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CHIPS LUTHER COLLEGE
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April 18, 2013
Vol. 135, No. 21
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Students package 23,328 meals
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Maria Ellingson (‘13) pours rice into a healthy meal bag, which will be sent to starving children across the globe by Food for Kidz.
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sort, weigh and package meals to be
One bowl of soy protein, dry rice, chicken flavoring and dehydrated vegetables. This is what Food for Kidz distributes to children across the world to keep them from starving. Through his One for Five business, Jeff Thompson (‘13) set up a food packaging event to
“I’ve actually had [the meal] before,” Thompson said. “It’s planned out so it gives people the vitamins and nutrients that they need. Starving kids need two meals of this a day to survive.” Alpha Phi Omega (APO), Chi Theta Rho (XOP) and i-Impact Now all helped with the event.
Staff Writer distributed by Food for Kidz.
“We as Americans eat way too much think charity can be,” Ernster said. and have way too much,” APO and “It’s really fun. You end up in a race XOP member Sara Ernster (‘13) said. mode like ‘who can get the most boxes “So it’s nice to be able to contribute done?’” and share that with people who don’t This is the first food-packaging event have as much.” Thompson has organized. He started Volunteers set up assembly lines of his retail store One for Five in the fall food stations on April 7 in Regents and of 2011 and sells t-shirts to raise packaged 23,328 meals. Packaging “It’s not hard labor that some people continued on page 10
Campus emergency phone removed Casey DeLima
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Over 200 people gathered at the Whippy Dip in solidarity after the Boston Marathon bombings. They ran and walked to show
that people program the security number in their
Staff Writer cellphones so that they have easy access to that
Due to the construction of the new pool, one of the blue emergency phones on campus that was located near Regents has been taken down. That leaves only two left on campus — one behind Preus Library and the other outside of Olson Hall. Director of Campus Safety and Security Bob Harri confirmed that the phone was taken down, but will be put back up in the area shortly after construction has been completed. Harri addressed whether or not the phone’s absence is a big issue on campus. “We have the emergency blue phones in key locations on campus,” Harri said. “If someone’s in need of assistance, they can utilize those phones if they don’t have a cell phone with them, but most people today do. We recommend
number if they need it.” Although it is indeed true that nearly every student has a cell phone these days, social work major Megan McDermott (‘14) makes an interesting point against relying completely on students using their cell phones. “I know a lot of people don’t take their phones with them when they go out on weekends because they worry about losing their phones or having them stolen,” McDermott said. “Sometimes people lose their phones or forget them somewhere.” McDermott and fellow social work major Laura Thompson (‘13) are doing a change project in their social policy class on getting more blue emergency phones on campus. The Phones continued on page 10