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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Thursday, Nov. 14, 1985
KU to launch drive to raise MS money
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
Students at the University of Kansas and 149 other schools across the country this month are launching a campaign to "Bust MS," which will culminate in a concert for one of the schools, the chairman for KU Students Against Multiple Sclerosis said.
Steve Vogel, Topeka junior and chairman of SAMS, said Tuesday that a campaign to raise awareness and money for multiple sclerosis would begin this month and gain momentum until a grand fundraising event was held in February.
Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease that usually occurs in people between the ages of 18 and 34. It can affect coordination, vision, hearing and speech and may result in paralysis. No cause or cure is known, and 200 new cases are reported each week in the United States.
Pat Mamchah, education director of KU Students Against Multiple Sclerosis; Steve Vogel, chairman; and Colby Hall, executive vice chairman, laugh at a
At two money-raising events in February, he said, students will dress up like rock stars they resemble, and the audience will vote for its favorite contestants.
The Rock Alike Event, a rock star look-alike competition, is the key element of the SAMS campaign, Vogel said.
In the final competition, the 5-10 contestants who receive the most
votes in the first two events will lip-sync to rock songs.
in September, Vogel attended a conference in Miami to help launch the national SAMS campaign. The conference brought together 150 students from universities around the country who were interested in becoming chairmen for SAMS on their campuses.
On Oct. 29, the students appeared in a short spot on the opening Faces segment of ABC's Good Morning America show.
Vogel said the five-day conference was hard work, but a lot of fun.
"I had a really charged up week," he said. "When I saw how electrifying the Rock Alike Event was, I was convinced it could work at KU."
Tammy Stude/Special to the KANSAN
All the colleges with SAMS campaigns will have a Rock Alike contest in February, Vogel said. The campus that raises the most money will receive a concert which will be broadcast on MTV: Music Television. MTV also will sponsor a lip-synching competition between the Rock Alike winners from eight regions of the country.
The first step of the SAMS campaign was the conference in Miami, which was sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and included seminars in leadership development, fund raising, public relations and recruitment.
The society billed the campaign as business training besides a good cause, Vogel said.
"This is a massive thing that people can put in their portfolios," he said. "We're giving the society all the money for our work, but we're getting something back. It's not monetary, but we're getting something."
He said the campaign was organized similar to a corporation, so students would gain business experience. He has recruited 10 other students to serve on a board of directors.
At a board meeting last night, almost all of the students said they were involved in the program to gain experience.
question during a 'group dynamics' exercise. The three KU students discuss, plan for the newly organized SAMS campaign yesterday.
"Let's be honest," said Colby Hall, Overland Park sophomore and executive vice chairman. "We're all here because it's a good resume filler."
However, the students also said they wanted to benefit multiple sclerosis.
"At first it was just a resume filler," said Mary Slaney, Wichita
junior who is working on public relations. "But I know I'm going to learn a lot about MS and help people who have MS."
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