THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
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NEWS SECTION EDITORS
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Sports editor Blake Schuster
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Special sections editor Dani Brady
Head copy chief Tara Bryant
Copy chiefs
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Hayley Jozwiak
Paley Litle
Opinion editor
Anna Wenner
Photo editor
George Mullinix
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The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of The Kansan are 50 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at the Kansan business office, 2051A Dole Human Development Center, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS., 66045.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014
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Thursday, Feb. 27
What: Veggie Lunch
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Ecumenical Campus Ministries
About: A free vegetarian meal on
Thursdays at the ECM.
**What:** Presidential Lecture Series -
The First Ladies: Intimate Sacrifice,
Honored Post
**When:** 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
**Where:** Dole Institute of Politics
**About:** Richard Norton Smith, first director of the Dole Institute and presidential historian, examines the private lives and the public roles of the First Ladies.
Friday, Feb. 28
What: Latin American Seminar
When: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Hall Center, Seminar Room 1
About: "Una Nueva Justicia en Chile?
Institutional and Idealization Change in the Chilean Judiciary"
What: Much Ado About Nothing (play)
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Crafton-Preyer Theatre,
Murphy Hall
About: An adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play. Public tickets $18, seniors and KU faculty/ staff $17 and students $10 at 785-864-3982. Other showings Saturday, Sunday.
Saturday, March 1
What: Study Abroad Scholarship
Application Deadline
When: All Day
Where: Lippincott Hall
About: Final deadline to apply for OSA scholarships to a summer or fall study abroad program.
What: Men's Basketball vs. Oklahoma State watch party
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Level 4 Lobby
About: Watch the Jayhawks play Oklahoma State on the road on the Union's 132" screen.
Sunday, March 2
What: Up Close with Susan Earle:
Personal Geometry
When: 2 p.m.
Where: Spencer Museum of Art
About: A close study session of two master quilters: Yoshiko Jinzenji and Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell.
CAMPUS
Alternative Breaks awaits funding decision
HAYLEY FRANCIS
news@kansan.com
KU student organization Alternative Breaks has increased in membership since it began in 1995, from 10 students attending one spring break service trip to 869 students volunteering at 38 different sites last year to meet various needs nationwide. Unless the organization receives more funding from the upcoming Senate fund allocations, it will not be able to continue its growth.
Alternative Breaks is a community-outreach organization that now provides service trips to more than 800 KU students each year. Through winter, spring, summer, fall and weekend sessions, the program allows students to travel around the U.S. and volunteer at various
non-profit organizations.
More than 200 students applied to attend the most recent session during the winter and more than half had to be turned away, according to Alternative Breaks public relations coordinator Natalie Parker, due to lack of staff and number of service sites.
"Our goal in the future is to expand the number of people that we can reach," Parker said. "If we had more money we would do more."
The organization requested $52,310 from Student Senate this weekend to expand its program funding for the upcoming year.
The Senate Finance Committee decided Tuesday that a suggested $17,460 be submitted for approval to the Senate on Thursday - 70 percent less than what the organization asked for. That
sum includes co-director's wages, office supplies, phone charges and coverage for one of Alternative Breaks' annual events.
"The last thing we want to do is decrease opportunities or turn people away," Alternative Breaks co-director Hannah Sitz said. "We want to be able to provide these opportunities...
Without growth capital I don't think that's going to be able to happen."
volunteers.
The finance committee's proposed funding covered exactly what Alternative Breaks requested, except for wages, Sitz said. She says wages for core members was the main focus of their proposal. Currently, all members are
Alternative Breaks received $10,000 last year solely for co-directors' salaries from the Educational Opportunity Fund. This year, the organization requested wages for co-directors and core
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HEAR FROM THE VOLUNTEERS
Becky Schieferecke, a junior from Topeka studying nursing, volunteered at a prison rehabilitation site two years ago called "Homeboy Industries."
"I think it's a fantastic program for students because it gives students an opportunity to learn something they can't learn in a classroom," Schieferecke said. "Students can get out of the Lawrence bubble and learn incredible things about the rest of the U.S. and about themselves."
"I gained a lot from this experience, but I think most of all, I gained insight." Schiefererecke said. "It opened my eyes to larger social issues, and has made me more aware of injustices happening around me everyday."
KU Alternative Breaks public relations coordinator Natalie Parker volunteered last year in Washington D.C. for "A Wider Circle." an organization that provides support to impoverished families.
"I really like Alternative Breaks because it allows you to serve and be educated about a cause and nonprofit," Parker said. "It also allows you to connect with KU students you might not usually connect with.
"We really like the sites where they do training for some of our participants because they're getting to know a little bit more about the cause."
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