Illinois Wesleyan hosts ‘All in for Wesleyan’ day

Posted on April 5, 2017

Illinois Wesleyan University hosted a blacklight dance party for students at Hansen Student Center on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy Facebook/IWU)

By Eric Stock

BLOOMINGTON – It’s ‘All in for Wesleyan’ Wednesday on the Illinois Wesleyan campus.

Director of the Wesleyan fund Beth Keegan told WJBC’s Scott Laughlin and Patti Penn the fifth annual event kicked off on Tuesday with a blacklight dance party for students and today will includes games and a trivia contest while the school reaches out to the Wesleyan community through email, social media and by phone to request donations.

“The day is all about celebrating everything great that’s going on at Illinois Wesleyan,” Keegan said. “We encourage alumni, parents, faculty, staff and even our seniors to give back to the university today to continue to move it forward.”

The university has a goal to raise $200, 000, as alum Dorothea Bilder has promised to match up to $100,000.

Wesleyan canceled a pancake eating contest after news that a college student in Connecticut died after choking on a pancake during a contest last week.

Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].

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