Students can put down $1 this week to vote to see one of five prominent K-State male students spend a day in a pregnancy suit.

Zeta Phi Beta sorority will have a fundraiser and philanthropy to support Life Choice Ministries through Friday.

Participants can vote for one of five men with significant campus leadership roles to wear a seven-month pregnancy suit next week on campus, said Corazon Ochanda, Zeta Phi Beta president and junior in nutritional sciences. The winner will wear the suit all day Oct. 3.

The five men are Matt Wagner, student body president and senior in management information systems; Nick Piper, Student Senate chairman and senior in finance; Bryon Williams, Black Student Union president and junior in economics; Terry Petrie, K-State football running back and senior in social sciences; and Jonathan Anderson, Phi Beta Sigma president and fifth-year student in architecture.

"We wanted a variety of guys who do a variety of things on campus," Ochanada said. "We went around and asked people who they wanted to see, and those were the names that came up."

Fifty percent of the funds will support Life Choice Ministries, and 50 percent will support Zeta Phi Beta because it is a nonprofit organization, Ochanda said.

Ochanda said Zeta Phi Beta often does its philanthropies with organizations that deal with pregnancy issues, like the March of Dimes, Crisis Center Inc. and Life Choice Ministries.

"We decided to put a twist on it and have men see if they would be willing to do it," she said. "The guys were pretty excited about it, surprisingly."

Ochanada said the fundraiser and philanthropy is an opportunity for men to learn more about issues that affect women like pregnancy.

"We do want them to keep in mind it's a fun community service project," she said.

"It's not meant to offend anyone. It's easy to get females involved in these kinds of things, but this is a way to bring in the guys."

Ochanda said the sorority members did not set a specific monetary goal and consider the event a trial-run fundraiser.

"If it goes well, we'll do it again next year, but we didn't set ourselves with any expectations," she said.

Gloria Conner, Zeta Phi Beta vice president, said about 40 people stopped at the K-State Student Union table Monday, and the group raised about $35. Conner, senior in personal financial planning, said people were impressed at the active aspect of the community-service fundraiser.

"Most people were intrigued at the community-service project instead of just asking for donations," she said. "People were amused at the thought of seeing someone wearing a pregnancy suit."

Conner said the fundraiser is aimed at the Manhattan community as a whole.

"It's just a great opportunity for people to do community service in the Manhattan community and actually see the results," she said. "It's a really fun, creative opportunity to really get out there and have fun with the guys."