The Chi Omega sorority and the Make-A-Wish Foundation combined efforts to raise more than $4,000 to grant a wish for a terminally ill child Wednesday, hosting an MTV-style “Singled-Out” dating game event.
Members of every fraternity and sorority on campus gathered in Gerlinger 220 for the event, which raised about $1,500 from the 286 tickets sold and about $2,100 from raffle ticket and T-shirt sales. Chi Omega collected more than $400 in a box outside the University Bookstore, sorority member Jessica Lomelin said.
All Chi Omega chapters in the nation join with Make -A-Wish every year to put on a philanthropic event, and it’s up to each individual chapter to choose how they want to raise the money. After raising the funds, the sorority passes them on to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, an organization devoted to granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions.
After the wish is granted, the sorority receives a plaque with a picture of the child who got his or her wish.
Lomelin said last year the sorority joined with Make-A-Wish to host a dance and karaoke competition. The event raised more than $3,500 for a young boy named Morgan, who wished
to have a play structure in his back yard. Using the money raised, Make-A-Wish funded the building of the structure.

This year, the sorority decided on a dating game involving other greek houses on campus.
“We wanted to do something different, something involving the greek system on campus and non-greeks too,” sorority president and pre-journalism major Libby Whittemore said. “We are raising money for a good cause, but we are also making it fun.”
“Singled Out” was a dating show on MTV in the 1990s hosted by Jenny McCarthy and, later, Carmen Electra, where one male or female contestant would pick a suitor from a group of the opposite sex based solely on answers to different personality or physical trait related questions.
The game on Wednesday began with the main male contestant, Theta Chi member Bo Stell, deciding on pre-journalism major Julia Taylor, after she made it all the way through the game’s three rounds.
Other contestants weren’t so lucky. One contestant, who happened to be labeled “number 8,” was eliminated because, Stell said, “Number eight is a weird number, and when you put it on its side, it means infinity.”

The main female contestant, Alpha Phi member Colleen O’Neill, selected Sigma Chi member Adam Ohlson for her date.
The two contestants were voted into the game by their respective houses, and each couple won a $30 gift certificate to Steelhead Brewing Company’s restaurant in Eugene..
“I feel lucky, and I feel great. We’re ready to party,” Stell said after selecting Taylor.
A capella groups Divisi and On The Rocks and the University dance team volunteered their services to the event’s entertainment. Divisi, the University’s all-female a capella group, kicked off the show with a rousing rendition of Usher and Ludacris’ popular song “Yeah!”
Lomelin said she was nervous about the event at first, but she thought it went pretty well.
“We really got people excited about greek philanthropy,” she said.
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