OSPIRG, residence halls combat hunger
Adam Amato Emerald
Freshman Justin Richardson, a resident of Cloran Hall,
donates ramen noodles and potato chips Sunday for
a food drive competition happening every weekend
throughout the holidays in the Hamilton Complex.
Students can now donate
food items in the Hamilton
Complex to help reduce
hunger during the holidays
Andrew Shipley
Freelance Reporter
It’s that time of the year again,
when many people can’t resist
thoughts of juicy turkey, home
made stuffing and the feasting
and celebration that is fast ap
proaching. Unfortunately, an
alarming number of Oregonians
are hungry during the holiday
season, and University students
want to help.
OSPIRG and the Hamilton
Complex residence hall staff will
combat hunger in Eugene by col
lecting student donations at the
Grab ’N Go, located in the Hamil
ton lounge, every weekend
throughout the holiday season.
Hamilton resident assistants
Nicole Shanahan and Natalie
Lindhorst-Ballast are responsible
for initiating Hamilton Complex’s
first food drive. It is a competition
among Hamilton’s 10 halls. The
drive, which began Sept. 8, allows
students to donate items they
purchase at the Grab ’NT Go at
bins placed in each hall’s lounge.
These bins will be available to stu
dents every Saturday and Sunday
throughout November.
“We thought that by having our
food drive as a competition be
tween the halls, that it would be an
even greater incentive for residents
to donate food,” Shanahan said.
Lindhorst-Ballast and Shana
han say they hope the Hamilton
food drive will do more than sim
ply gather nonperishables.
“One of the major goals is to
bring about an awareness about
the issue of hunger,” Lindhorst
Ballast said. “To hopefully let resi
dents know that people are not
just hungry around the holiday
seasons but throughout the rest of
the year.”
OSPIRG will also collect dona
tions in front of the Grab ’N’ Go
on Saturdays throughout the
year, according to organizer
Nathan Sutton.
“We tend to give up on hunger,”
Sutton said. “We see it as a for
eign, hopeless problem and ig
nore it. For that reason, most stu
dents are not well informed.”
However, he said the success of
the OSPIRG food drive, which
kicked off two weekends ago,
shows students’ concern. In the
first week, OSPIRG collected 154
pounds of food, which can pro
vide an estimated 308 meals or
feed a family of four for about 77
days, according to Food for Lane
County, a nonprofit organization
that distributes donations around
the community.
Food from the Hamilton compe
tition has not yet been counted.
Shanahan said she doesn’t think
having several food drives will affect
overall contributions adversely.
“We feel that if there are a
number of food drives going on at
once, it just raises more aware
ness about hunger,” she said. “We
feel that the more food drives that
are going on, the more opportuni
ties residents have to donate.”
Freshman Bo Caldwell donated
food through OSPIRG.
“I think it is a great idea. People
just end up wasting points at the
end of the week, now they can do
something really positive instead.”
According to data collected by
the U.S. Census Bureau and the
Department of Agriculture, Oregon
"We feel that if there
are a number of food
drives going on at
once, it just raises
more awareness
about hunger"
Nicole Shanahan
Hamilton resident
assistant
trails only Texas and New Mexico
with the third most severe hunger
problem in the country. About 12.3
percent of Oregon households are
classified as “food insecure,” with
5.7 percent of households going
hungry every night.
Andrew Shipley is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
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