The Ultimate Sacrifice in Supporting Public Interest Work? Growing a Mustache

The mustache is not the PSLawNet Blog’s favorite look.  In spite of that – or perhaps because of it – we tip our caps  (which sit atop clean-shaven faces) to the small group of students and professors at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law who participated in Mustache March to raise funds for the school’s Public Interest Law Fund (PILF).

Reports the Carlisle Sentinel of Central Pennsylvania:

Throughout March, students and faculty at the Carlisle law school donned mustaches in an effort to raise money for the Cherie M. Millage Summer Fellowship program, said Kate MacKenzie, a third-year student and president of the Public Interest Law Fund (PILF).

The program awards fellowships to first- and second-year students, which allows them to accept summer employment with public interest firms and organizations, she added, and PILF is a student organization that helps raise funds for the program.

Dubbed Mustache March, the facial hair growing fundraiser raised roughly $1,500, MacKenzie said.

About 30 or 31 people, who included two professors and two female students, who wore fake mustaches, took part, said Ely Ross, a second-year student and one of the masterminds behind the event.