Adam Jones Emerald
Shirley Tham works to cultivate the soil at Churchill Garden, run by FOOD for Lane County, Saturday morning as part of a 24-hour hunger
strike sponsored by the Newman Center campus ministry. The volunteers also donated $1,000 to the FOOD for Lane County food bank.
University students acquire
new perspective on hunger
■ In honor of Lent, participants
fasted for 24 hours, volunteered
at a community garden and
donated $1,000 to the food bank
By Danielle Gillespie
Oregon Daily Emerald
For student parishioners of the
Newman Center, a Catholic campus
ministry, this weekend proved to be
an eye-opening experience about
the realities of worldwide hunger.
At noon Friday, about 25 New
man Center members began a
24-hour fast in honor of Lent, a
Christian tradition, which begins
on Ash Wednesday and ends on
Palm Sunday, or from Feb. 13 to
March 24 this year.
During the fast, the group volun
teered to work at Churchill Garden
and donated $1,000 to the FOOD
for Lane County food bank.
The food bank collects and dis
tributes food to a network of 100
agencies and programs in Lane
County, and provides for the emer
gency-food needs of one in five
Lane County residents.
To raise the $1,000, Newman
Center members each donated
money he or she would have spent
on food and entertainment’during
the 24-hour time period of the fast,
and many fellow church members
also contributed money for
the cause.
“It’s a chance for us to raise mon
ey and give back to the community
as well as grow spiritually,” Univer
sity student Justin Zuiker said.
To begin the fast, members par
ticipated in an all night lock-in that
began 6 p.m. Friday at the Newman
Center. During the lock-in, each
person said their reasons for partic
ipating in the hunger strike, ranging
from personal experience with
hunger to wanting to help others in
need. A nun led the group in prayer
and discussion about hunger.
In the final two hours of the
group’s fast, members volunteered
their time working in Churchill
Garden, the youngest of three gar
dens owned by FOOD for Lane
County in the Eugene area.
In the three gardens, FOOD for
Lane County grows organic food for
distribution in the community. The
organization also provides individ
ual families with plots of land for
gardening and teaches them how to
grow their own food.
Zuiker said Newman Center
members wanted to work at the gar
den near the end of the fast, in their
hungriest moments, to learn to ap
preciate the many blessings in
their lives.
With a pitchfork in hand, pulling
weeds for compost beds, University
student Carla Zilaff said she decid
ed to volunteer her time because it
supported a good cause.
“It didn’t cross my mind not to,”
she said.
Working next to Zilaff, Universi
ty student Gabriela Serrano agreed
and said, “It has been a really good
learning experience and I know’
that it will help people in the
long run.”
FOOD for Lane County garden co
ordinator Jen Anonia said the organ
ization truly appreciates the New
man Center’s help with the gardens,
and the effort is just one step toward
the organization’s goal of distribut
ing 6 million pounds of food
throughout Lane County this year.
“This garden wouldn’t exist
without the help of the communi
ty," she said. "It’s a challenging time
to get help this time of year because
it is cold and wet, but it’s nice to
have people do the less glamorous
gardening work.”
To end the 24-hour fast, members
had a free meal at the Newman
Center, and many admitted to
being hungry.
“Part of the time you don’t notice
it, but then you think about how
hungry you are and you want a piz
za, but then you remember, oh,
yeah, I can’t,” University student
Ben Swagerty said.
Zuiker said he, too, felt hungry
but realized that his hunger did not
parallel the hunger of others living
in poverty around the world.
“What we think of hunger is
nothing compared to the millions
of people who really experience it,”
he said.
E-mail reporter Danielle Gillespie
at daniellegillespie@dailyemerald.com.
News briefs
School of Law
announces new dean
The School of Law announced
Friday that evidence and jurispru
dence law Professor Laird Kirk
patrick will become dean of the
school when Dean Renard Strick
land steps down in August.
Kirkpatrick previously served as
an interim dean in 1980, and cur
rently teaches jurisprudence cours
es at the law school. He will offi
cially become dean Aug. 1.
Kirkpatrick is co-author of “Evi
dence Under the Rules,” a popular
text in American law schools, and
author of a leading Oregon treatise
on legal evidence. He also co-au
thored a five-volume treatise on
federal evidence that has found its
way into federal court citations and
U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
He recently returned from a two
year appointment in Washington,
D.C., where he served as counsel to
the head of the Criminal Division at
the U.S. Department of Justice.
Kirkpatrick was born in Min
neapolis, Minn., earned his Bache
lor of Arts degree, cum laude, from
Harvard University in 1965, and
his Juris Doctor degree from the
University in 1968.
This term, Kirkpatrick has also
been a visiting professor at the Uni
versity of California Hastings Col
lege of Law in San Francisco.
—Jeremy Lang
Vistorto discuss University’s
diversity recommendations
Western Michigan University
President Elson S. Floyd will visit
the University on Monday to discuss
his report on diversity programs at
the University in an open forum from
4:30 to 6 p.m. in 100 Willamette.
Floyd, recently named to the
President’s Board of Advisors on
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities by President George
W. Bush, visited the University-July
7 through 9 and Oct. 19 through 23,
2001, to review the University’s di
versity programs and compiled his
findings in a report that praises the
administration’s diversity initia
tives and commitment to promote a
welcoming campus environment.
Floyd will make a number of rec
ommendations to the University,
including clarifying the role of the
Office of Multicultural Affairs, de
veloping a communication plan to
respond to a number of diversity re
ports submitted by various student
and faculty groups during the past
several years, and redefining the
mission of the Center on Diversity
and Community.
Copies of the report are available
at http://provost.uoregon.edu.
— Katie Ellis
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