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A CONNECTED COMMUNITY
HARVEST SEASON
Through compost, students give to local food bank
MARSHALL SCHMIDT
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Throwing out leftovers may feed the less fortunate - eventually.
The University's campus garden uses cempost from food waste donated by scholarship halls as fertilizer. The campus garden donates its produce to those who could not otherwise afford it through Just Foods, the Douglas County food bank.
Brittany Hodges, a sophomore from Leawood, said the garden, located at 13th and Louisiana Street, is part of a larger effort to promote community service and environmental conservation. Hodges is the coordinator for the Earth program, a division of the University's Center for Community Outreach (CCO)
"Growing food uses so much energy with the machinery, irrigation and transportation." Hodges said. "This is a way to teach students how to grow their own food, reduce their carbon footprint and save money."
Student volunteers already
planted seeds last week and hope to harvest lettuce, radishes, squash, basil, chives and green onions when summer comes. Hodges said.
While only three to four students volunteer weekly at the garden, nearly 5,000 students volunteer in 13 organizations for between 7,000 and 9,000 hours annually through the CCO, said Jill Wenderton, executive director for CCO.
Wenderott, a junior from Alma, said the variety of volunteer opportunities match differing passions in students, which, along with the campus garden, include working on art projects with preschool-age children, serving at the Lawrence Community Shelter or teaching music lessons to junior high or elementary school students.
"Through service, I've come to feel much more connected to the community," Wenderott said. "A lot of students who are involved in ways in which that pertain to their future career in their community."
While Vivian Choong a sopho
more from Overland Park, helps out with the campus garden when she can, she also tutors high school students from low socioeconomic status for five hours each week.
"I want to be a teacher, so it's good experience working with kids," Choong said.
Through the program, Upward Bound, Choong accumulates plenty more volunteer hours than the required 10 each semester through her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega.
But for Eric Becker, a freshman from Norton, volunteering at the campus garden is not about accumulating volunteer hours at all. Becker sees the donated produce as helping others, promoting sustainable living and eating healthier.
"If students grow their own garden, they could eat healthier because fresh produce is readily available," Becker said.
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CAMPUS
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Participants listen to the introduction of the Relay for Life walk last year at the Ambler Fitness Center. This year's walk will be at Memorial Stadium from April 26 to 27.
Relay for Life honors cancer survivors
EMILY DONOVAN
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Grandmothers, sisters, co-workers, uncles, mothers and complete strangers will be honored, entertained and aided at the University's 10th annual Relay for Life Friday night through Saturday morning.
"Nobody really understands the impact cancer has on so many people until you see it with your own eyes," said Erin Frazier, a senior from Andover and Relay for Life's Event Co-Chair.
In years past, the overnight event has raised $30,000 to $40,000 to benefit the American Cancer Society's services throughout Douglas County and research at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The high-energy opening ceremonies will start at 6 p.m. At midnight, a Luminaria Ceremony with candle lighting will remember those lost to cancer. At the Fight Back Ceremony at 1 a.m., participants will take a personal pledge to make a difference in the fight against cancer. Free food will accompany both serious moments
and games of dodgeball.
Bre Kirkhart, the other event Co-Chair, also a senior from Andover, has a similar history working to fundraise and fight.
Cancer wasn't a big surprise considering her family history. Moser anticipated a lumpectomy and a minor radiation therapy. However, the size of her tumors and extent of her diagnosis was more severe than she had expected. Moser faced surgery and 16 weeks of chemotherapy treatment for stage II aggressive breast cancer, pre-ovarian cancer and then thyroid cancer in 2004.
After her mom, Michelle Moser, heard about the event during a chemotherapy treatment session, Kirkhart proceeded to volunteer with Relay for Life in Andover throughout high school.
With more than 500 students expected to volunteer, Frazier believes the fight against cancer is both personal and universal. Her grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
Disobeying her doctor's recommendation to rest, Moser snuck into the office between rounds of chemotherapy. Her wig matched
her original hair so closely that her co-workers didn't even notice that she had had a friend shave her head when her hair began to fall out. When she developed a blood clot, she wore long sleeves to cover the peripherally inserted central catheter secured by transparent tape in her forearm.
Thanks to a handful of close friends, Moser never went to an appointment or treatment by herself. Having just settled a divorce, Moser was in disbelief that her kids — Kirkhart just starting high school and her son just starting college — would have to go through cancer with her.
"It's so rare if you know somebody that hasn't been touched by cancer," Moser said.
"I truly do not think that our caregivers get enough support," Moser said. "Yes, we are the ones vomiting, but they're the ones that have to watch us and stand by helplessly. There's nothing they can do to make it better. I can't even imagine how hard it was on Bre because she was there with me every time, after every treatment."
lap on the track to upbeat music at Relay for Life is meant to be both a celebration and demonstration of how many people have fought with cancer. That's what the event is all about: celebrating survivors' victories, remembering those lost and fighting back.
The 462 registered participants have already raised more than $26,000 to benefit the American Cancer Society.
Individual registration for Friday's Relay for Life at 6 p.m. at Memorial Stadium is still open. One person from each of the 60 registered team should be walking the track at all times while the rest of the participants can relax in their tents.
Moser is in remission and now runs 5Ks and 10Ks. Her first Relay for Life in Lawrence was to support her daughter's involvement in organizing the event. She has continued to make the trip to Lawrence each year, impressed by the growing numbers of young adults working to support the cancer patients in their lives.
Watching survivors walk the first
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CLIMATE
Environmentalist visits in honor of Earth Day
"I hope that this will put more motivation behind movements," she added." And for those who are unaware, they'll learn some truths about climate
in honor of Earth Day, the University will be hosting Dr. David Orr, a well-known environmentalist who is active in many areas of environmental studies, with his seminar "Finding the Political Will to Reverse Climate Change."
about recent climate change and how communities can adapt and respond. KU Enviros President Sarah Kraus, a junior from Allen, Texas, said he will be offering ideas about how to start productive dialogues about climate change in communities.
"The issue of climate changes is a hard one for us individually, and that's where he will go, to show that all small individual actions are important for us to take," Kindscher said.
The discussion will be Thursday in the Kansas Union's Woodruff Auditorium beginning at 7:30 p.m. Orr will talk
Kindersch said the decision to host Orr was an easy one. After proposing him during the planning discussions, Kindersch said there was an immediate response, and then Orr was contacted to see if he was available.
— Elly Grimm
"He's very knowledgeable, informed and thoughtful," said Kelly Kindscher, a professor of environmental studies. "He's thinking of ways that we can help make things better for us in the in terms of sustainability issues. I'm very confident that he will have a message that people will want to hear and that will influence us, particularly in Lawrence."
TUCKIN' AND ROLLIN'
Orr is also a faculty member at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Kindscher said that Orr has spoken at the University before.
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Index CLASSIFIEDS 6 CRYPTOQUIPS 5 SPORTS 8
CROSSWORD 5 OPINION 4 SUDUKU 5
Don't today is National Cherry Cheesecake day. Indulge forget on this chilly April day.
ANRA BRIATIAN/ASAUSA An ROTC cadet propels himself over an obstacle at one of the events in Saturday's 19th annual Kansas Army ROTC Buddy Ranger Competition at Sesquientennial Park area at Clinton Lake. Two-person teams from 36 colleges in 14 states traveled to Lawrence to participate in the University's competition.
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