{"id":63186,"date":"2014-11-21T20:22:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=63186"},"modified":"2019-12-25T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T19:33:54","slug":"ucf-library-staffer-joins-students-shaving-head-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-library-staffer-joins-students-shaving-head-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Library Staffer Joins Students in Shaving Head for a Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Nov. 21, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-students-shave-heads-raise-awareness-money-childhood-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">students shaved their heads<\/a> in an effort to stand in solidarity with children facing cancer. Amanda Richards, senior library technical assistant for the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.ucf.edu\/Rosen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Universal Orlando Foundation Library<\/a> at Rosen College, decided to go under the razor, too. Though a drastic change for some, Richards was inspired to support the students&#8217; efforts for an important cause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is one of the most amazing, rewarding and humbling experiences to have not only children come up to you to ask why you are bald, but to have any number of cancer survivors walk up and thank you or give you a hug and tell you how much it means to them,&#8221; said Richards. &#8220;I also think that as a woman shaving my head bald, it is a very dramatic way to bring awareness to something that most people don\u2019t want to think about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event was coordinated by St. Baldrick\u2019s Knights, a branch of the national volunteer-driven charity St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation, which is dedicated to funding research to find cures for childhood cancer and giving survivors long and healthy lives. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oBMd_CKEyIY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch this short video<\/a> to learn more about their mission.<\/p>\n<p>Richards is fundraising for St. Baldrick&#8217;s Foundation through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbaldricks.org\/participants\/mypage\/738914\/2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal webpage<\/a> and the organization also accepts donations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stbaldricks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Rosen College, please visit hospitality.ucf.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, Nov. 21, students shaved their heads in an effort to stand in solidarity with children facing cancer. 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