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Take a break to volunteer
■ Volunteer opportunities
abound both on and off
campus for interested
students this spring break
By Anna Seeley
for the Emerald
For many students, spring break
is a week away from homework,
teachers and lectures.
Instead of spending it lounging in
front of the television and eating
junk food, why not spend some
time out in the community volun
teering? Whether it’s working at a
soup kitchen, working with trou
bled youths or just picking up trash
at a neighborhood park, volunteer
work is often appreciated.
A good place to start a quest to
volunteer is at the Community In
ternship Program’s office, located in
the breezeway of the EMU. There,
staff members are available to help
point students in the right direction
to get information on a group or or
ganization they would be interested
in volunteering for.
“We are the link between the
community and students,” said
Marcella Marchesano, the CIP exec
utive director. “We offer programs
based on experiential learning and
hands-on learning.”
The CIP helps place students in
programs in many areas, including
leadership, mentorship, public
schools, outdoor schools and Build
ing Blocks. Students can get in
volved teaching middle schooLstu
dents about higher education, or
working with at-risk youths one-on
one. Students can even receive aca
demic credit, depending on how
many hours they work.
“Most organizations are looking
for kids with a good work ethic,
good academic standing, and who
are dedicated and really interested
in learning,” Marchesano said.
Another place on campus that
can always use an extra hand is the
Women’s Center.
“The Women’s Center offers a
community of women dedicated to
creating social change through edu
cational endeavors and social
events,” said Lori Brown, the office
coordinator. “We offer drop-in refer
ral services on issues pertaining to
women, such as safety, LGBTA, is
sues and child care.”
Volunteers at the Women’s Center
can also get involved in organizing
and planning events such as Take
Back the Night and creating the cen
ter’s newsletter, “The Siren.” The
center also offers internships for its
sexual assault peer support program.
“If people want to get involved on a
one-time basis, they can always hang
up fliers, do follow-up phone calls or
work on our networking list, ” Brown
said. “We provide a learning environ
ment so students don’t need to come
to us with certain skills.”
The YWCA is another group on
campus in need of volunteers.
“Our program aims for gender
equality and diversity,” Director
Kathy Kozlowicz said.
YWCA volunteers would be in
volved in a number of activities, in
cluding event planning, PR and
helping to create the center’s maga
zine, “Identity.”
During spring break, the YWCA
could use volunteers to help plan its
spring events, such as Race Against
Racism.
“We are looking for volunteers
who are organized and can follow
through,” Kozlowicz said. “Volun
teers would be working without a
lot of supervision, so they need to
be responsible and willing to learn.”
Get involved during
spring break:
Women’s Center— 346-4095
YWCA—call Kathy Kozlowiczat
346-4439
Red Cross—344-5244 or e-mail
info@usa.redcross.org, or visit
www.redcross.org
Salvation Army—343-3341, or visit
www.salvationarmy.org
Community Internship Program —
346-4351
For students who are not spend
ing spring break in Eugene, there are
many volunteering opportunities
nationwide. For example, local
public schools, day-care centers, or
youth programs can use volunteers.
Organizations such as the American
Red Cross and the Salvation Army
have offices and programs in many
cities across the country and need a
great number of volunteers.
“We have over 900 volunteers in
Lane County,” said Marianne
Ansart, Red Cross health and safety
and volunteer director. “We always
need volunteers. We never have
enough of them.”
Red Cross volunteers are in
volved in a variety of different pro
grams including Meals on Wheels,
youth programs, first aid, CPR and
safety classes, and the disaster serv
ice. Volunteers do things such as de
liver and package meals or help
with fundraising.
Volunteer work doesn’t require a
lot of knowledge or experience. All
volunteers need are time, dedica
tion, and a caring heart.
“Volunteers really don’t need to
have any certain skills,” Ansart
said. “Just a willingness to want to
volunteer.”
Africa
continued from page 6
pose of the symposium is to high
light the importance of Africa and
how central the country is to univer
sity study.
“We’re trying to get Africa on peo
ple’s maps,” he said. “We have a
large African-American population
that has really put a stamp on Amer
ican culture, so we really need to
know about Africa and care about
what’s going on there.”
Gottlieb’s presentation, “The Wis
dom of Children: An Anthropologi
cal Perspective on Engaging African
Modernity,” centered on the beliefs
of the Beng people, an ethnic group
of Africa’s Cote d’Ivoire, and how
Americans need to recognize other
groups’ modernity.
“When thinking about the mod
ern world, we need to expand our
thinking,” she said.
She said it is important to study
African children because there are
more Africans than any other race
on the planet. She said it is also im
portant to study them because thou
sands of African children live on the
streets, are fighting in the country’s
wars and are physically ill.
“Ignoring the children of Africa
would be ignoring the continent,”
she said.
Gottlieb spent several years in
Africa, researching the Beng people.
She said they believe when ba
bies are born they are still in the
Wrugbe state, which is both the af
terlife and the before-life.
Gottlieb said the group believes
children are reincarnated and have
a great deal more mental and spiri
tual power than adults realize.
“To them, babies have desires but
are unsure how to compiunicate
them directly,” she said.
Gottlieb said she learned of one
Beng family whose newborn baby
was unhappy and constantly cry
Tom Patterson Emerald
Acclaimed cultural anthropologist Alma Gottlieb speaks in Gerlinger Hall.
ing. Spiritual individuals in the vil
lage told the parents the baby was
unhappy with his name because it
did not reflect his name in his for
mer Wrugbe life. She said the family
changed his name and the baby
seemed happier.
“The children need to be viewed
as respected people because that’s
the way it was for them elsewhere,”
she said.
Gottlieb said the Beng people
use another belief to explain the
country’s high infant mortality
rate. She said they believe that if
parents mistreat their babies in
some way, either physically or
mentally, the Wrugbe people will
reclaim them. In other words, the
children die to return to their for
mer lives, she said.
Monica Price, a senior anthropolo
gy major, attended Gottlieb’s presen
tation and said Americans often have
a common misconception that other
countries aren’t as developed and
modem as their own country. She
What: Engaging Africa: A
Symposium Exploring the Future of
African Studies
Where: Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
Cost: Free
When: Today, Mar. 2
9:30a.m.-12p.m.: Panel
Presentations and Discussion
7:30 p.m.: Mongo Beti,
Cameroonian novelist: “How can
one be a writer in an
underdeveloped country?”
For more information, call the
Oregon Humanities Center at
346-3934.
said the independent beliefs of the
Beng people show that they are more
advanced than others might think.
“Both West Europeans and Amer
icans have consistently seen them
selves as more modern but clearly
we’re not better than anyone else,”
she said.