UCLA SAEs Have Been Going Out Of Their Way To Help Uplift 12-Year-Old Cancer Patient
SAE has had one hell of a bad showing lately. With chapters hitting the front page of various news outlets weekly for seemingly idiotic incidents, the boys up at SAE HQ must be quite happy to see this story pop up yesterday.
UCLA’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter house is located directly across the street from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Several nights ago, a few SAE brothers noticed a sign in one of the hospital windows. The sign was created by 12-year-old Lexi Brown, a Santa Barbara resident who was airlifted to the hospital last week after the chemotherapy she was receiving caused her heart to fail.
The sign made one simple request: a pizza delivery. SAE jumped on the opportunity to brighten this girl’s day and even stepped up their game to include a private concert in her hospital room.
Here's a quick snippet from the video that Lexi's father sent us. Words cannot describe how we feel right now. pic.twitter.com/O8LBqHFoH6
— California Delta ΣAE (@UCLA_SAE) November 5, 2015
From CBS Los Angeles:
“You know, one of our creeds is being a true gentleman, and that’s following through and making sure that we can do everything we can,” said Christian Wehrly, an SAE fraternity member.
The SAEs didn’t feel as though they had done enough, though. Seeing a helpless 12-year-old fighting for her life against the devil that is cancer brings out the deepest forms of compassion. To complete their small gestures of kindness, the brothers spelled in lights the young girl’s name on the roof of their house. Every time she looks out the window now, she sees her name illuminated from the top of the SAE chapter house.
“So, they had me turn around and look at the lights, and I saw my name on the roof,” Lexi said. “I thought it was really cool. I didn’t think that that would ever happen.”
The chapter said that although Lexi is scheduled to return home this week, her name will remain on their roof throughout the holidays.
A GoFundMe has been set up to assist Lexi’s family with her medical bills. If you’d like to check it out, click HERE.
Keep up that fight, Lexi. We’re all behind you..
[via CBS Los Angeles]
You’ll never see this on a major news network.
10 years ago at 9:35 amStop with the self victimization. Every time there’s a good thing posted like this, someone has to comment this. It’s getting fucking old. Lap me all you want, we don’t do things like this to get recognized. Good things don’t get reported for anyone at all because it doesn’t sell. Not just fraternities. Let’s just celebrate and support good deeds instead of whining about recognition.
10 years ago at 9:44 amAgreed 100%. It isn’t even genuine self victimization, either. It’s all for up-votes and the pursuit of top comment.
10 years ago at 10:00 amI agree with this comment in general. However, the, even if disingenuous, should be taken in context. When media outlets report on scandals with SAE, they place it in the context of every scandal involving SAE over the past decade. Rather than taking these incidents by different people at different times as isolated, they insinuate a systematic pattern of abhorrent behavior. I believe that, if outlets insist on this method, they owe a duty to the viewers to report the entire story.
In summary, if the story of SAE is to be told as a continuous one over the past decade, then stories like this should be reported as part of the facts of that story. If news outlets would choose to present each story as individual stories, then they would have no obligation to do so and the complaint of unfairness would be misplaced.
Having said all of that, the mark of a true fraternity man is one who will contribute to his community in the face of thanklessness and slander.
10 years ago at 10:22 amThe idea behind my comment was just that the fact that nothing about SAE in the news has been good recently at least on the national stage and I was acknowledging that even if this was brought up it would probably be spun in a negative way or at least past issues would still be brought up. It wasn’t so much self-victimization as just stating that the continued negative press fraternity’s get could very well deter potential new members which is never good and if something like this would brought up it would encourage more people to at least go out for rush week and we can get the best men possible for every fraternity we can and continue with as much good as possible and limit all the negative as much as we can.
10 years ago at 10:36 am10/10
Real men don’t do it so that people recognize them. That’s what Obama,Black Lives Matter, Liberals, and women do. Take the example of the silent soldiers, the Navy SEALs
10 years ago at 5:16 pmBased on the thumbnail I’d say it was shown on a news network
10 years ago at 10:08 am*major, meaning national; this was local
10 years ago at 10:11 amOh come on, I’m all for promoting good stories but if you honestly think that a major national news network is going to run a story that has this limited of a scope you’re insane
10 years ago at 10:14 amKeep up the good work
10 years ago at 9:38 amI’m sure SAE will make headlines on CNN for this.
10 years ago at 2:29 pm@CNN
10 years ago at 9:50 amStop it buddy
10 years ago at 12:33 pmPhi Alpha
10 years ago at 9:54 amDoing good and promoting a good image. Hell yeah, great job SAE
10 years ago at 10:00 amcheck out the gofundme page. 12,000 dollars in 4 days jesus christ
10 years ago at 10:00 amGood job boys
10 years ago at 10:01 amCue the libtards getting mad for no apparent reason
10 years ago at 10:15 amwarms my heart. phi alpha, brothers.
10 years ago at 10:18 amThat was actually a super uplifting story. In this anti fraternity world that we live in, it warms the cockles of my jaded old heart to see stuff like this.
10 years ago at 10:29 am