The Journal

Issue date: 3/19/09 Section: Lifestyle

Media Credit: Jami Ford Nick Stevens, president of ONE Webster, led the 23-person signing of the ONE Webster Proclamation on Sept. 16, 2008 outside of the University Center. Over spring break, the national ONE campaign announced the top 10 schools in the ONE Campus Challenge, with ONE Webster coming in at 6th place. The event for ONE Webster's final project will be on March 24.

ONE Webster has campaigned its way to a sixth place finish out of more than 2,400 schools in the semi-final round of the ONE Campus Challenge (OCC).
"The ONE Campus Challenge is ONE's effort to empower, inform and mobilize the next generation of social justice activists," said David Lane, president and CEO of ONE, in a March 4 press release.
To participate in the challenge, ONE Webster President Nick Stevens, a junior public relations major, registered Webster University on the ONE Web site. Through the site, Stevens was able to report the local chapter's activities to the national organization, earning points by declaring WU a campus of ONE, photographing the Gorlok in a ONE T-shirt and lobbying members of Congress for poverty awareness.
"Last year we were in the top 20," Stevens said. "We did a lot of events but not enough to break the top 10 - that was our goal this year."
Stevens said he was confident that ONE Webster would make it into the final round of the OCC in 2009 because they were so close last year and are even more organized this year.
As a top-10 finalist, ONE Webster was given a $1,000 grant to use toward a poverty awareness campaign.
"The final 10 schools will use their grants to take their advocacy to the next level and impact larger audiences than ever before," Lane said.
ONE Webster is using its grant money to fund the "Call Out Hunger Campus Takeover" on March 24, said Ellie Curran, a senior public relations major.
Curran said ONE Webster has partnered with the Red Cross, Project Peanut Butter and Lwala Community Alliance for the event which will include presentations, documentary screenings and a bake sale.

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