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CAMPUS NEWS February 2005 2 Angels volunteer for Habitat for Humanity LACEY MADDREY Staff Writer Members of the Mer edith Christian Association (MCA) performed a good deed Saturday. Febmary 19 at Rosalynn Place in Raleigh, when they volunteered with Habitat for Humanity to help build a new home for an un derprivileged family. Habitat for Humanity International, nonprofit Christian housing ministry, seeks to eliminate poor housing conditions by building affordable and safe housing worldwide. The Wake County branch of Habitat has a very straight forward and thorough mission: “Habitat for Hu manity of Wake County de velops partnerships to build healthy, affordable homes, with and for God’s people in need; promotes self-reli- ance through homeowner- ship; affirms the dignity of the family; and creates sustainable communities.” MCA volunteered their labor services on Febru ary 19 at Lot 6 in Rosalynn Place, a community exclu sive to Habitat built homes. Volunteers arrived at the site at 8:30 a.m., worked until 4 p.m.. and received a free din ner rewarding their efforts. MCA volunteers for Habitat on a monthly basis, and helps in the building of a home at least once a semester. In addition to building homes. Habitat for Human ity has other volunteer op portunities such as working on a deconstruction crew or at a Re-Use center. The deconstruction crew helps disassemble houses that are being demolished. The crew then salvages materials that can be used for future homes or sold to the public through the Re-Use center. Volunteer work in the Re-Use center includes greeting custom ers, stocking shelves and assisting with loading ma terials. The profits raised by the Re-Use center are used to help build future homes. In addition to volunteer ing their labor with the Hab itat for Humanity of Wake BP. Photo courtesy of Chris Smith Meredith student helps build a house for Habitat for Humanity County, MCA sponsors an annual Spring Break mis sion trip to St. Petersburg, FL in which each student donates $100 to the cause. MCA Habitat Chair, Mar- quita McCoy says that while the turnout for volunteer ing is not always very big, MCA does have some faith ful workers. Commenting on her own experience vol unteering, McCoy says, “I know that just volunteering my time is making a whole world of difference in some one else’s life. I can hold my head up high and say that I did something in which there wasn’t a gain for me. I just want to help a family that has only substandard living.” Statistics for Wake County show that at least 4,300 fam ilies live'ln substandard (un safe, overcrowded) housing, and over 43,000 households get by on a total annual in come of less than $30,000. Habitat for Humanity focus es on helping these people. To learn more about Habi tat for Humanity of Wake County or to volunteer your services, visit www.habitat- wake.org or contact MCA. Meredith Performs presents NINE ADRUNA GLADO Contributing Writer Being that Meredith wom en are such well rounded students, I am sure that there are many of you out there who have had the interesting, testing, and rewarding expe rience of being in some sort ofplay or production. Maybe you had the privilege of be ing a turkey or pilgrim in the annual school Thanksgiv ing play. Perhaps you gave a stunning performance as the Virgin Mary in your church’s Christmas pageant. If so, you certainly remember the pressure of learning lines, the first time you put on that pilgrim hat and collar, and finally, the anxiety and plea sure you felt at being able to present what you’d toiled on for long hours to your ex pectant family and friends. However, for those of you out there who’ve never had the opportunity of be ing in a play. I’d like to provide a description of the amount of effort, rehearsal, and sheer man power that it takes to put on a production. First, imagine an empty stage, its wide expanse painted all in black. No lights, no scenery, no actors. Now imagine you’re handed a script. It’s about 70 pages long, and is accompanied by a book of music. Imagine it is your responsibility to au dition and find a cast of peo ple who can sing, act, and dance, to design and build a set, make or find costumes for a cast of 20 people, cre ate lighting sequences and dance numbers, and hire a handful of musicians to learn and play the music for the show. Now imagine your show must be ready to open in 5 weeks. Feel ing a little overwhelmed? Of course in a real produc tion, these jobs don’t all rest on one person’s shoulders. These jobs are filled by a di rector, a cast, a set designer, a crew, a costume designer, a choreographer and a music director. As you can now see, a play is put on with as much teamwork as it takes for Duke’s basketball team to win the ACC Champion ship, as much study and re search as any lab at NC State, and about 10 times the hard work and dedication it takes for our fi^shman to memo rize their Chaucer lines. On February 24th through the 27th, Meredith Performs will be presenting a show of a somewhat largef’propor tion, and certainly a more risque subject matter, then your past Christmas pageant or Thanksgiving play. This show, complete with sing ing and dancing, is a tale art fully spun with psychologi cal confusion, affairs, love, lust, and finally a coming to terms with self that will entertain you, your family, and friends more then even the cutest kid dressed as a stuffed turkey. Don’t let all the hard work, commitment and enthusiasm of our fellow students, and staff, go unno ticed. Come on out and sup port your favorite local play ers as they present, for your viewing pleasure, “NINE”. NINE Febraury 24th-27th, 2005 Thursday-Satiirday 8pm Sunday 2pm $8 Adults $6 Seniors $6 Students Meredith Students Free
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