Lily Charkow, Asst. Arts & Life Editor–
On Saturday April 13, Kappa Sigma Fraternity held a country music concert to raise funds for their philanthropy, the Military Heroes Campaign. The organization was created to aid wounded military veterans returning from active duty.
The event was held at the Kappa Sigma House, and featured numerous student bands who performed country music hits. Brothers of the Gamma Xi chapter were in attendance as well as students not affiliated with the fraternity. The event brought in students from all over the campus to the Kappa Sigma House.
At 3:00 PM, the brothers of Kappa Sigma kicked off the day with a pink lemonade chug off. They then continued their theme of friendly competition with apple bobbing and a game of dangling donuts. As well as a hot dog eating contest at 6:00 PM. Many students participated in these events and played against their friends. Throughout the event, the fraternity was selling t-shirts to fundraise for the Military Heroes Campaign. Also, Kappa Sigma provided students with barbecue food throughout the event.
At 8:00 PM, student band The Cuties took to the stage to perform their set. Later on, a visiting band from Cincinnati called The Funky Ducks performed. Attendance was high at the beginning of the event, but waned as the day went on. This is not the first philanthropy event thrown by Kappa Sigma this academic year. Previously, they hosted an event called Pancakes for Patriots. However, philanthropy chair Davidson Jump ‘26 was determined to throw more events in honor of the Military Heroes Campaign.
“I’ve only been in Kappa Sigma since the Spring of last year so I don’t really know the, all the stuff we’ve done in the past. But, from what I understood it wasn’t very extensive, so I kind of wanted to actually make a difference. I feel like we’ve come a long way from where we were.” In the past, philanthropy events thrown by Kappa Sigma have been scarce. Very few brothers were organizing events to fundraise for their philanthropy, but in his position of philanthropy chair Jump decided to create change in his fraternity.
“There wasn’t anybody doing anything about philanthropy. There were a few small scale events, but, you know, the chair itself wasn’t really being utilized to what it’s fully expected to be and so I kind of wanted to make a change to that.”
The event began at 3:00 PM and lasted until 12:00 AM, bringing together many students from the Denison community.
