UNIVERSITY
Group uses vacations to help poor
By Carrie Dennett
Emerald Reporter
This year, somo Oregon col
loge students have tradod in the
traditional vacations of sleep
ing until noon and catching up
on the latest movies for one
that makes a difference in their
lives and the lives of others —
helping Portland's poor.
"It's a great way to spend
your vacation ... It's not an aca
demic oxporlonco, so you really
uro getting a vacation.” said
Scott Hamilton, co-projoct man
ager of tho Altomativo Break
Coalition.
Tho project is now opening
its doors to tho University. Al
ready. students from Oregon
State. Portland Stato, Willam
otto, Lewis and Clark, Reed,
Warnor Pacific and tho
Multnomah School of the Bible
have committer! part of their
vacations to this project
ABC's purpose is to provide
college students with tho op
portunity to learn about pover
ty by experiencing it in North
and Northeast Portland, and to
provide volunteer assistance to
social servico/justico organiza
tions in that area.
Hamilton said that whilo tho
experience is not academic It
self, it allows students to tako
what they learned in school
and apply it to the real world. It
also gives them an opportunity
to learn about themselves.
During tho winter break, 37
volunteers put in a total of
1600 hours at 17 different agon
cios.
At Lewis and Clark's alterna
tive break over Thanksgiving,
11 volunteers cooked a turkey
dinner for- three families.
"When dinnor was ready, ev
eryone wont to the tablo.”
Hamilton said. "There was
kind of a pause, and we didn't
know if wo should say grace or
not, because the families came
from difToront backgrounds.
“Then, ono littlo girl said
‘why don’t we all say what
we're thankful for.' So wo wont
around tho lahlo, and everyone
said why they wore thankful. It
was so obvious what wo should
have done, yet no one said It
except for that little girl."
AHC Is hoping to get 60 vol
unteers for tho next alternative
break, which will run from
Mar. 16 to Mar. 23. The cost is
$45 per person, which covers
food, housing and transporta
tion in Portland.
An informational mooting Is
scheduled for Tuedsay, Fob. 19
at 7 p.m. In Cedar Room D. For
morn information, students can
contact Hamilton or Koth in
Portland at 2B7-6996 or Navo
Schildbach of OSPIRG s Hun
gor and Homolnssnoss group at
346-4377.
Tho altornutivo break idea Ihi
gan when Hamilton and tho
projocts founder, Kont Koth.
wore studonts at Crinnell Col
lego in Iowa. Koth got tho idea
to bring tho projoct to Portland
after spending tho summer of
1989 working as an intern at
tho Sunnysidn United Method
ist Family shelter.
Koth was able to coordinate
the projoct in Portland through
n grant from tho New England
Electric Company in Westbor
ough. Mass., which allows re
cent college graduates to pur
sue public service projects.
Futuro fundraising will bo
made easier by ABC’s inclusion
In Portland's Center for Urban
Education, which gives them
non-profit stHtus.
Nicaraguan poet to visit University
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerald Reporter
Ernesto Cantonal, a well-known pcxit and priest
in Nicaragua, will make his first visit to the Uni
versity on Sunday for a poetry reading at 7:30
p.m. in the EMU Ballroom.
"He writes the kind of poetry that speaks to you
about what you soo In the world," said University
student Carlos Castro, a native Nicaraguan and
mornber of the Latin American Support Commit
toe.
Cardenal touches on all subjects In his writings,
('.astro said.
"He has so many aspects, as a poet, a revolu
tionary and a priest.” he said. "He also writes his
torical poems. Ho call toll you a whole book of
history in a poem.”
In 1965. (^ardonal founded tho Solontinamo
community in Nicaragua, whore ho developed co
operatives and creator! a school of primitive
painting, along with establishing church services.
In 1977, however, the community was destroyed
by Somoza's Guardsmen.
During the Sandlnista rule of the 1980's, Car
dona I was the Minister of Culture.
C.ardenal is currently working with the non
profit organization La Casa do lus Tres Mundos
(The House of Three Worlds), a group which pro
motes painting and poetry in Nicaragua The
name refers to First, Second and Third World na
tions. Castro said.
"His poetry crosses such things as class and
color," Castro said.
All procoeds from the event, sponsored by
LAST and The Council for Human Rights In Latin
American, will go to support La Casa de las Tres
Mundos. General admission tickets are $»> in ad
vance and S7 at the door. For students and se
niors, tickets are S4 In advance and SS at the
door.
Tickets am available at the FMIJ Main Dosk,
Hult Center. Hungry Head Bookstore and Ballad
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