"So far we raised nearly $600," CWS President Anneliese Sherer said. "We're hoping by tomorrow to make over $900 by selling tickets at the door."

Tickets to view the organized food fight are $3. If the 182-person room is filled, more than $1000 will be raised.

"As a student organization we really wanted to get involved with Thon," Sherer said. "We don't have any dancers this year, but maybe next year. Right now we're just giving a flat donation because we want to."

Not every student who requests to throw a pie is guaranteed the chance. Pie-throwing tickets are put into a raffle according to their category (i.e. one category for student-on-student, one for student-on-faculty, etc.) The number of tickets drawn per category depends on how many tickets are bought for that category.

"We believe the raffle gives students incentive to buy more tickets," Jana Seilhamer, event coordinator for the contest, said. "It makes it a little more of a competition."

CWS is planning to throw from 15 to 20 pies. Pies will be made from aluminum pans and whipped cream. The New Anchor Inn restaurant in Punxsutawney is donating the money for the whipped cream.

"My parents wanted to support Thon somehow," Jason Setree, secretary on the CWS executive council, said. "This was easy for them because I'm on the Campus Weather council."

Students who are hit with pies are mainly seniors in meteorology or shift managers at CWS.

"This is our first time doing this event," Seilhamer said. "Seniors are usually the most well-known, which is one reason we asked them to be receivers. Also, we hope that by asking seniors to be the receivers it will become sort of an honor. Which is pretty funny, since they're getting a pie in their face."