Wednesday, November 11, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
students help hurricane victims
Relief effort for Hondurans starting to lose momentum
By Kelli Raybern
Kansan staff writer
Participants in a campuswide relief effort for hurricane victims already have sent a few shipments to Honduras and Nicaragua through charity organizations and activists they know. Sandra Bastidas, Tegucigalpa,
Honduras sophomore,
sent relief supplies to her
mother.
Bastidas' family moved to Honduras seven years ago from Colombia. Since Hurricane Mitch struck the coast of Honduras two weeks ago, Bastidas has communicated with her father by e-mail, receiving updates of the hurricane's devastating effects.
"The lady that works in our house has lost 11 rela-
Bastidas: Has sent supplies to her mother in Handuras.
ives, and she has two brothers in the hospital," Bastidas said. "I worked for the secretary of my high school for two years. She has lost her house. Everything is gone."
rion that affected her when she was so far away from it.
She said it was difficult to deal with a situations at 2:30 p.m. yesterday in the ECM lobby. Holcombe said the center already had sent a similar-sized load to relief agencies.
"I got to the point that I would sit in class and nothing would sink in," she said. "It's so hard to imagine that all these places I went to are no longer there."
Bastidas informed members of the International Association of Students in Business and Economics members about the movement and helped package relief supplies for shipment. She said the volunteer work had been therapeutic for her.
"Now that I'm actually doing something it makes me feel better," she said.
Judging by the success of the University's relief efforts, helping hurricane victims is making a lot of people feel better.
The Rev. Thad Holcombe, campus pastor at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., the drop-off site for the drive's donations, said talking to donors had been similar to grief counseling.
"People feel so powerless, and they feel so deeply for what's happening." he said. "It's good that they can do something."
Holcombe said the effort, organized by Latin American Solidarity, had raised about $450 in monetary contributions. He said donations of clothing; food and other supplies had been steady. There was a waist-high pile, about eight feet across, of donations at 2:30 p.m. yesterday in the ECM lobby. Holcombe said the center already had sent a similar-sized load to relief agencies.
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Matthew Kopep, Fayetteville, Ark., graduate student, worked at the Latin American Solidarity table in the Kansas Union yesterday, giving information about the disaster and collecting donations of money and supplies. Latin American Solidarity will run the table again tomorrow in the fourth floor lobby of the Union. He said that the relief effort was still going well but that donations had slowed slightly since last week.
"Hopefully we can keep interest going," he said. "But I think once it becomes less important in the news, it will be less on people's minds."
K-State challenges University to recycle
By Liz Wristen Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas will be participating in a recycling challenge this week with Kansas State University.
Students are being asked to collect aluminum cans. Students may deposit the containers inside the University recycling truck between 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday at Westbrooke and 15th streets.
Students also can recycle their empty cans in the blue recycling bins located in many campus buildings. Victoria Silva, resource conservation manager, said the aluminum collected on campus also would count toward the competition
Kevin Yoder, student body presi
"I think any time you can do a recycling drive, it's a positive thing. It also puts in perspective the cooperative attitude that exists between the schools."
Andy Macklin
Kansas State student body vice president
dent, said he received a letter from the Kansas State student senate asking if KU students would participate.
"Anytime I receive a challenge from another school, I'm always eager to take it on behalf of the student body," Yoder said. "One neat
thing with this is that it's different from something like athletics, which we usually challenge K-State in."
The recycling pickup was coordinated by Silva, who said she thought the challenge was timely because "America Recycles Day" is Saturday.
"I think it's important that we draw some attention for the need to beautify the campus," Silva said. "This is a good opportunity for students to help take care of the campus themselves by doing their part."
Andy Macklin, student body vice president at Kansas State, said he liked the idea of having a competition that would benefit the environment.
"I think that anytime you can do a
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recycling drive, it's a positive thing," Macklin said. "It also puts in perspective the cooperative attitude that exists between the schools."
Silva said the University of Nebraska also had volunteered to participate in the challenge.
Campus groups to collect trash in cleanup project
By Liz Wristen Kansan staff writer
Student volunteers will pick up campus litter this Saturday, and Victoria Silva — environmental specialist for the department of environment, health and safety — hopes volunteers will continue to clean up throughout the school year.
A campus cleanup — sponsored by the department of environment, health and safety — is in conjunction with the second annual America Recycles Day.
Silva said nine organizations on campus had volunteered to help with the cleanup, called "Adopt A Hill."
She said she would ask the groups who volunteered for the cleanup to continue to help each month throughout the year.
The organizations that have volunteered are the Environmental Law Society, Kappa Kappa Psi, Greek Environmental Board, Black Student Union, KU Environs, Environmental Studies Student Association, Association of University Residence Halls, All Scholarship Hall Council and Javhawker Towers.
Silva said she hoped that seven to eight more organizations would volunteer to help with the cleanup.
The University has been divided into 21 sections that Silva said needed the most attention. Volunteers will be collecting trash and recyclables in the sections they are assigned.
Silva said she tried to gather volunteers last year to participate in a campus cleanup but that few organizations responded.
"This is really the first year
that KU has been involved with a campuswide cleanup," Silva said. "I think it's definitely something that will last."
Melissa Coleman, chairman of the Student Environmental Advisory Board, said she was working with Silva to arrange the cleanup.
"By overseeing the project, we are trying to make sure that it runs smoothly and that it's a good experience for everyone involved," Coleman said.
Silva said Facilities Operations would donate trash bags to the cleanup and that the University would supply trucks to pick up trash and recyclables at the individual cleanup sections on campus.
Matt Todd, co-chairman for the Greek Environmental Board, said he hoped the cleanup would attract a lot of volunteers.
"We are hoping to get as many people involved as possible." Todd said. "This is a worthwhile cause, and we hope that we can get members of the Greek community, as well as University students, to become a part of this."
Silva said this year's theme, "If you're not buying recycled, you're not really recycling," would be promoted with free water bottles that will be given away to everyone who volunteers in the cleanup. The water bottles are made of 100 percent recycled materials.
The Student Environmental Advisory Board will meet at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Oread Room at the Kansas Union to decide the locations of the cleanup for each volunteer group.
For more information, contact Victoria Silva at 864-2855.
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