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Clarion Call CLARION UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1913
OCTOBER 24, 2013
VOL. 100 ED. 7
Clarion University holds annual “Reading for the Cure” Anastasia Bates STAFF WRITER
CLARION, Pa. - The annual “Reading for the Cure” event was held in Moore Hall on Friday Oct. 18, and has raised $4,000 so far. The event, sponsored by Clarion University’s English Club and Clarion’s Reading for the Cure saw profits go to Pittsburgh Komen Race for the Cure; here donations will help fund breast cancer research and educational programs. Students from different majors read in aid of the charity. Some were poems written by the readers while others were recitals from famous poets. Kevin Stemmler, faculty sponsor and a reader for the night, spoke about his mother in his reading, while other people’s inspirations came from something as simple as a sunrise. Therese Holzapfel explained, “I was looking out of my dorm window and I saw a sunrise, and I thought what’s more beautiful?” Aside from the readers, the event consisted of a quilt auction raffle, and the event began with singing from Phi Mu Alpha. The quilt has been a part of the event for the past 17 years and was donated and made by Sally Byers of Countryside Crafts and
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Clarion’s English club raffles off T-shirts and other items at Reading for the Cure in Moore Hall. Quilts in Knox. “Clarion is the only university that has hosted this type of event and the only school that has been dedicated to this cause for such a long period of time,” Stemmler said. “For the past 16 years straight, we have been the only student event to be listed on the back of 30,000 Pittsburgh Race for the Cure T-shirts as official sponsors of that event, all thanks to the money we have raised each year. Clarion Uni-
versity students are the best individuals that anyone could ever hope to work with.” When asked about his departure from this event, he said, “I will still be helping with the Reading for the Cure next fall; however, with the shift to making the event an official Recognized Student Organization on Clarion’s campus, I expect my role may change.” “This year was special for all of us, though, since one of our original mem-
bers is currently battling breast cancer.” David Lutz was also one of the readers. He said, “It is such a great cause to combine literature and poetry with finding a cure for breast cancer. I have been here before in the past. I am an alumni member of Clarion. Dr. Stemmler was one of my former professors. It feels great to be back on campus. I actually feel like I am old enough to say the campus is all built up now.”
Linda DeVos from Pittsburgh Komen Race for the Cure said in her opening speech, “I just want to say that while we added four counties we have a 34-county service area in central and western Pennsylvania. The other stuff still remains the same; 75 percent of the donations stay in the 34-county service areas.” “We know that early protection does save lives. I am a 21-year survivor,” DeVos said. “I found out about this event five
years ago when I started when I started working [for Pittsburgh Komen Race for the Cure], and it really does speak to everything I love.” Rebecca Greenman from the English Club said, “Unlike a lot of people here, I have never had a family member with breast cancer, but that doesn’t mean make me feel like it was any less of an important issue. I know that to a lot of people this is something that is close to their hearts, and I think it’s beautiful to see a lot of people come together for this event, and I am so glad to be a part of it.” Maggie Ditmore, a sophomore Psychology major in the audience said, “It mixes all the best things today; it’s helping people raise awareness about an issue and literature all in the same night.” “There’s no reason not to go, why wouldn’t you? What’s more important than celebrating peoples struggles and overcoming of them all through the creative arts,” Dittmore said. “It’s like an open mic night on steroids. It’s everything I love about open mic night that we have, but for something so awesome as finding a cure. It puts our passion and our love from speaking and literature toward something that we normally would just use for our own benefit we use for the benefit of others.”
Department develops new mentor program Emily Miller NEWS EDITOR
CLARION, Pa. - The department of communication at Clarion University is creating a mentor program for its students. The chair of the department, Myrna Kuehn, wanted to start the program to help new students discover what the department has to offer with help from upper-classmen. New students, traditional first-year freshmen as well as transfers, will be paired with upper level communication majors for the
mentoring program. Kuehn wants the program to “help upper level students get practical application of communication skills they are learning in their program of study.” “This is an excellent opportunity for students to gain experience practicing key communication skills important in every workplace,” she said. The program is being launched as a leadership project lead by senior Halee Kephart as part of her coursework in her leadership communication class. “The opportunity for
me to lead this program came up, and I knew I wanted to do it,” Kephart said. “The program will benefit students in many ways. It will be a great social experience to get to know students, faculty and staff within the department. The program will also provide new students with experience in the field from the beginning of their career as a student in the department of communication.” Kephart added, “My hopes for the program is that it will increase the number of students who remain commu-
nication majors after their freshman year, and also that it will give our students hands on experience through student media organizations their first year in the department that will greatly increase their knowledge of the field, making them efficient communication professionals once they graduate.” According to Kuehn, the mentor program has goals of generating more participation in student media organizations and student professional associations, providing clear
guidance and directions in meeting program “benchmarks” as a communication major and to provide a friendly and supportive introduction for new students to college life. A pilot of the program will be launched in spring 2014, with the full program being introduced into the department in fall 2014. A notice will be going out in November for rising junior and senior communication majors to apply as mentors. For the spring, an estimated 50 students will be participating in
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the program, the number depending on how many mentors volunteer and how many new students come into the department. There will be an application form for students to fill out as well as an interview. Students wishing to participate in the program will have to complete training and follow program guidelines to be a mentor. For more information on the communication department’s mentoring program, or how to become a mentor, contact Kephart at h.d.kephart@ eagle.clarion.edu.