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Political science Professor Kenneth DeBevoise has students lead lectures in his Tuesday class. DeBevoise has pledged $500 of his own
money toward social services if 30 students each donate $100. "I at least make a salary.” DeBevoise said.
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pay extra taxes to support social serv
ices.
Forty-six of the students said yes,
and Sorgen decided to challenge
their claims.
"Yeah, right," Borgen remem
bered thinking.
This led Borgen to propose a radical
plan: If 30 students in the class pledged
$ 100 of their own money to go toward
social services, Borgen would con
tribute $500. When she pitched her
idea to DeBevoise, the professor of
fered to throw in $500 himself.
"I at least make a salary," DeBevoise
said. "Plus, I think it's a great idea."
Now the class is in the midst of a
drive to raise the $4,000 for a social
service charity.
"All of this was kind of inspired by
inner-city poverty," Borgen said. "I was
kind of excited about the prospect of
organizing and getting involved."
The students in the class have
formed a committee to decide where
the money, if it materializes, should go.
The committee has narrowed the list of
organizations down to three: Women
space, a domestic violence organiza
tion; Looking Glass, a child welfare or
ganization; and Parent Partnership, a
South Lane County organization that
strives to improve parenting skills and
promote healthy development of fam
ilies in rural areas.
The committee will meet with rep
resentatives of the three organiza
tions on Friday and come to a deci
sion soon thereafter.
While DeBevoise's class focuses on
inner-city problems, one student said
that many of the issues — poverty,
welfare and a lack of good jobs —
plague rural Oregon as well.
"These are the same problems that
we're dealing with in Cottage Grove,"
Jake Clark, a 27-year-old student,
said. "It doesn't take an inner city to
have these problems."
While the fund-raising effort is led by
students, DeBevoise remains an enthu
siastic observer. Often dressed in jeans
and a beat-up Boston Red Sox hat, De
Bevoise poses questions to his class
such as: "Is idleness a ghetto value?"
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DeBevoise's students said his class
es are unique.
"I think Ken's nature is open and
welcome," Borgen said. "He kind of
embraces the bizarre."
Borgen said that there is a good
chance the class will be able to raise the
$4,000 and perhaps significantly more
"There's an off chance that we might
get an outside sponsor," Borgen said.
"We could get upwards of $ 10,000."
As for Borgen, she doesn't regret
her extraordinary pledge.
"Sure, I'll miss my folks and friends
back home," the Alaska native said.
"(But) if we can help a charity that
keeps one family together, I'm com
pletely willing to make that sacrifice."
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reporter
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