Bras burn at Stephens College
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Amy Sand, Stephens College junior class government vice president, burns a bra while onlookers chant, "save second base," during the No Bra, No Problem event Wednesday at Stephens College. The junior class sponsored the event to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
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Stephens College junior Amy Sand and senior Dominique Richardson play a game of jump rope with stringed-together bras. Following the game, the bras were ceremoniously tossed into an open fire pit.
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Local band Root of Two Experiment provides live music during the No Bra, No Problem event Wednesday at Stephens College. Organizer Amy Sand said about 70 people attended.
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Patrick Wombacher and class government event chairwoman Alison Mode cheer on academic affairs chairwoman Gretchen Thurmer as she holds a flaming bra on a wood plank over a fire pit, about to drop it in. Instead of a form of protest like past bra-burnings, the event Wednesday at Stephens College raised awareness of breast cancer.
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Vince Thayer dangles a burning bra Wednesday at Stephens College. Participants either brought their own bras or used donated bras from a stack near the fire pit.