By: Cali Kees Follow @calikees

This past Tuesday, the Student Programming Board held its ninth annual St. Baldrick’s event, raising over $7,700 and counting, and featuring 20 participants who chose to “brave the shave.”

“This is our one philanthropic event that SPB gets to do each year.  So it’s definitely one of our more well-known ones, one of our, like, traditional events so I think it’s definitely one of the ones we are most proud of putting on each year,” SPB Traditions and Community Chair Isabella Zaccardi said.

While each shavee was greeted with an applause walking off the stage, the real wow moment was when they saw their head for the first time.

“My friend took a Snapchat of me….showed it to me and I was like, I was wowed,” sophomore shavee Cameron Doyle said. “I have not gotten a buzzcut like this since maybe I was in third grade,”

Quinnipiac students are not the only ones who recognized the impact and importance of this event.

Mother and daughter pair Mary and Erin Hatt are New Haven residents that together wanted to make a difference.

“I signed up for it, I said I’m going to shave my head.  I didn’t even ask my boss and then I was like wait, maybe I should ask her and then she says (looking at Mary) “I’m gonna do it, I wanna do it,” Erin Hatt said.

She expressed how excited her mother was to join her in shaving her head for a good cause.

“She’s been in it since day one, she’s been so excited,” Erin Hatt said.

The shavee’s weren’t the only ones who walked into the event feeling excited while leaving feeling proud as the barbers of Classic Cutz in Hamden volunteer each year to shave the heads of Quinnipaic’s St. Baldricks participants.

The shavee’s weren’t the only ones who walked into the event feeling excited while leaving feeling proud as the barbers of Classic Cutz in Hamden volunteer each year to shave the heads of Quinnipaic’s St. Baldricks participants.

“I like to give back to the community especially in Connecticut,” Javieer Colan, owner of Classic Cutz said. “I like to volunteer for it, you know, that way people will know what’s the feeling of having cancer and what they go through.”