{"id":2383,"date":"2014-10-14T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2014-10-21T16:15:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:15:49","slug":"wabash-men-have-fun-time-for-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2014\/10\/14\/wabash-men-have-fun-time-for-good-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash Men Have Fun Time for Good Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/0MRAh5UqnqM<\/p>\n<p><em>Howard W. Hewitt<\/em> &#8211; Wabash leadership, faculty and staff take their jobs very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Wabash students obviously take their studies and extra-curricular activities seriously.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2385\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/Corey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2385\" alt=\"Corey\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/Corey.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But at times we lament that we just don&#8217;t have enough fun. While that is arguably not true, we know there is always fun lurking around the next corer. A social media\/pop music fad that started in Kentucky has swept the nation. So the long story made short is a group of fraternity men at <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/s2YHHIOocxs\" target=\"_blank\">Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., set the bar really high with a no-edit lip-sync<\/a> of Taylor Swift&#8217;s hit &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/nfWlot6h_JM\" target=\"_blank\">Shake it Off.<\/a>&#8221; By the way, that pop hit has more than 170 million views on YouTube. The Transylvania guys are nearing a quarter million views. The initial video challenged visitors to donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society\/<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2386\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/Nate.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2386\" alt=\"Nate\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/Nate.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those Transylvania Delta Sigma Chi gentlemen really started something. The Challenge was created to get other colleges involved to raise awareness of a good cause. Colleges across the nation are now dancing to #CollegeShakeOff and #ShakeItUp. Students at Indiana University\/Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/gyN9jXCk0fM\" target=\"_blank\"> danced to the Swift hit <\/a>and challenged IU, Purdue and Wabash College. The Jaguars wanted to raise suicide awareness.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2388\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/Austin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2388\" alt=\"Myers\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/10\/Austin.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So when Wabash men are challenged, they answer the call. The craze came to our attention in the Communications and Marketing office. We turned it totally over to students Corey Egler &#8217;15 and Nathan Bode &#8217;16. Those two deserve all the credit along with videographer Austin Myers &#8217;16.<\/p>\n<p>They managed to talk students, faculty, and staff into dancing for the video. Oh, and their is a brief cameo by one administrator you might recognize. The Wabash men decided to raise awareness for Men&#8217;s Health &#8211; something of a tradition at Wabash during <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Movember\" target=\"_blank\">Movember<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Serious fun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/0MRAh5UqnqM Howard W. Hewitt &#8211; Wabash leadership, faculty and staff take their jobs very seriously. Wabash students obviously take their studies and extra-curricular activities seriously. 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