Parents look to luck
Raffle winners will cruise the Meditteranean
Andy Buss
Issue date: 10/30/08 Section: News
One lucky couple will take a two-week Mediterranean cruise next summer for only $300, the cost of a raffle ticket to be drawn at the spring 2009 Parent Weekend.
Proceeds from the raffle will help fund a new intramural sports building.
"It's just a fun thing for parents," Parent Relations Director Mary Ewers said. "The idea was to benefit the parents and the intramural building at the same time."
She said the Parents Association's "main task" this year is to raise funds for the IM building, as decided by a steering committee.
Ewers' department plans to sell 300 tickets at $300 a piece, she said. That would bring a $59,000 profit, after deducting $31,000 for the cruise tickets.
Sophomore Lindsey Elzinga sold tickets at the most recent Parent Weekend.
"I think it's a good way to raise support for the college," she said. "And in a fun way too."
The raffle winners will receive a room on the cruise ship, roundtrip airfare to Europe, admission to the post-cruise seminar featuring Victor Davis Hanson and $8,000 in cash - to pay for the taxes they'll incur by winning the raffle.
The cruise will take place from July 28 to Aug. 11 next summer. It will visit eight ancient Mediterranean cities, including Istanbul, Athens and Venice.
After acquiring a license from the state to hold a lottery, Ewers said, the association first sold tickets strictly to Hillsdale parents, but now any person 21 years or older can buy a ticket.
"We were selling it for the first time at freshman sendoff," she said. "Then the second time we were selling was at the parents' weekend. Now it's open to anyone. We're going to start selling them at CCAs and things like that."
Elzinga and sophomore Ashlee Stollberg petitioned Ewers for jobs on the cruise.
"We were trying to work out a deal with Mary Ewers to see if we could be servers of something on the cruise," Stollberg said.
Ewers said she couldn't accommodate them, Stollberg said.
"My parents did purchase a ticket," she said. "The odds are 1 in 300, which are pretty good odds."
Proceeds from the raffle will help fund a new intramural sports building.
"It's just a fun thing for parents," Parent Relations Director Mary Ewers said. "The idea was to benefit the parents and the intramural building at the same time."
She said the Parents Association's "main task" this year is to raise funds for the IM building, as decided by a steering committee.
Ewers' department plans to sell 300 tickets at $300 a piece, she said. That would bring a $59,000 profit, after deducting $31,000 for the cruise tickets.
Sophomore Lindsey Elzinga sold tickets at the most recent Parent Weekend.
"I think it's a good way to raise support for the college," she said. "And in a fun way too."
The raffle winners will receive a room on the cruise ship, roundtrip airfare to Europe, admission to the post-cruise seminar featuring Victor Davis Hanson and $8,000 in cash - to pay for the taxes they'll incur by winning the raffle.
The cruise will take place from July 28 to Aug. 11 next summer. It will visit eight ancient Mediterranean cities, including Istanbul, Athens and Venice.
After acquiring a license from the state to hold a lottery, Ewers said, the association first sold tickets strictly to Hillsdale parents, but now any person 21 years or older can buy a ticket.
"We were selling it for the first time at freshman sendoff," she said. "Then the second time we were selling was at the parents' weekend. Now it's open to anyone. We're going to start selling them at CCAs and things like that."
Elzinga and sophomore Ashlee Stollberg petitioned Ewers for jobs on the cruise.
"We were trying to work out a deal with Mary Ewers to see if we could be servers of something on the cruise," Stollberg said.
Ewers said she couldn't accommodate them, Stollberg said.
"My parents did purchase a ticket," she said. "The odds are 1 in 300, which are pretty good odds."
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