Profiles
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“I am happy that I joined Zeta Phi
Beta,” she said. “It has allowed me
to meet people I would never had
met and do things like host the step
show, which I put together.”
Even so, when reflecting on the
past five years, one regret of Haqq’s
is “not being involved more” on
campus.
She plans to stay in Eugene this
summer and work at the Boys and
Girls Club, a job she’s had since
August.. Recently promoted to
team director, Haqq will be taking
on new responsibilities as a public
relations contact, a club liaison
and a counselor to teens from local
high schools.
“The club gives high school stu
dents somewhere to go after school,
before they go home,” she said. “It
has allowed me to make a connec
tion with kids I would never have
considered, and I wouldn’t change
that for the world.”
Haqq said she’s ready to graduate,
but feelings of both excitement and
apprehension about the future are
closing in.
“Much more is expected of you in
what people call ‘the real world’,”
she said. “Once you’re there, it’s all
about working and making change.
— Caron Alarab
Designed to help
new students
When Collins Makunda was
growing up, he collected stamps,
but he never thought he’d get the
opportunity to
meet people at
the University
from the coun
tries where
those stamps
originated.
Since fall
1999, the
Kenya native
has been a
Duck, and he
will earn his master’s degree in Inte
rior Architecture upon graduation.
He was the recipient, at the Univer
sity awards ceremony, of the
Friendship Foundation’s Outstand
ing Student Merit Award. Recently,
Makunda presented his final interi
or design presentation, a theoretical
Center for African Studies in Port
land. He has been working on this
project all year, which often meant
an average of three hours of sleep
per night.
Golda Portillo, the International
Student Association’s program co
ordinator, said Makunda’s commit
ted service to campus and upbeat
personality will be missed.
“He’s a very energetic person,”
she said. “Whenever he helps out,
he’s so enthusiastic. He brightens
up the room.”
Makunda has worked as an in
tern with the ISA, a volunteer in
the Office of International Pro
grams, and a participant in Cam
pus Crusade for Christ, as well as
serving in the African Students
Association. Makunda said he en
joys offering his resources to new
graduate students who come to
the University.
“It’s thrilling just to help people,”
he said. “I’m the first person, the
first contact, for people when they
come here.”
But when he’s not studying or
volunteering, he said he enjoys hik
ing and traveling.
“Being outdoors has helped me
to feel at home in Oregon and re
connected to my own country,” he
said. “Seeing trees, I always feel re
freshed.”
After a relaxing summer break,
he plans to participate in a year
long practical training program in
interior architecture in the United
States, then earn his doctorate.
Makunda said he eventually plans
to return to Kenya to start his own
architecture firm and teach at the
University of Nairobi.
— Lisa Toth
Healing the sick
helps the heart
After graduation, Amy Biggs is
off to heal the world — some more.
During a study abroad medical in
ternship to
Zimbabwe,
Africa, Biggs
delivered three
babies in one
hour, by herself.
Biggs, an
Honors College
student who is
graduating
with a degree
in general sci
ence this term,
is working to become a doctor.
“I have a strong desire to help
provide health care to all levels of
people,” Biggs said.
She said she believes there is a
big discrepancy in health care
around the world. During her four
years at the University, she said she
has been working to change that,
here and abroad.
During her six months in Africa,
Biggs said she was able to help
those most in need as she worked
delivering babies, providing basic
health services and assisting with
surgeries.
Here in Eugene, while taking pre
med courses, she has been involved
with the Student Health Advisory
Committee for three years and this
year she served as the committee’s
chairwoman. Biggs worked to get
more student voices heard on is
sues such as the renovation of the
University Health Center and the
search for a new Health Center di
rector, she said.
After graduation, Biggs will be
applying to medical school and get
ting married.
“I plan to eventually go into pri
mary care here in the States, and
then go abroad to do humanitarian
work,” Biggs said.
— Katie Franz
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