Wayne State College’s President’s Philomathean Honor Society held their annual Pie-A-Professor fundraiser on April 15 in the Kanter Student Center atrium.
For this fundraiser, students, faculty and staff were able to vote the week before the actual pieing event. Voting was in the Kanter Student Center April 8, 13 and 17 and in the Conn Library April 9 and 14.
“We are raising money,” club president Emma Wray said. “There are five professors who are involved, and whoever raises the most money, that’s the professor who is going to be pied.”
The professors in the running were club advisor and political science professor Jenny Miller, criminal justice professor Rachel Kunz, education professor Ben Vilkas, history professor Brian Trump and science professor Michael Mutehart.
The professor who got pied was Rachel Kunz.
“Fundraising is always an important part of student groups and making sure that they get to do the activities that are fun for them,” Kunz said, “and it just seemed like a fun event, and Jenny [Miller] was doing it, too. So why not?”
Students were able to vote via the cups at the tables in either the Student Center or in the Library. They could vote via cash or Venmo. In total, the group raised about $38 for future club activities.
“I feel at least 10% sweeter,” Kuntz said after being pied.
According to the WSC website, “Philomatheans consists of WSC’s most distinguished students to be the trusted keepers of tradition, instigators of thought, catalysts of student camaraderie and strong supporters of the intellectual enterprise of Wayne State College.”
The group meets once a month with the president of the college. They help with homecoming, graduation, and other similar events.
“We also do other events on campus,” Wray said, “we’re doing this fundraising, and then, we also just help out with other issues on campus, and we bring those up to the president.”
