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The Eve Carson Memorial 5K for Education has been held each year since the former student body president’s death in 2008. The race raises money for the junior-year scholarship that was a goal of hers while in office and was established after her death. The race is co-sponsored by the UNC chapters of Pi Beta Phi sorority and Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Several hundred people run in the race each year, which raised about $15,000 in 2010.
Members of the campus community will celebrate what would have been former Student Body President Eve Carson’s 26th birthday on Saturday by raising money for a cause she was passionate about.
Six months from now, the last class of students to know former Student Body President Eve Carson will graduate. At 10 a.m. on Nov. 6, the Eve Carson Memorial 5K for Education will aim to make sure her legacy does not end on graduation day. Cosponsored by the UNC chapters of Pi Beta Phi sorority and Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Saturday’s race will mark the third year of the annual Eve Carson Memorial 5K for Education.
Many of the 1,500 participants at the Eve Carson Memorial 5K for Education on Saturday had never met the former UNC student body president the event is named for.
But afterward, runners said they felt connected to her nonetheless.
Last year’s Eve Carson Memorial 5K for Education was nothing short of a celebration. And on Saturday, the celebration will continue.“I remember laughing more than anything in the race,” said junior Hogan Medlin, who ran in last year’s 5K. “It felt like there were thousands of people there, and when we all began, it was just this big hoorah. It was extremely uplifting.”
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