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Warren students participate in cancer fund-raiser

Willy Macedo (front) was named 2017 Big Man on Campus in a Trine University fund-raiser for the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer. Additional participants were (back, from left) Cody Reer, Adam Miller,  Jeff Bowman, Warren resident and third place finisher Braydon Poulson, O’Shea Owens, Warren resident and second place finisher Cam Buzzard and Victor Riedman.
Willy Macedo (front) was named 2017 Big Man on Campus in a Trine University fund-raiser for the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer. Additional participants were (back, from left) Cody Reer, Adam Miller, Jeff Bowman, Warren resident and third place finisher Braydon Poulson, O’Shea Owens, Warren resident and second place finisher Cam Buzzard and Victor Riedman. Photo provided.

Cameron Buzzard and Braydon Poulson, both of Warren, were among the eight male students at Trine University, in Angola, who took part in the 17th annual Big Man On Campus event at the university.

The event included a pageant that took place on Feb. 10, at the end of a week of activities sponsored by Trine University’s chapter of Theta Phi Alpha sorority. It raised more than $11,000 for the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer, more than twice the amount raised last year.

Buzzard, a junior majoring in exercise science, placed second in the pageant. Poulson, a junior majoring in civil engineering, came in third.

A junior from Elkhart, Willy Macedo, came in first.

The week’s activities included Penny Wars, which saw each contestant decorating a milk jug and trying to get it filled with as much money as possible throughout the week.

War Night had each participant competing in a high-heeled obstacle course, dizzy bat race, three-legged race, tug of war and jump rope competition.

During the pageant, contestants were judged on formal wear, pick-up line, talent, hero and question and answer.