UC Students Organize Hair-Cutting Event To Make Wigs For Women Fighting Cancer

The UC student organization, Colleges Against Cancer is organizing a

simultaneous hair-cutting event that happens at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, May 19, in the Great Hall of Tangeman University Center (TUC).

Registration is underway to participate in the hair-cutting campaign to create real-hair wigs for women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment.

Online registration for the University of Cincinnati Beautiful Lengths Campaign

is open to the UC community and the public.

Beautiful Lengths is a partnership between Pantene and the American Cancer Society to encourage people to donate 8 inches of their hair so that Pantene can turn it into free, real-hair wigs for women with cancer.

Marissa Carducci, a fourth-year accounting student from Toronto, Ohio, member of Colleges Against Cancer and Beautiful Lengths participant, explains that it takes four ponytails to create one wig. She says the event officially gets underway at 1 p.m., the hair-cutting takes place at 1:30 p.m., and then volunteer stylists will assist in completing the donors’ shorter-haired look through 4 p.m.

Mary Beth Hall, a cancer survivor and author of the book, “Lessons from a Bald Chick,” will be a guest speaker at the event. Hall, a native of northern Kentucky, is a high school guidance counselor and founder of Bald Chick Ministry, which donates proceeds from her book to individuals and organizations battling cancer.

Donor hair for the Beautiful Lengths Campaign must be free of permanent color, bleach or other chemical treatments and must be no more than five percent gray.

The event is also sponsored by Student Government.

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