For Hopkins students, a bald move

Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity braves clippers to raise funds for cancer foundation

The girls didn't think so. One was Janna Turadek, 20, who had dropped some cash in the box while Komoroski was being shaved and yet declined to help remove his hair.

"I like him, but I'm waiting for someone I like a little less," said Turadek, an applied-math and economics student from Carson City, Nev., implying that she would enjoy the experience of making a fellow look like a billiard ball.

When Shivam Shah, 19, a biomedical engineering student from Edison, N.J., sat down in the hot seat, Turadek mischievously declared him a "mortal enemy" and went to work on his hair. She took turns with her friend Sarah Gutbrod, 19, from Newtown, Conn., who shares a major with Shah.

"It doesn't come off that easily," Turadek said, struggling to make an impression on Shah's hair with the whirring shaver.

"There might be a skill to it that we lack," Gutbrod replied.

"That's not reassuring," Shah said, looking up apprehensively from the black plastic trash bag around his neck that served -- ineffectively -- as a barber's cloth.

By the end of the three-day fair, Shah and his cohorts had raised more than $1,200 for their cause.

"I'm really happy about that," Viemeister said.

And his hair?

"It's gone, man," he said. "It's gone."

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