By Carol Gachiengo
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 3, 1997

Fright night food drive flops

Movie-goers who watched the "The Shining" midnight shows at Gallagher Theatre last weekend got the chance to feed someone hungrier than Jack Nicholson.

Some customers had a dollar knocked off admission to the Halloween-night thriller if they contributed to a food drive that collected about 30 cans of non-perishable food for the Tucson Community Food Bank.

"It was a little disappointing," said Katy Saxer of Alpha Phi Omega, the service group that sponsored the drive.

"This is the first time we have had a food drive," she added. "It wasn't what we had hoped for, but it's better than nothing."

The Tucson Community Food Bank is a nonprofit organization that gathers food donations and distributes 25,000 meals a day, 16,000 of which go to children.

Alpha Phi Omega is a coed national service fraternity with chapters on more than 300 college campuses.

"We sponsor and participate in projects to benefit the community, " Saxer said. Other projects include keeping up a mile of Interstate 10 and helping out at Casa de Los Niños from time to time.

The group meets every Sunday at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Student Union's Cactus Lounge.