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Q^«v L«a!X:.MLiP*»l III News ITic Blue Banner Sening the University' of North Carolina at Asheville since 1982 August 31, 2006 1 I Contributed by Jonathan Barnes The students who traveled to Kenya several weeks this summer held some of the babies from the New Life Homes orphana)>e. IJNC Asheville’s chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign raises money for the Amani Foundation, which is one of the primary supporters of the New Life Homes orphanages. Kenya continued from page 1 orphanages. "We worked at New Life Homes taking care of the babies, doing laundry, changing diapers, making food and all that stuff,” said Elizabeth Morgan, senior art major. “I fell in love with a baby named Annette.” Barnes said his favorite experi ence of the trip was an adoption party. “We came in, and there was a family all dressed up, and there’s a little girl in this beautiful dress who we had been playing w'ith before,” Btu'iies said. "She was adopted. They were having a party with cake and celebrating this adoption. It was just beautiful.” Barnes said he would like to see the Amani Foundation, a group that funds the New Life Homes and sponsored the trip, build more orphanages. “There are 2,1 million orphans in Kenya,” Barnes said. “There are 12 million in Africa, but you've got to start somewhere. So 1 think if we can get New Life Homes into each of the eight provinces of Kenya, .so there’s a home in each province, from there we can spread out through East Africa and tackle some bigger issues.” UNC Asheville’s chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign raises money for the Amani Foundation. “Without the donations of people from North Carolina, that home (an orphanage in Nakuru) would not have opened,” Barnes said. “Because of the Amani Foundation, that home opened, 'fhey gave those 13 children another chance at life, because those children were abandoned in the streets.” Students also saw the second- largest slum in Africa. Literature and language student Ben Cox lived in a neighborhood next to the Kibera Slums for most of the summer, not as an Amani Scholar, but with a grant to do undergraduate research. “Kibera Slums has close to a million people in about 25 square miles of land,” Cox said. “They don't have any sort of plumbing. They don’t have government sub sidies because this is government property that they’re living on— illegally living on.” Sitting in the gazebo on UNC Asheville’s campus, Cox com pared the structure to houses in the slums. “Imagine this gazebo,” Cox said. ‘This is two houses. Split it down the middle. That’s a house here for a mother, a husband and maybe three kids. Most of our bedrooms are bigger than this. It makes you realize the insignificance of mate rial, of what you really have.” Barnes described the slums fur ther. “In between rows of tin-roof shacks there are ditches with waste in them, and then there are really thin livestock that are grazing on whatever they can find,” Barnes said. He said the circumstances are hard for some people to compre hend. “Seventy percent of the people that live there are HIV-positive, and to me, I can’t imagine living in such poverty and having to deal with a mother dying,” Barnes said. Celebrating everything organic! I Jcln the cdcbra(lon...Or9an(c music, lood. goeds, activities t Tun! I Pure Ffxxi Partners' ^ ^ I ‘ Free Ticket for a chance to WIN an Organiefest Organic Basket Drawing 10am- 6pm Battery Park Ava OotuT^tewn AahoviM^i Complete tickdt and bring to Pure F006 Partners' Organiefest on Saptambaf 9tn to enter a draviring for a fabukHis basket fitted with organic goodiea ar»d gifts? 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And don’t forget Family Weekend Sept. 15-17! www.unca.edu/insrallaiion www.unca.edu/family r New faculty member encourages an improved student experience By Christa Chappelle Staff Writer By incorporating academic life into the student affairs division Bill Haggard, the new vice chan cellor of student affairs, plans on improving the entire student experience at UNC Asheville. ‘The university already has an outstanding academic reputation, an outstanding reputation for good faculty and good faculty- student relationships,” Haggard said. “If s my goal that the univer sity is also known for, and clearly provides, one of the best student experiences anywhere.” While, historically, student affairs divisions have worked exclusively on programs outside of academics, the direction of the department has changed in recent years. “Most recently, student affairs nationally has been reshaping itself to be more about the total student experience, helping to foster student learning and to pro vide a very integrated learning experience for students,” Haggard said. Haggard, previously the associ ate vice chancellor of student affairs at Western Carolina University, joined UNC Asheville in July to help re-establish the stu dent affairs division on campus. Provost Mark Padilla led the divi sion from March 2004 until this August. “This re-establishment of the division was to insure that this university was putting the appro priate energy into a high quality student experience,” Haggard said. Haggard said he chose to lead the new division because UNC Asheville has more potential to become a university that provides a valuable student experience. The division of student affairs contains the residential and citi zenship education programs, din ing services, the Highsmith University Union and various departments that affect a student’s experience outside the classroom. Dean of Students Jackie McHargue and Director of Campus Life Calvin Kelly also recently joined the campus with Haggard. The student affairs division encourages students to become active members in their commu nities and learn how to apply their education outside of the class room,’ according to Haggard. “It’s the responsibility of all the functional areas in student affairs to encourage students to become fully engaged in their acadeniic work, fully engaged in being a productive member of the univer sity community and fully engaged with all of the learning opportuni ties,” Haggard said. The division provides unity among the departments under it. This will benefit students on cam pus, according to John Bucher, director of campus recreation and the Highsmith University Union. “For the first time in a long time, we’ll know that we have some shared goals, and we’ll work towards those together’ Bucher said. “Students will noticH people like me are happier an3 getting along better, and hopefulJ ly doing our jobs better.” 1 With this new sense of teamJ work, students will see more diverse activities happening at thei Highsmith University Union! according to Bucher. Even more than we have in the past, we’ll see things going on here, and things that are not justi product of the Highsmith sm| but are products of other areas on| campus,” Bucher said. “Ideally! there will be more types of (activ J ities) going on here.” I Not only will students leamj how to apply their education tof areas outside of the classroom,} but they will learn other skills that} are necessary for success beyond} college, according to Bucher. I “Hopefully some of the things! they get from student affairs are} things that are really going to help! them when they get out of collegel and have to have a real job and} have some real consequences for} how they perform,” Bucher said.j “Some of that they can pick up inj class and some of that they can’t.”} Students learn skills such as| time management and leadership! through student organizations,] according to Carrie Jordan, junior] history student, who joined the] Student History Association, the] Humanities Student History] Association and University] Ambassadors. 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