{"id":6244,"date":"2010-11-10T13:45:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2010-11-10T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T20:29:06","slug":"brock-employees-raise-money-for-movember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/11\/brock-employees-raise-money-for-movember\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock raises money for Movember"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6245\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6245\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6245 \" title=\"Colin Ryrie, Vince Wilson, Terry Cockerline, Andy Morgan, Curtis Gadula\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/movember2010.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Ryrie, Vince Wilson, Terry Cockerline, Andy Morgan, Curtis Gadula\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mo growers on the Brock Staffer Staches team include, from left, Colin Ryrie, Vince Wilson, Terry Cockerline, Andy Morgan and Curtis Gadula.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Take a look at your male co-workers this month and you might notice a slight difference in the form of some suspicious upper lip growth.<\/p>\n<p>Brock men across campus are growing moustaches for Movember, a fundraising and awareness campaign for prostate cancer research. Participants start the month clean shaven, then have 30 days to grow the best moustaches possible. All the while, they collect pledges at <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.movember.com\" target=\"_blank\">ca.movember.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Teams across campus include Jimmy\u2019s Staches, a group of staff at the James A. Gibson Library, and Brock U, a large student team affiliated with the Brock University Students\u2019 Union that boasts more than 80 mo&#8217; growers. Nine Brock employees are part of the Brock Staffer Staches, a team started by Terry Cockerline, manager of Alumni Relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously prostate cancer is a serious issue, and this is a fun way to draw attention to it,\u201d Cockerline said. \u201cWith Brock being a tight-knit community, I thought it would get people\u2019s attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moustache results so far are varied, as are reactions to the team members\u2019 furry upper lips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy admin assistant won\u2019t look at me,\u201d said Andy Morgan, manager of the Project Management Office in Information Technology Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been told by more than one person that it\u2019s hard to take me seriously,\u201d said Cockerline, who admits the moustache is \u201coutside of my comfort zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the team sees the serious side of the issue too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing my age, I know of a number of people who have either had prostate cancer or are dealing with it right now,\u201d Morgan said.<\/p>\n<p>New members are welcome on the Brock Staffer Staches team.<\/p>\n<p>Movember has raised more than $30 million for cancer research since it was founded in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Below are links to the donation pages of some Brock teams:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ca.movember.com\/mospace\/528688\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brock U<\/a> (team captain: Curtis Bell)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ca.movember.com\/mospace\/912538\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Staffer Staches<\/a> (team captain: Terry Cockerline)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ca.movember.com\/mospace\/771422\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy\u2019s Staches<\/a> (team captain: Jonathan Younker)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=TheBrockNews&amp;loc=en_US\">Get <em>The Brock News<\/em> delivered to your email.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, it&#8217;s all about the moustache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[3333,142,133,16,180,24,121,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}