By Cheryl Jensen Signpost news editor se Si sigma. Alpha Epsilon rode 300 miles from Boise, Idaho to Ogden Homecoming weekend to raise money for the Ronald McDonald house in Salt Lake City. | “Tcan teli you my butt’s sore right now,” Sigma Alpha Epsilon President Matt Guiste said sunday. He and others took turns riding the distance to make it in time for the Homecoming parade. He said he could hardly sit down. “We're not used to those bikes because none of us are professional riders or anything,” he said. The fraternity came through ‘with $600 for the house on 9th ‘East and South Temple, which provides lodging for parents with children in the hospital. The money was voluntarily pledged per mile for each biker | | | } from corporate and private contributors. Guiste said the fraternity is reviving an effort that started six years ago when the fraternity was first chartered. The next year, SAE went national and the bike run became tradition. It dwindled in the last school year, and although bik- ers still made the run, no money was raised. | “Last year they didn’t raise any money. This year we wanted toreturn it to the prominence it used to have,” Guiste said. “Pretty mucheveryonein chapter was involved.” The fraternity has eight members, he said. By the time they are finished, SAE members will have raised $3,000$4,000 from sources including other SAE chapters in the state. The WSU chapter is the only See Ride page 3 STEVE CONLIN/THE SIGNPOS? The WSU Homecoming Parade took piace Saturday morning on Washington Boulevard. A iucky break in the raining weather kept spectators and participants dry. ran oe NERO tT ——