Fast-a-Thon at VU bridges cultures - Wednesday, 10/19/05: "ast-a-Thon at VU bridges cultures
For Ramadan, non-Muslims join in the abstinence
By JEANNINE F. HUNTER
Staff Writer
More than 220 Vanderbilt University students went hungry for a day so that others do not have to.
For the third year in a row, non-Muslim students at Vanderbilt joined their Muslim classmates by fasting for 12 hours as part of Fast-a-Thon. Participating students pledged to abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset to raise money from sponsors for a charity."
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