Registration for the N.C. State Relay For Life is well under way, but less than one percent of students have signed up to show their support for the event.

Although the University is home to a population of about 30,000 students, only 207 students have registered to be a part of the eighth annual N.C. State Relay For Life, an event designed to raise money for cancer research.

 According to Madison Dixon, senior in psychology and a Relay For Life student coordinator, this is only a fraction of the number of students participating in the past.

“We usually have around 1,000 participants in about 60 to 70 teams,” Dixon said. “But the way it’s gone here is in the next month it will jump and we’ll end up with more than we’d expected.”

Currently, 44 teams have registered with N.C. State Relay For Life, and have raised $5,386, about one tenth of the $54,000 raised last year.

While Dixon said she expects a significant increase in the number of participants, she urges students to support the cause she said she believes touches everyone’s life in one way or another.

“I think it’s important for students to recognize that for a campus the size of ours we have the potential to grow so much more if people would just get involved. Too many people know someone who is living with or has died from cancer and this is a fact that we are working to wipe out by being involved with Relay For Life and the American Cancer Society,” Dixon said. “It is a great experience to have with friends and it is for a great cause, there is no reason people shouldn’t get involved.”