Many members of the University community will be participating in the 10th annual New Jersey Race for the Cure — a day of races to raise money for the cure for cancer — on Sunday.
The University student group Princeton Against Cancer Together has been active in organizing Princeton support for the event. PACT had sign-ups for the race in Frist Campus Center this week.
The Breast Cancer Resource Center of the YWCA Princeton will host the race at Bristol-Myers Squibb headquarters off Route 206 in Princeton Township.
More than 25,000 people are expected to participate in the day's activities, which begin at 7 a.m.
Jessica Brondo '04, a member of PACT's executive committee, was unsure of the total number of University members that had signed up to participate in the event.
The group plans on providing bus transportation to the race site, which is several miles away. Buses will leave at 10 a.m. on Sunday morning from Frist. Students who signed up through PACT will be participating in the 11:15 a.m. coed five-kilometer walk.
A number of campus groups including the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will be participating in the race.
"Kappa basically encourages all our members to participate in Race for the Cure, publicizes it, and some of our members help out by sitting at the PACT booth in Frist," Brondo, who is also a member of Kappa, said in an email.
She said about 30 members of the sorority signed up to go to the race. Historically, though, the University has had trouble getting people to participate because the race coincided with fall break.
"However, in the years before [last year's event], the Race for the Cure event in Princeton took place over our fall break, so there were a couple of people who participated, but most were not in Princeton, and were unable to participate," she said in an email.
With such a draw of supporters including University students, race organizers hope to raise about $1.3 million through the event.
During the past nine years, the New Jersey race has raised more than $5 million for the fight against breast cancer, said Tom Fogg, a member of the Breast Cancer Resource Center.
The New Jersey Race for the Cure is part of a national Race for the Cure program. Started in Dallas, Texas, Race for the Cure is an annual event in places around the country now going into its 20th year.
Seventy-five percent of the proceeds from the race will fund grant programs for breast cancer diagnostics, treatment, awareness and educational programs within New Jersey for the medically underserved.
The remaining portion of the money will be donated to the National Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation — a volunteer organization composed largely of breast cancer survivors — for medical research.
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