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Page 2 •Thursday, October 27, 2005 NEWS Elon students fall for kids at YMCA faU festi k d M a ■■ • . Martha-Page Ransdell Reporter Members of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority vol unteered at the annual Burlington YMCA Fall Festival on OcL 21 as a way to get more involved in the Burlington community. “We’ve always enjoyed doing this,” said junior Sarah Dollard. “Sometimes we feel like we don’t really connect with the Burlington community, so we wanted to do something that allows us to reach out to other people in the area.” Dollard estimates 80 percent of die AOII chapter participated in the festival. While the members of AOII did not have to help in the planning stages of the festival, they volun teered from 5 to 9 p.m by helping out with games, food and other activities. “We can get our four mandatory volunteer hours tonight from this one event, so it works out great, but it’s really a lot of fun,” junior Meagan Root said. “These kids look up to us, so it’s important for us to be here.” For some members of AOII, volunteering at the Fall Festival is a way to not only earn serv ice hours, but also to help promote a more pos itive image of Greek Life at Elon. “By volunteering at the festival, we are get ting our name out there in the community, and hopefully breaking some of those sorority stereotypes,” junior Ashley Krueger said. Many parents, accompanying their children to the festival, seemed pleased with the activi ties and games set up for the kids. I think it s great to have the sorority girls out here helping tonight,” said Keri Key, who was at the festival with her two-year-old daughter, Dylann. “This is our firet time at the festival, but we’re having a good time.” One highlight of the event was the pumpkin painting station. Safety concerns kept the chil dren from carving the more than 40 pumpkins donated to the YMCA. In addition to various carnival games set up across the gym, the Burlington Police Department was also on hand, talking to chil dren and passing out goody bags to promote Halloween safety. Andy Sharpe, director of family and youth services at the Burlington YMCA, estimated about 400 people would attend the festival, but was surprised by how many jieople actually showed up. The festival, which has been held for the past six years, is a friee community family event sponsored by the YMCA. “This festival is a way to get families who are not already YMCA members associated with the Y, and to tell them what we’re about ” said Sharpe. Contact Martha-Page Rcmdsell at pendu- lim@elon.edu or 278-7247. Susan shows sev kids /’ow candy 1^1 (bottom Former ambassador to Rwanda shares experiences News Editor ■“ u—- News Editor For Joyce Leader, the movie Hotel Rwanda is more than just a powerful flick. Leader was a former ambassador to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people died in three months. She will speak to Elon students at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Whitley Auditorium. Originally, Elon invited Leader to speak last year for the 10-year mark of the Rwandan genocide, but plans fell through. Leader will provide background not only about the genocide, but also about relations within and outside of Rwanda. Before the 1994 genocide, she spent thiee years working on political efforts for peace. She was supposed to visit at the 10-year anniversary of the genocide in 2004,however planning fell through. Brian Digre, histoiy professor and coordina tor of African and African-American studies at Elon, met Leader through his work in the Peace Corps in 1978. She was the associate Peace Corp director in education for Africa when he volunteered in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Stability ... The process of reconciliation and search for justice is occurring (in Rwanda). — —Brian Digre, history professor When-7:30 p.m. Wednesday Where - Whitley Auditorium Joyce Leader Photo courtesy of Syracuse University Digre served as an English and history teacher at a small town in the Congo. Leader visited his class and held workshops for the teachers in the Peace Corp. “She was concerned about the volunteere' ^.ilici Detween the Tbtsis'^d Hutus Before the genocide, Hutus had control over the govenment. But historically, the two groups had switched power control. was assassinated ^d the Hutus began killing Tutsis or Hutus P«>-govemmenL I^der was forced to leave Rwanda as the She will talk w Rwanda is relatively peaceful o ^ country is stiU woridng on effort® down the separate cultural identities- “There is stability,” Digre process of reconciliation...and searc tice is occurring.” ^ to ^ Digre said that Leader would significant cross section of Experience classes, human rights ^ students concerned with and concerns about genocide in find Leader interesting. ou/and^ ^ While genocide in Darfur and fers because Rwanda had mass three months while Darfur has ■ andbadcon^'jof Digre said. “She was careful that volunteere abour^e slow process of starvation ana _ were placed at schools appropriate for them to m^TwtfrK rT' ^^^^^dors had lessons can still be learned from the community. She h» a seH™, tet Darfta, !»id Digre. m their education.” Leader ha« , . • 6* to make when the fighting began '’“k » Rw»da .0 . cuutauon. , ^ euac oacK to Rwanda tn Rwanda’s genocide occun^ because of tSI about Contact Krista Naposid at penduIwn@elon.edu or 278-^^
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