Pied faces mean cash for Janeway as engineering students hold Pi Day
Professors popular target for many
Engineering students at Memorial University were wearing whipped cream Monday, as their classmates forked out money for a good cause.
It's called Pi Day — which happens on the third month's 14th day, thereby echoing the opening digits of the number pi — and allows students to pay $10 to buy a whipped cream pie and the privilege of smushing it in the face of a fellow classmate, or professor.
You could pay $15 to re-direct the pie, or $20 to buy it outright — avoiding a sugary facial.
Mechanical engineering student, Stephen Pope, said most students are good natured about Pi Day.
"I think most people know it's a good cause. We're supporting the Janeway [Children's Hospital] here today," said Pope.
"There were a couple of people who weren't too happy about getting it, but they were troupers, and let us pie them anyway."
Students aren't the only targets.
"A lot of the students choose to pie the professors for one reason or another. A bad test, maybe some other beef," he said.
"So it' s pretty funny for everyone."