The Clinical Lab Sciences department, sponsored by the Student Association of Clinical Lab Professionals (SACLP), hosted a faculty pieing event where students could donate to pie their department for Lab Week.

The president of the organization, Avitrea Johnson, a senior clinical lab science major from West Memphis, Arkansas, said the idea behind the event was to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to donate when they go to tour the facility in the fall semester.

“They support us by giving us supplies and a lot of giveaway items,” Johnson said.

As president for the SACLP, Johnson oversees all ongoing events.

“We had many events this week, such as the scavenger hunt, pie professionals, many mysteries and we had our lab walk this Tuesday where we walked the 5k,” Johnson said. 

They said many people don’t know about students in labs, so the purpose of the event was to celebrate these people and show them off.

Dani Kasinger, a junior clinical lab science major from Pocahontas, Arkansas, is the vice president of SACLP. 

Kasinger said the SACLP thought pieing would be a popular thing to do for the event.

“Why would you not want to pie your professors?” Kasinger said. 

Many students attending agreed Jennifer Shrable got pied the most. They said Stacy Walz, associate dean Audrey Folsom, Assistant Professor of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, got pied the least out of the four faculty members. 

Folsom, clinical lab sciences program director and faculty mentor for SACLP, said the students approached the faculty and asked if they would volunteer to be pied in the face for this fundraiser.

“We figured the students would get a kick out of it and we could help raise some money for St. Jude,” Folsom said. 

Folsom said the faculty loves supporting and being engaged with their students. 

“We’re training them to be professionals but we also need to have fun in the process,” Folsom said. “There’s a lot of hours in the labs, there’s a lot of difficult stuff to study for tests and things. This is a good little release for them to get, to get back at us for making them work so hard.” 

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