UMass Dartmouth Community Joins Relay To Boston

About 100 students, alumni and faculty members ran, jogged and walked form the UMass Dartmouth Campus to Boston Common Sunday as part of their One Run Boston relay.  It was part of a nationwide run that started June 7th in California and ended late Sunday in Boston.

The purpose of the run is was to raise money for One Fund Boston, the organization that will distribute a total of $61 million to Boston Marathon bombing victim and their families.  The cross-country relay reportedly raised nearly $80,000 for One Fund by last night.

One of the accused bombers, Dzohkar Tsarnaev, was a student at UMass Dartmouth.