“Ask not what your campus can do for you; ask what you can do for your campus.”
This play on John F. Kennedy’s famous statement at his inaugural address could have been the rallying cry for Thursday’s President’s Roundtable meeting.
The meeting began with service learning coordinator Audrey Grams giving a breakdown of the President’s Volunteer Service Award.
The award is given by the President of the United States to people who volunteer for 100 hours or more during a 12-month span. For Grams to sign students up through this college, part of the volunteer time has to be completed for the college.
There are three levels of service: bronze for 100-175 hours; silver for 175-249 hours; and gold for 250 hours or more.
She told club members in attendance that clubs also can be included in the award.
Members can serve individually and add their hours together as a club.
If an individual has accumulated more than 100 hours, they and their club can receive the award.
If, for example, a club member serves 25 hours, they would not qualify, but their club would if other members served 75 more hours, Grams said.
The Cheshyre Cheese Club also wants to get the campus involved in an issue they feel is important.
Inspired by Campus Crusade for Christ’s human trafficking awareness campaign, Cheshyre Cheese is in the process of devising a large campaign to inform students about slavery, trafficking and genocide in countries like Sudan and Rwanda.
The club does not want to organize some rinky dink campaign and wants as many students involved as possible.
The club wants to schedule events, speakers, movies and distribute T-shirts to help create awareness.
This needs to be a big operation, and if only a handful of students get involved, Cheshyre Cheese may call it off.
Cheshyre Cheese asked that the clubs get as many people as they can involved.
If students are interested, they can e-mail the club at cheshyrecheeseclub@yahoo.com.
Run, Sami, run! was the first thing going through my head as I entered my first day at the South by Southwest festival in Austin.
I wandered around 6th Street at 8:30 a.m. trying to find the Alamo Drafthouse (I did not realize the sign outside said The Ritz and not Alamo Drafthouse) to watch a screening of David Schwimmer’s movie directorial debut of “Run Fatboy, Run.”
The London-based comedy, starring Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton, and will open in the U.S. March 28. The film has already debuted in Europe.
After wandering the streets of Austin for three hours and falling asleep in the hotel lobby of the Four Seasons hotel, I was finally able to interview Schwimmer about his new project.
As I overcame my nervousness of getting to interview Ross from “Friends” (who I always thought was the cute one), Schwimmer turned out to be extremely cordial and became one of my new favorite celebrities.
This was his first time in town and had 24 hours to get the full Austin experience, which, of course, is not enough time, and needed my wonderful expertise on where to go.
As we finally got around to talking about the film, Schwimmer told of some interesting things that happened on the set.
“Thandie was a prankster; she was outrageous. She would get Simon so much,” Schwimmer said.
In the first press junket in London, all of the cast had stacks of bottled water in the interview rooms.
“Thandie had filled every single one of Simon’s bottles with vodka,” Schwimmer said. “So in the middle of the interview, on camera, Simon starts guzzling vodka and just spits up all over the interviewers.”
Unfortunately, my time with Schwimmer had to come to an end. But David, as you spend your night on the town going to the places I sent you, I hope you will remember me, and maybe one day, I can be your Rachel (exasperated sigh).
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