ONE
WU group tries to nab points with full day of campus activities
By: Edana Dillard
Issue date: 3/26/09 Section: Lifestyle
In order to advance from their sixth-place finish in the ONE Campus Challenge, ONE Webster stirred up a day filled with events. With only two weeks to plan for the "Hunger Campus Takeover" event after being named one of the country's top campus chapters ONE Webster managed to get three speakers, a concert, a movie screening and a memorial March 24, starting at 11:30 a.m. in the University Center Sunnen Lounge and ending at 10:30 p.m. on the Emerson Library steps.
"We only had until March 29 to submit our events to move forward in the competition," said Ellie Curran, a senior public relations major. "We originally thought to have events throughout the week, but we decided that it would have more of an effect if we had them all in one day."
ONE Webster joined forces with Campus Activities to find a venue for their cause and to pull together the three bands for the concert.
A letter-writing workshop kicked off the event. Its purpose was for WU students to write letters to U.S. Sens. Claire McCaskill (D) and Kit Bond (R) to ask them to co-sponsor S.384, the Lugar -Casey "Global Food Security Act." Throughout the day, students could also call the senators' offices professing the same thing.
"We are making a concrete impact for extreme poverty by writing letters and making phone calls," said Nick Stevens, a junior public relations major and ONE Webster president. "No one could ever raise too much awareness on global hunger."
Marty and husband Dr. Mark Manary, the founder of Project Peanut Butter, hosted a presentation about what they do. The project is a therapeutic feeding program for malnourished children in Malawi and Sierra Leone. Dr. Manary, a Washington University professor, was the first to conduct clinical trials of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, a peanut, dairy, vitamin and mineral food that offers a 95 percent recovery rate.
Secretary of ONE Webster, Krista Keirnan, a freshman broadcast journalism major, used Project Peanut Butter and put on a bake sale, the proceeds going to help malnourished children return to a healthy lifestyle.
Votive candles were put out on the library steps and spelled out the word ONE. A moment of silence was taken for more than 9 million people who go hungry every night.
"We are so blessed to live in a place where there are homeless shelters and other ideas and ways to get food," Keirnan said. "But in some places they have no option and they go to bed starving every night."
At the end of "Hunger Campus Takeover," ONE Webster met its goal with more than 28 students writing letters and 107 students calling their senators.
The night was bittersweet because this day marks their fate in the competition; ONE Webster will find out if they've won on April 7. Members were thankful and ready to find out the outcome. WU students can vote online at www.one.org/campus.com next week.
"We are planning on advertising so everyone knows when to vote," Stevens said.
The chant "We are ONE" lingered after the event ended and the ONE Webster group had finished with a group hug.
"We only had until March 29 to submit our events to move forward in the competition," said Ellie Curran, a senior public relations major. "We originally thought to have events throughout the week, but we decided that it would have more of an effect if we had them all in one day."
ONE Webster joined forces with Campus Activities to find a venue for their cause and to pull together the three bands for the concert.
A letter-writing workshop kicked off the event. Its purpose was for WU students to write letters to U.S. Sens. Claire McCaskill (D) and Kit Bond (R) to ask them to co-sponsor S.384, the Lugar -Casey "Global Food Security Act." Throughout the day, students could also call the senators' offices professing the same thing.
"We are making a concrete impact for extreme poverty by writing letters and making phone calls," said Nick Stevens, a junior public relations major and ONE Webster president. "No one could ever raise too much awareness on global hunger."
Marty and husband Dr. Mark Manary, the founder of Project Peanut Butter, hosted a presentation about what they do. The project is a therapeutic feeding program for malnourished children in Malawi and Sierra Leone. Dr. Manary, a Washington University professor, was the first to conduct clinical trials of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, a peanut, dairy, vitamin and mineral food that offers a 95 percent recovery rate.
Secretary of ONE Webster, Krista Keirnan, a freshman broadcast journalism major, used Project Peanut Butter and put on a bake sale, the proceeds going to help malnourished children return to a healthy lifestyle.
Votive candles were put out on the library steps and spelled out the word ONE. A moment of silence was taken for more than 9 million people who go hungry every night.
"We are so blessed to live in a place where there are homeless shelters and other ideas and ways to get food," Keirnan said. "But in some places they have no option and they go to bed starving every night."
At the end of "Hunger Campus Takeover," ONE Webster met its goal with more than 28 students writing letters and 107 students calling their senators.
The night was bittersweet because this day marks their fate in the competition; ONE Webster will find out if they've won on April 7. Members were thankful and ready to find out the outcome. WU students can vote online at www.one.org/campus.com next week.
"We are planning on advertising so everyone knows when to vote," Stevens said.
The chant "We are ONE" lingered after the event ended and the ONE Webster group had finished with a group hug.
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