UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 3, 1997
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Students stick with service after class requirements met
GR Gordon-Ross/ KANSAN
Andrea Bustamante, Kansas City, Kan., junior, takes a phone message at the Multicultural Resource Center. Bustamante volunteers at the MRC for about 5 hours each week to satisfy a requirement for a social welfare class.
By Umut Bayramoglu
Kansan staff writer
Andrea Bustamante needed to do 20 hours of community service for her social welfare class. But what started as a class project turned into semesterlong volunteer work.
Heimlich said that student volunteers helped staff the front desk, put up fiilers and did other projects for the center.
Bustamante, a Kansas City, Kansas junior, is one of five student volunteers who work in the Multicultural Resource Center.
"I answer phones, help post fliers and answer any questions students might have," Bustamante said.
She said that her experience as a student volunteer at the center was an opportunity to meet people from different organizations on campus.
"The student volunteers' contribution is vital to us," said Evan Heimlich, program assistant of the center.
"The MRC is a really nice environment to volunteer in," Bustamante said.
Erica Hawthorne, another student volunteer, agreed.
"I'm almost done with my 18 hour requirement for my class, but I plan to continue helping at the center," she said.
Hawthorne, Shawnee freshman, said that working at the center made her realize that the Multicultural Resource Center was not known widely on campus.
"Seeing how things work in here made me want to help it get more widely known on campus," she said.
Hawthorne said that at first she又nay asked Sherwond Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, about volunteering in his office.
"I talked to Dr. Thompson and he said that they needed the most help in the Multicultural Resource Center," she said.
Heimlich said that the center needed student volunteers because it did not have a budget for paid workers.
"It's also great for clients to see students working there," he said. "The
students put their own perspectives and they become the MRC."
Hawthorne said that volunteering in the center had been a learning experience for her.
"Seeing combination of ethnic groups and having personal contact
with them was great," she said.
"If more people volunteered, the campus would benefit from it," she said.
Contest to select cover design
Students will design 1998 timetable page
Stephanie McDuff Kansan staff writer
While many students search for their classes in next fall's timetable, another search is on for a new timetable cover.
Student Union Activities and the Office of the University Registrar are sponsoring a timetable design contest. Interested students are being asked to design the cover of the University of Kansas' timetable of classes.
The winner of the contest will receive $100 and the winning art will be featured on the cover of the 1998 timetable series. The student will be credited for the artwork in the 1998 spring, summer and fall timetables.
Teresa Veazey, Hesston senior and vice president for University relations at SUA, said that the contest was not limited to design and art students.
"It's for anybody who has the time and desire to put something neat and
creative together." she said.
Entry forms are now available in the Registrar's Office, 150 Strong Hall. Completed entries should be returned to the office before 5 p.m. Friday.
An eight-person committee, made up of SUA members and registrar staff members, will judge the entries. The results will be released to participants April 11. The entries will later be displayed in a showcase in the Kansas Union.
The idea for the student design contest began about six years ago as Brenda Selman, associate registrar, and the University registrar, Richard Morrell, looked through timetables of other universities.
While looking at the timetables, Selman and Morrell found that several universities had students' designs and artwork featured on the covers. Selman and Morrell liked the idea of students designing their own timetables, but didn't know the best way to implement it at this university.
Throughout the years, Selman said, the two mulled over how to get students more involved in the design process of the timetable, but knew
that the registrar's office didn't have the funds to run a contest alone. Selman said she decided to approach SUA with the contest idea and the two organizations decided to work as partners.
Vaezey said that the idea interested her because SUA had never sponsored anything like a timetable design contest before.
She said that she also liked the contest idea because SUA rarely got the opportunity to work with administrative agencies on its special projects.
To pay for the contest, both groups are donating $250 to pay for the prize, posters, and advertisements.
As of yesterday evening, Selman had not received any contest entries, but said that she hoped to see a lot of entries.
Selman and Veazey said they hoped to offer the design contest to students next year if this year's contest was successful.
Vaezey said that if the contest was held next year, SUA hoped to bring in an outside design firm to serve as another co-sponsor and offer some professional input in the design selection.
KU Environs serve vegan lunches every Thursday at ECM building
By Ed Miller Special to the Kansan
Every Thursday the scent of garlic, chili pepper and cumin drifts from the Ecumenical Christian Ministries kitchen. That's when KU Environs members cook and serve a vegetarian lunch.
Bv Ed Miller
On a typical Thursday, Jill Miller labors above two large metal crocks of steaming red beans and rice.
Their eyes widen and the sound of compliments fill the kitchen as the first batch is sampled and labeled spicy. Several glasses of water later, batch two is deemed even spicier.
Two eager tasters stood at Miller's elbows, brandishing spoons, waiting to gauge the heat factor of the two batches of food.
Miller and the Environs serve hot and occasionally spicy vegetarian luncheons every Thursday at the ECM building, located just north of Adams Alumni Center on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Shannon Martin Topeka freshman
The lunches, which are served from noon to 1 p.m., are open to anyone wanting a meatless meal. Donations from $1 to $3 are welcome, but Enviroins said no one would be turned away for lack of funds.
"Being a vegetarian,you can eat anywhere."
"The meals don't cost that much to make, usually about $20," Miller said. "So we always end up with enough in donations to cover the cost."
members. The luncheons have lured few outside those groups, something several members said they hoped would change.
About 15 to 20 people show up on a typical Thursday, mostly Environs or Proponents of Animal Liberation
Thad Holcombe, lunch sponsor and ECM pastor, said that Environs had been preparing the lunches for three years and that a group of regulars had formed.
"There's usually about 20 of us during the hour period," Holcombe said. "It's a fun time for everybody and a chance to socialize over some good, healthy food."
Shannon Martin, Topeka freshman,
helps Miller coordinate the Environ
lunches. She said the meals were
actually vegan meals, meaning the
meals contained no animal products
such as milk, eggs or butter.
"Being a vegetarian, you can eat anywhere," Martin said. "You can tell if there's chicken or beef in something. But being a vegan is hard because often animal products are used in preparation of food and can be undetectable. It's difficult to find a place to eat out."
Miller said she used organically grown ingredients in her recipes.
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