Community program offers
students RARE opportunity
■A one-year public planning
program gives students valuable
experience while allowing them
to earn school credit and wages
By LaBree Shide
for the Emerald
The Resource Assistance for
Rural Environments program gives
graduates the chance to be in
volved in community programs
across Oregon. The deadline to ap
ply for fall departures is June 14.
Students will have the chance to
gain experience, earn graduate
credits and a salary.
RARE is a one-year program of
fered through the University that
allows students to assist in making
rural communities in Oregon more
sustainable. Rose Armour, field co
ordinator for RARE, said she thinks
the program offers more to a gradu
ate than a typical entry-level job.
“This is definitely not an entry
level position. You’re going to have
an actual project that you're going
to do, and you’re going to be re
sponsible for a lot of the help in
managing,” Armour said.
Projects for the RARE program
range from community planning to
helping develop small businesses.
Program Director Megan Smith said
RARE works with all majors.
News brief
BSU vocally celebrates
Malcolm X’s birthday
He took the name “X” as a sym
bol of the stolen identity of
African slaves and became a mar
tyr for the idea of black power af
ter his assassination less than
four decades ago. He was a force,
a mind and a voice during the
civil rights movement of the
1950s and ’60s.
Today the Black Student Union
will make his voice and others
echo across campus. In a celebra
tion of black history and leader
ship, audio tapes of speeches
made by Malcolm X and other in
fluential black leaders will be
played at the EMU Amphitheater
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
An open mic will be available to
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dent administrators thought the
intentions of the group never
panned out.
“The SARO was very unsuccess
ful,” EMU Board Chairwoman
Christa Shively said.
She said the EMU Board saw
problems in a lack of output from
the group, and in students not be
ing actively involvement.
“We found students passionate
about leadership, but not passion
ate about SARO,” she said. “There
was a lot of discontent.”
She said although the board
could have continued to fund
SARO and simply moved its office
space away from the UO Cultural
Forum, they instead opted to start
from scratch and sever some asso
ciations to the previous program.
“For students wanting to get in
volved, it’s so important to have
that resource,” said Megan Hugh
es a student on the committee
drafting the center’s mission
statement.
They hope to fund the leadership
center with only some student fees
and eventually let the program
stand on its own financially.with
“The projects can be specific to
their interests and career goals,”
Smith said. “Someone interested in
working with youth might work in
a small town that needs to develop a
literacy program. On the other end
of the spectrum, an individual inter
ested in natural resource manage
ment could spend the year working
with a watershed council.”
Program participants are expect
ed to live in the communities they
are placed in and work for a total of
1,700 hours during 11 or 12
months. Participants will receive a
$1,250 monthly living stipend plus
medical insurance and are eligible
for an educational award of $4,725
from AmeriCorps upon the com
pletion of the program. There is
also an option to receive up to nine
graduate school credits from the
University community and region
al planning program.
Jessica Cagle, a journalism major,
is a graduating senior considering
applying to the RARE program.
“It’s kind of scary. I don't know
what I am going to be doing after
graduation,” Cagle said.
Cagle said her interest in RARE
extends from her background in
volunteering.
“I really like the idea of working
in a community and getting to
know people,” she said.
those who want to make personal
statements, but the overall goal of
the afternoon is to allow students
to listen to the speeches while
walking to and from class, BSU
Co-Director Haben Woldu said.
With his infamous confronta
tional personality and his goal to
achieve Black Power ideals by
“any means necessary,” Malcolm
X is not remembered as a pacifist.
“People usually considered
him too militant or extreme,"
BSU member Bola Majekobaje
said. “We want people to realize
he was a strong African-Ameri
can leader who only wanted
equality and justice.”
Majekobaje, a member of Alpha
Kappa Alpha, one of the two
black sororities on campus, said
the BSU has had several celebra
tions and services in honor of
Martin Luther King Jr. but none
more independent funding.
This time around, people in
volved want to form a coalition in
volving not just student govern
ment, but the Residence Hall
Association, the Greek system and
other student leaders as well.
This primarily student group
will be run without the help of
former SARO coordinator Debra
Martin. Her contract runs through
Feb. 4, but she will not be working
in the new leadership program.
Her last day as SARO coordinator
is June 30.
Right now, organizers are ham
mering out the details of what they
want — and what they don’t — for
students, while getting student sug
gestions for the program.
Buzbee said the EMU conduct
ed a survey in the fall that exam
ined what leadership opportuni
ties students wanted to see.
Students involved with the lead
ership program also conducted
two brainstorming sessions with
other students.
In the responses they have re
ceived, they have seen an over
whelming desire for more venues
for leadership.
“The most dramatic was every
one who responded was interested
To apply for the Resource Assistance
for Rural Environments Program:
Visit http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/
-rare for more information and the
application
Submit applications via e-mail to
rare@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Hand-deliver applications to 113
Hendricks or mail application
materials to: RARE Opportunities,
1209 University of Oregon, Eugene,
OR 97403-1209
Call 346*2879 with questions
If plans beyond graduation are
still unclear for a student, Smith
said, “RARE is a great opportuni
ty to test the career you want to
have before making a lifelong
commitment.”
Armour added, “You get your
feet wet doing it and get all the con
tacts while you decide if this is
where you want to go.”
The RARE program sets up stu
dents for opportunities besides a
job, Armour said, such as graduate
school. “This program, coupled
with an undergraduate degree, is
a great way to sell yourself to a
graduate school.”
LaBree Shide is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
specifically in honor of Malcolm
X. She said she thinks this effort
will show the community just
how powerful and influential he
was as a community leader.
“A lot of people feel very pas
sionately about him and the little
we are doing means so much
more,” she said. Born Malcolm
Little on May 19, 1925, Malcolm
X emerged in the early 1960s as
the foremost advocate of racial
unity and black nationalism. He
was also an advocate for the Na
tion of Islam for a period of his
life. During the civil rights move
ment, he pointed the way to a
new black consciousness that cel
ebrated black history, culture,
heritage and self-sufficiency.
He was assassinated February
21, 1964, during a speech in
Harlem.
— Caron Alarab
in quality leadership in both the ac
ademic and practical sense and
showed a lot of interest in almost
all areas,” Shively said.
One of the team’s initial ideas is
to create a leadership resource li
brary with a network of current
leadership opportunities and tips
on running meetings and other stu
dent activities, Buzbee said.
The program is still in the plan
ning stage, he said, but the group
hopes to have it up and running by
the 2003-04 school year.
Between now and then, the
group will finalize the program’s
mission statement and nail down
the specifics of where to house the
program and how to fund it.
They’re asking students to help
them get the ball rolling.
“This program is fresh and stu
dent-driven,” Buzbee said. “We’re
hoping to have some real motivat
ed people involved on a large
scale,” he said.
Anyone interested in being in
volved with the program can e
mail Shively at cshively@glad
stone.uoregon.edu, Buzbee at
bbuzbee@gladstone.uoregon.edu
or call Buzbee at 346-0625.
E-mail reporter Robin Weber
at robinweber@dailyemerald.com.
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