THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2003
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Students help frame house for Alternative Winter Break
By Lauren Airey lairey@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Evan Stange traveled south for winter break but not with suntan oil or beach blankets in tow.
The Wichita sophomore was one of 70 students involved in the Alternative Winter Break program that traveled to 10 sites for a week of hands-on volunteering.
Stange and six other students worked on a house in Morehead, Ky., for Frontier Housing Inc., an organization similar to Habitat for Humanity that serves seven counties in eastern Kentucky.
The seven volunteers framed the house in four days with the help of a local foreman.
Other students traveled in groups of seven to Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas.
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"When we got there, it was all muddy and there was just a foundation." Stange said. "When we left, they were ready to put the roof on."
Students paid $190 to cover transportation, housing and meals for the break. In addition to the fee, students enrolled in "Special Projects in the Community", and earned up to two credit hours.
Classroom instruction was based on information from Break Away, a national organization that provides training and information about alternative breaks. The class covered conflict resolution and first aid in addition to focusing on site-specific social issues.
"We learn about the issues from a global scale down to the town we'll be working in," Rudi Cohn, Alternative Winter Break co-coordinator, said. "Then we find ways to bring it back into the Lawrence community. The group that went to Houston to work with the AIDS Foundation will probably come back and work with the Douglas County AIDS Project."
Each group also participated in a mini-break in the Lawrence area to prepare for its week-long trip.
"During our mini-break, we
worked with an agency similar to the one we'd work with for the week." Jessi Mester, Alternative Breaks co-director, said, "We worked with Lawrence Habitat to learn proper hammering technique and how to make a chalk line."
The Alternative Winter Break program continued its growth spurt with an increase of nine participants from last year, from 61 to 70. The program turned down several applicants for budget reasons.
"We definitely want to make it bigger and go to more sites, but we don't have the funding," Cohn said. "If we were bigger, though, it would be harder to make sure each site was a quality site. The demand is bigger, and we ended up turning away more people than we wanted."
Edited by Andrew Ward
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structure," Ng said. "There's an inherent physical need that needs to be there first before you actually improve or expand the current programming."
The proposed 7,000-square-foot building will create more classrooms for the University.
"The vision of the MRC all along has been a resource center for teaching." Shulenburger said, "I'm not sure that it's been fully utilized and don't know what to forecast for it. But we're getting together faculty and department heads to help figure out how to make it a real resource to support the teaching mission of the University."
One of Ng's goals for a new MRC is to ensure KU graduates
leave the University culturally versatile and competent whether that be in the workplace or in the community they live in.
This goal also falls in line with the push to make the University a top25 research institution. To achieve top 25 stature, Ng said, the University needs to become increasingly diverse and reflect the world around and not just the state.
Ng addressed the concern that a new MRC would just be a third union for minority students. He hoped moving the center to the Union would open doors for more student organizations to be able to collaborate and use MRC programs that traditionally do not.
The MRC would continue to serve as a meeting place for minority organizations and students. Rosalba Soto-Gomez,
Topeka freshman, walks to the current MRC once a week for tutoring.
"I think it's good place although sometimes there's too much traffic," she said. Soto-Gomez hikes to the MRC from her residence hall room at GSP-Corbin Hall and would appreciate the shorter walk if the center was constructed by the Union. She has been able to make friends going to the MRC and looks forward to more activity programming.
The next step is finding a donor to fund the project, which the Endowment Association will head.
"You don't find donors unless you go out and hunt for them," Shulenburger said.
—Edited by Michelle Burhenn
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