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NOVEMBER 24 • 2014
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Hunger Week strikes chord By Christian Hornaday
Staff Writer
As Thanksgiving approaches, the Campbell University Social Work Club hosted multiple events last week during Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, raising awareness and promoting thankfulness around campus.
Each year during the week before Thanksgiving, the National Coalition for the Homeless leads the nation in a time of raising the awareness of peers, neighbors and community members who are experiencing a shortage of food or don’t have a stable place to live. This year, Campbell’s Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
events ranged from a box-a-thon, where students camped outside in cardboard boxes in Academic Circle, to a hunger banquet where students were each dealt meals of different qualities based on different incomes. Food donations were also accepted all See Hunger Week, Page 7
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New club targets gun rights By Rachel Rock Features Editor
With a third of U.S. citizens in the country owning a gun (according to a study by the Pew Research Center), many are unaware of the specifics of the Second Amendment or what their rights are concerning gun laws. That is a main concern of the anticipated new club on campus, the Second Amendment Club. The club is expected to assemble on campus next semester, and is planning to help Campbell students gain a better understanding of gun rights and regulations. The Second Amendment, or the right to bear arms, is an amendment that gives citizens of the United States freedom to possess See Gun rights, Page 6
Ethical issues play role in service abroad
Photo by Louis Duke
Members of the Common Ground club gather for a meeting on campus. Common Ground members are in support of the new non-discrimination policy for students which now includes sexual orientation and gender identity.
ORANGE & GAY
Campbell and its LGBT community have clashed in the past, but now a changed policy shows heightened protection By Louis Duke and Valerie Procopio
approved aemployees revision towere the student University offered such policy in October, including both protection. sexual orientation and gender identity The vote was a victory for lesbian, During the October meeting of in the policy’s umbrella. According Campbell University’s policies pro- gay bisexual and transgendered stu-to Campbell University’s Board of Trust- the American Civil Liberties Union, tect employees from discrimination dents at Campbell. It’s been just ees, a change thesexual student nonthe new revision means “the [school] regardless of to their orientation two years since a grassroots group of discrimination policy was made in or gender identity. Until very recently, will not allow anyone in the school LGBT students was formed to pursue community to be treated differently Campbell students did not enjoy order to include protections for thethis implementation of a gay-straight or to be harassed because they are gay, same orientation protection. and gender identity the sexual alliance on campus to serve as aother safe lesbian, or bisexual, or because Campbell Board of Trustees of students. Prior to the meeting, only Staff Writers
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peoplefor think they are.” haven students. This semester, The The University’s previously different Campbell Times has looked into the approach to the anti-discrimination struggles of openly gay and closeted policies for employees and students students at Campbell, as well as the was an issue repeatedly raised by the actions taken by University administraLGBT community at Campbell. tion to include protections for the “I noticed that they did add [sexucommunity. al orientation and gender identity] to See Orange and gay, Page 6
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By Sierra Fox Staff Writer
Service learning benefits students not only academically and professionally, but also personally. Students increase their understanding of material learned in the classroom, grow their understanding of diverse cultures and communities, and enhance their skills through communication, collaboration and leadership. While service learning is an opportunity for students to improve their skills by providing service to others, Campbell’s service learning and mission trip-leading faculty look at the importance of doing so in an ethical way. See Service, Page 7
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