Group weaves warmth for premature babies
The University Student Fibers Guild will host a series
of volunteer workshops throughout fall term
BY CASSIE DEFILLIPO
FREELANCE REPORTER
Last year, two women with a vi
sion decided to aid non-profit organi
zations while doing something they
love. These women founded the Uni
versity Student Fibers Guild. The
USFG is a campus organization that
knits items such as blankets and hats
to donate to non-profit groups.
Although the organization official
Asher Morris, co-founder and co
president ofUSFG.
The March of Dimes, established
in 1938 by Franklin Delano Roo
sevelt, originally fought against polio.
After a cure for polio was found, the
organization switched its attention to
aid premature babies. The March of
Dimes offers advice for expectant
parents and funds genetic research.
“Premature babies affect 460,000
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afghan for Womenspace, a women’s
shelter, along with 15 premature
baby hats for the March of Dimes.
“This way we could raise awareness
for the shelter and encourage
volunteering on campus, while
sticking to our talents,” said Sara
known reasons,” said Aimee Knabe,
the Southern Oregon division direc
tor for the March of Dimes.
“Preemie babies are born so tiny
that normal clothes don’t fit them,”
Morris said.
Knabe said the hats for preemie
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babies will stay in this area. They will
be given to the local Neonatal Inten
sive Care Unit.
The USFG has a number of events
planned this year to get students in
volved and to raise awareness for its
causes, including three more volun
teer workshops this term in the EMU.
At these workshops, volunteers will
get free lessons on how to knit and
crochet. All volunteers will be asked
to donate a 6-by-6 inch square for the
afghan that will go to Womenspace.
“We plan to teach whoever is inter
ested how to knit,” said USFG Co
founder and Co-president Yvonne
Ellsworth. “The project we are plan
ning is that they knit one 6-by-6 inch
square for the afghan and one for
themselves.”
These volunteer workshops will be
held on Oct. 31, Nov. 7 and Nov. 21.
Each of the workshops will take
place on a Sunday and will last from
2 to 4 p.m. in the Ben Linder Room in
the EMU.
The USFG also plans to teach stu
dents to knit through Spin-Out Days.
The group will use a booth in the
EMU to teach passersby knitting
techniques. The Guild provides all
the supplies necessary, and by
standers who partake in the knitting
will learn how to spin, knit and
weave at no cost. The Guild has one
Spin-Out Day scheduled for Friday,
Nov. 5.
Morris and Ellsworth founded the
USFG after the two were in a class to
gether. Both had been involved with
guilds before and decided to start
their own that was affiliated with the
University.
“1 wanted to get other enthusiasts
together, because it’s so much more
fun to work in a group, and I really
wanted to try and get something
done with a student organization,”
Morris said. “I have done volunteer
Danielle Hickey | Photo editor
Sophomore Katy Wolf learns to knit as student members of Oregon Fibers prepare to
make an afghan for Womenspace.
work since I was a child and love the
fact that fiber arts can be applied to
volunteering in so many ways.”
Membership in the Guild costs five
dollars a term, and includes a re
duced workshop fee, the ability to at
tend Guild field trips and a dual
membership to the Association of
Northwest Weavers’ Guilds.
Cassie DeFillipo is a freelance
reporter for the Daily Emerald
Brazil: Uranium is for peaceful purposes
Continued from page 4
Minister Celso Amorim, denied that
Brazil's reluctance to provide inspec
tors full access to their uranium en
richment facilities played to the inter
ests of North Korea and Iraq.
“1 don’t believe whatever arrange
ment Brazil and the IAEA come to
would in any way give either North
Korea or Iran any additional bargain
ing power with the IAEA,” Powell said.
Brazil has refused to let IAEA in
spectors view the centrifuges at its
uranium enrichment plant in the
state of Rio de Janeiro.
While Brazil has repeatedly
insisted that it is enriching uranium
purely for peaceful purposes, officials
claim that allowing U.N. inspectors
to view the centrifuges could lead to
industrial espionage.
“Brazil has nothing to hide with
respect to its process of enriching
uranium, except with the technology
Brazil acquired and has a natural
desire to protect,” Amorim
said Tuesday.
The impasse comes at a time
when the IAEA is trying to rein in
countries such as North Korea and
Iran, who it fears want to use their
nuclear know-how to develop
weapons.
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Meanwhile, Powell said Washing
ton recognized Brazil's desire to join
the United Nations Security Council
and was awaiting a panel report on a
possible expansion. Brazilian officials
were expected to tell Powell of their
interest in obtaining a permanent
council seat.
Powell said Brazil would be a “sol
id candidate” for membership if the
panel recommends it.
Powell also discussed Silva's call to
promote an international campaign
against hunger and said that while
they agreed in principle there were
differences how to achieve that goal.
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