The men's lacrosse team will help collect can tabs at various locations around campus until April 18.
Men's Lacrosse to Collect Can Tabs for Charity
2/14/2008 11:07:01 AM | Men's Lacrosse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The Orange men’s lacrosse team and the Syner-Cuse student marketing group from the University’s sports management program have joined forces to start a can tab program to benefit the Ronald McDonald House.
The team spent time during winter break putting together collection boxes/”houses” and received help from Syner-Cuse in distributing them throughout campus. Fans are encouraged to bring their aluminum soda and beer can tabs to Gate B of the Carrier Dome where they will be collected during each home game. Collection boxes will also be placed in University dining halls, cafés, various campus office buildings, and in many of the stores on Marshall Street by Feb. 15.
The team and its Syner-Cuse affiliates have reached out to the Greek Community at SU and will be receiving assistance from the majority of the fraternities on campus, who in turn will be awarded community service hours for their efforts. Some SU sororities have also expressed interest in the program.
The can tab program will run through Friday, April 18 when the Orange squares off against Albany at the Dome. The tabs on campus will be collected prior to the game and be presented to the Ronald McDonald House at halftime.
The local Ronald McDonald House Chapter will bring the tabs to local recycling centers, where they are weighed to determine their value. The recycling center then sends the chapter a check for the total value of the collected tabs. One pound of tabs is worth 57 cents, and one gallon of tabs (4,175 tabs) is worth $1.49.
To date, more than 400 million tabs have been collected, generating more than $4 million.
The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities is to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children. It was founded in 1984, a decade after Dr. Audrey Evans and Philadelphia Eagles’ tight end Fred Hill, whose daughter had leukemia, opened the first Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia.
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