Media Advisory
Friday night is date night for Johns Hopkins University students invited to participate in what organizers hope will be a world record-setting event. The Homewood campus undergraduate service group VisionXchange is hoping that 600 Johns Hopkins students will gather on the baseball field Friday night to set a new benchmark in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most couples on a simultaneous blind date. The current record, the students say, is 268 couples (or 536 people), held by Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, which held a similar gathering in July 2005 (see www.ntu.edu.sg/corpcomms2/news/ CNAonline_200705_blinddates.pdf). Daters will enjoy a light dinner while taking in all the ambience of the university's annual Spring Fair, which begins on Friday morning and runs through Sunday (see www.jhuspringfair.com/). Charging $10 per person to participate, VisionXchange will donate all the proceeds to pay for medication for children in Baltimore who are HIV-positive or who have AIDS and cannot afford treatment. VisionXchange is a service and international relief organization on the Homewood campus. The group says its goal is "to raise a lot of money for good causes while having a kick-ass fun time." Its mission statement is online at www.vxchange.org/aboutUs.html. To reach students organizing this event, contact Shruti Mathur at 703-863-6238. Media wishing to cover the contest should contact Amy Lunday at 443-287-9960.
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