RSO displays bras for cancer awareness

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Dozens of bras decorating the University Center courtyard isn’t the typical registered student organization promotion.

Colleges Against Cancer, the RSO responsible for organizing the annual Relay for Life on campus, created the display in an effort to raise awareness.

“It’s something you don’t see every day. It’s a funny way of talking about breast cancer,” said Allison Balow, a Traverse City senior and CAC President.

October is breast cancer awareness month, making the noticeable exhibit just one of many that can be found around campus and in the community as students rally together to spread the word about it.

“Breast cancer is such a big issue in our country right now,” said Auburn senior and Relay For Life Event Chair Meagan Kravat. “It affects so many people and so many lives.”

Michelle Nemmers and Emma Robertson, who were standing next to the banner this afternoon, agree the display gets your attention.

“I thought it was funny and creative,” Robertson said.

The bras were donated to Colleges Against Cancer over past years, Balow said, and will be up until Friday afternoon.

The group has planned a fundraiser for Oct. 27 at Tropical Smoothie Café, where 15 percent of all proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society to continue to raise awareness.

This is not the last of the demonstrations geared toward cancer in the coming weeks, but it’s one that does a nice job of letting it all hang out and making us think, Kravat said.

“(When it comes to cancer) you don’t know how much it affects you until it affects you,” Kravat said.