Students Issue $100,000 Challenge to Campus

The student body government at UC Davis says it will match gifts by faculty and staff up to a total of $100,000 to go to a $15.35 million campuswide fund-raising campaign called Students First, which will provide financial support for students. Believed to be the largest contribution from students to any UC campus in the history of the 127-year-old University of California, the funds will be used to endow the Associated Students of UC Davis Scholarship Fund. During half-time at the campus's homecoming football game Saturday, Oct. 21, students will hand a bigger-than-life check to Chancellor Larry N. Vanderhoef, who, along with campus faculty and staff leaders, will accept the challenge with its Dec. 31 deadline. The ceremony will take place about 8 p.m. on Toomey Field at UC Davis. Students First is a campuswide effort to raise more than $15 million for student support, including scholarships, fellowships, grants, research assistantships, low-interest loans and student enrichment programs. Nearly $11 million has been raised since October 1993.