Faculty – notice some extra growth on fellas’ faces lately?
Or girls – do your cheeks sense that your boyfriend’s 5 o’clock shadow has grown in and is now a second-week scruff?
That’s because the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is spearheading an original event known as the Mustache Bash where male students are encouraged to come sporting their best attempt at some lip lint.
Senior John Caplin, a member of Lambda, who had the idea to hold Mustache Bash, said the event’s primary role is to raise money for a local charity, the National Sports Center for the Disabled.
“The NSCD is just a great charity,” said Caplin. “Over 7,000 disabled participants go through the program each year and we’re extremely excited to be given the opportunity to help them out as much as we can.”
For more than 30 years, this Denver-based charity has taken physically or developmentally disabled children and adults to various terrains including cliffs, trails, rivers and ski slopes.
According to the organization’s Web site, this is done so that participants can “learn more about mountain sports – and themselves,” as they follow the motto, “no mountain too high.”
With help and donations from many campus organizations, ranging from other Greek houses to the AUSA Senate and the Ritchie Center, Caplin has generated buzz on campus about the fundraiser.
“We have already received a number of donations from many campus groups and clubs and have now extended out to the surrounding community for even more support,” said Caplin.
Caplin explained, “We were originally hoping to raise $5,000 for the charity, but should now do that very easily. Our new goal is $10,000.”
Caplin hopes the media bash become an annual occurrence.
“My hope is that I am able to set something up for the future,” he said. “I realize that it’s a gradual process, but I would love to come back 20 years from now and see that the event is still growing larger and larger each year.”
Caplin added, “With such active help, from the donations from student organizations to free Jumbo-tron advertisements from the school to the off-campus community’s willingness to support us, I think the event definitely has a shot at reoccurring.”
The bash itself will take place at the Gothic Theatre located at 3263 S. Broadway on Thursday, March 3. Two bands will perform.
DU’s own Kinetix will open for Boogie Machine, which will be performing for a fifth of its normal fee in order to help fundraise.
Tickets are $3 in advance or $5 at the door and can be bought through the Gothic Theatre box office, at www.ticketweb.com, at a booth at this weekend’s hockey games, at a table on Driscoll Bridge all this week or through members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Only 1,000 tickets will be available for this facial fuzz fest.
T-shirts for the event will also be available at the tables or through a member of Lambda for $10 and the money raised through the sale will also go almost entirely to benefit the NSCD.
Furthermore, door prizes and awards for the best mustache will be handed out at the event, as well as raffle drawings. These prizes include a Winter Park Ski Resort package, plus hotel and restaurant gift certificates.
According to Caplin, the Gothic will also have food and drink specials throughout the night as a way to boost ticket sales, proceeds from which benefit the fundraiser.
The ‘stache bash is open to all who are 18 years old and older. IDs are required.
Buses for the event will leave from the Schwader Art Building and doors will open at 8 p.m.. Music starts at 9 p.m.
For more information on the National Sports Center for the Disabled, visit www.nscd.org or speak with one of the members of Lambda Chi Alpha.
Otherwise, support a good cause by purchasing a ticket, strap on your best 70s attire, grow out your wicked whiskers and get ready for some funk!
