstate Highway 70 at about five miles per hour, with one of the group pushing the keg ahead of the van on a 4-foot metal axle. But a Kansas highway patrolman appeared in the rear-view mirror.
The keg wasn't open and they
weren't getting a speeding ticket, either.
"They told us that even though we were on the shoulder we had to either drive at a normal speed or stop," said Mark Wood, a senior from Central Baptist University. "Okay, Driving to Lawrence, the key rollers had to load up the keg.
"It was weird," Wood said. "I've never been stopped for going too slowly before. We had to actually normal speed from Topeka to Lawrence."
1ms is the fifth annual "TKE Keg Roll." The fraternity representatives rolled the keg from New Orleans to Milwaukee last year. This year's tour set 12 and will visit more than 80 TKE chapters throughout the Midwest.
ASIDE FROM THE incident in Kansas, Wood said, the group has experienced little trouble in its 655-mile journey. The group will have visited six of the Big Eight universities and it reaches New Orleans on Dec. 28.
The group of TKE members, from various schools around the United States, and their keg visited the KU chapter of the fraternity yesterday.
Their van is splashed with advertisements for a national brewery.
"We wanted to take the negative image of the beer keg away," said
Scott Krall, a senior from Gannon University at Pittsburgh.
"Danny Thomas, the comedian who has given so much time and money to St. Jude's, came to our national headquarters in Indianapolis and sold it as our beer money." Mr. Mire gave us $2,000 to underwrite the trio," he said.
The Miller Brewing Co. is paying the group's expenses in exchange for promotion.
THE KU TKE chapter, 1911 Stewart Ave., raised $500 for St. Jude's by selling "I Hate K-State" hats during the week of the KU/Kansas State football game earlier this month.
The KU chapter also threw a party at Bottoms Up, 715 Massachusetts St., last night. Half of the $1 cover charge will be given to St. Jude's.
The fraternity hopes to raise $150,000 by rolling the keg. But not all of the donations have come from TKE events.
"We had one lady who stopped us in Marysville. She gave us $20 in memory of her son, who died of heart disease. He had been treated at St. Jude's."
The runners were selected partly on athletic ability. The keg weighs 38 pounds. "Thank God we don't have to drive over to push the thing," Wood said.
Representatives from Tau Kappa Epsilon's national chapter roll a beer keg through the KU TKE house parking lot. They are rolling it from Minneapolis to New Orleans to raise funds for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. The people pictured are, left to right, Jay Burleson, University of Indiana; Scott Krall, Gannon University in Pennsylvania; Tom Doll, University of Akron in Ohio; John Murphy, University of Georgia; and Mark Wood, Central State University in Oklahoma.
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