April 3, 2014
Volume 98 Issue 8 Photo illustration Photography: Kiva Talty Graphic Designer: Matt LaBorde
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
WHAT’S INSIDE:
NEW SORORITY ON THE HILL | PG. 3
& WATER
SCARCITY By ChelseaWALLACE Assistant Editor
Students, organizations and faculty across Spring Hill’s campus have come together to help give clean water to those in need. From March 18 through March 22, Alpha Sigma Nu week raised money to help El Cercado, Dominican Republic, obtain clean, safe water. Senior Mackenzie Harms, a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, spearheads the efforts to raise awareness of and money for clean water. Harms participated in the 2014 International Service Immersion Program (ISIP) and traveled to El Cercado, Dominican Republic where she and her fellow badgers built latrines and worked on improving literacy and farming. “They have now built 25 aqueduct systems,” Harms says. “Sadly, only one of these aqueducts have water so the rest of these villages are receiving contaminated water.”
SERVICE
Harms explains that four of the aqueducts are contaminated with E. Coli, while the rest of them have unknown contaminants. According to Water.org, 3.4 million people die each year from water-borne diseases, including one child every 21 seconds. In Latin America and the Caribbean alone, there are 32 million people without access to safe water. Harms works with Alpha Sigma Nu and other faculty across campus to raise money for chlorinators to purify water in the Dominican Republic, which cost $120 each. “So far, teaming up to raise awareness and money is going well and we already have enough money for a couple of chlorinators,” Harms says. “There is a campuswide event in the works currently for the end of April that will hopefully spread
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BADGER CREATES SITE FOR FISHERMEN | PG. 9