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mm-uu ^ Vour source for the latest in arts, entertainment and campus life January 24, ZUUZ LEAD Conference offers students skills, ideas Global S.E.R.V.E. offeis spring break alternative The volunteer organization Global S.E.R.V£. is sfxxisoring a trip to Easley, S.C. and Asheville fw spring break. Participants will help build homes for the needy in collaboraticm wifli Habitat for Humanity’s Nationwide Collegiate Qiallenge. The vcJunteers will be leaving Wilmington March 3 and will return March 9. The cost for the trip is $140 per person and anyone can go. Mwiey is due by Feb. 1 to the Center for Leadership Edu cation and Service. Contact Becky Long at 962- 3043 for mcxe information. SBIYs first newsprogram airs Wednesday night Student Body Television will air its newsprogram “Seahawk Central” at 8 p.rtL Jaa 30. The 20-minute program will feature newsbriefs about UNCW and surrounding areas. The show will be a bi-weekly production airing Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. c« Channel 5. The next show will air Feb. 13. Volunteers needed for Woodlot Service Project The Woodlot project involves chopping wood and stacking it into trucks to be delivered to needy homes. The Center fa-Leadership Educaticm and Service and the Salvaticm Army are sponsoring this project from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Jan. 26 and volunteers are needed. Students interested in vol unteering should meet in the University Union Lobby at 8 a.m. for a light breakfast For more information call 962-3877 or stop by UU room 212. Organization collecting personal hygiene donations The Fellowship of Christian University Stu dents is sponsMing a collection of personal hy giene products fw the Domestic Violence Shel ter. The coUecticHi will be Jan. 30 through Feb. 1 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the University Union. Full-sized products are preferred, but any size will KATIE Trapp Leadership skills are extremely beneficial and now UNCW students have the opportunity to gain these skills by attending the 2002 LEAD Ctxi- ference, which will be held Feb. 23 at East Caro lina University. This conference is fw all students, especially students currently in or seeking leadership posi tions in the campus community, such as resident assistants and orientation leaders. There has been a positive reacticm fiom stu dents who have attended this confereiKe in the past, including spphomcve Billie Fleming. ‘This conference helps you build as a person and find your strengths and weaknesses,” Fleming sakl. ‘It’s one of those conferences where you bring back ideas.” One of the important lesscxis she took home with her was that a great leader lis tens to what others have to say. This annual confereiK*, which is sponsored by the North Carolina College Personnel Asso- ciaticsi, is in its seventti year. The NCCPA is an organization that works to educate college stu dents aboittprofessionalism. TheyhoMfourlead- ership conferences a year to acccxnplish this goal. The purpose of this confaence is to teach stu dents leadership skills for professionalism in the real wcsid, said Leslie Rarxl-Pickett, president of NCCPA. Rand- Pickett rs mvolved all aspects of the conference, rtKlud- ing choosing the keynote speaker Last years speaker ogmzed keynote r, Nancy Hunter Denny. This year’s theme is “Survivor Adventures in Leadership: Leam, Explore, Accom plish, Discover.” ^attended the LEAD Conference last year. She ^ wiii^dLigri a works In the Center for Leadership Education and Service. tribal flag pricx-to the trip to hang on the bus they person, but will also gain new skills and infor- will be riding to Greenville. mation about leadership.” Students should take advantage of this oppcw- The cost to attend this conference is $10, tunity because “students make connections and which includes meals, transpotation, a T-shirt, are given die opportunity to outreach to students conference materials and a keynote speaker. The across the state and develop friendships,” said bus will leave at 7:30 ajn. and return by 6:30 Shelly Hoover of the Center for Leadership Edu- p.m. Space is limited to 40 students and partici- cation and Service. She added that students will pants must sign up at the Leadership Center in “gain knowledge not only about themselves as a University Union Room 212 by Jan. 25. Mike Edelman Speaker to perform as Martin Luther King Jr. " 'Cing.” inspired to leam and later recite King’s Lucas is an advocate speeches. Since then he has received national of King’s philoso- acclaim for his dynamic readings and remains phy of non-violent committed to inspiring people to dream, civil action to af- “I want to participate in a special way to feet social celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday,” change and, freshman Jessica J. Jones said. “I’m hoping like King, par- to be empowered; I'd like to feel a renewed ticipated in sense of unity.” civil rights Lucas has performed for the Diplomatic demonstrations Craps, National Ba(>tist Conventions and has in the 1960s. been a guest speaker for the NAACP. Aside He worked for from his speaking tours, Lucas has co-starrcd achieved in the critically-acclaimed play, “The Meet ing,” a drama about the lives and times of King As part of UNCW’s 2002 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event, dra matist Jim Lucas will be performing tonight at 7p.m. in Kenan Auditorium. His one-man show, “Reflections,” is a dra matic rendering of the words, background and experiences of King. Lucas brings to life his interpretive readings of King’s “I Have a Dream,” “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” “A Knock at Midnight” and excerpts from “Let ter from Birmingham Jail.” “Previous speakers who’ve spoken on top ics related to diversity have been intellectual as opposed to performers,” said Joanne Nottingham, director of campus diversity, dence, C.a. school tegrationinhishome- and Malcolm X. town of Lake Provi- Tickets for tonight’ free for stu dents and the public, but advance tickets are “[Jim Lucas] doesn’t sound exactly like Dr. While attending the 20th Anniversary of required. Contact the Kenan Auditorium Box King, but you get that same kind of spirit as the March on Washington in 1983, Lucas was Office at 962-3500 for tickets. . PtMtos seen on ttK UIKU) Ufe Banner represtnt life on campus and throughout the commuRlty. tf i|m ivwiU like ta sec your event represnrted here, submit the ptMrto, along with a descrtptton, t« the ScalMtuk offlct * located In room 205 E hi the Union, or e-mail It to edttor@theseahawk.org In ePS fonnat. This week’s spotlight: Students perform at the Homecoming euent “Say UJhat” Karaoke Soundtrack Edition. Photo by Danielle Peckham.
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