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Students change bike event to raise money for Uganda |
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The goal was to build a school for the children in Uganda. And when Ball State’s chapter of Building Tomorrow hosted its first Bike to Uganda event in October 2012, it raised $300. The group needed $60,000. After a fresh start two years later, the group has shifted gears and is focusing its attention on building a classroom.
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where they “scribble their lessons in the dirt for lack of proper learning materials or even gathering under a tree to learn,” UNESCO said. Building Tomorrow hires Ugandan workers to help build the schools and teachers to run it once it’s been decided that a school will be built in that community. It also pays for the children’s lunches and the teacher’s salary for a year. “They actually try to help the community find an appreciation and ownership of the schools,” said Heather Murray, a senior architecture major and member of the Ball State chapter.
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When second year graduate student Emmy Kaiser came to Ball State, she noof all out-of-school children ticed the wheelchair equipworldwide are in sub7. PERIODS OF RAIN 9. SCATTERED SHOWERS 6. RAIN ment in the Student RecreSaharan Africa ation and Wellness Center. The top-20 U.S. Paralympic tennis player decided to put is the cost of 10 bricks it to good use. With the help of a faculty ad12. SCATTERED FLURRIES 11. SNOW FLURRIES 13. SNOW SHOWERS viser, she started the wheelis the cost of a Bike to chair basketball team three Uganda half-hour slot
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“Right now, we are raising money for a room,” said Bailey Stultz, a co-president of the group. The group has raised $2,583 during the last few months and has until the end of the year to reach its $6,000 goal. Building Tomorrow is an organization with roots across the nation that raises money to help build schools in Uganda. Sub-Saharan Africa, which includes Uganda, accounts for 50 percent of all out-of-school children worldwide, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The lack of schools has caused children to walk miles to get any class time. In most cases, children attend schools
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t Ball State, American Sign Language isn’t accepted for foreign language credit, but one student is taking it into his own hands to change that. Freshman art education major Jacob ONLINE Durnen started a petition in early March to persuade the university to accept the language as a foreign language credit toward Bachelor of Arts degrees. There are 63 signatures as of publication. Durnen took three years of ASL classes during Check out some high school and expected to continue learning that sign language bit.ly/1hgnFBc language in college while pursuing a degree that requires 14 credit hours of a foreign language. “With this degree, it’s so filled with credits already that starting to learn a new language in itself is extremely hard,” he said. He said taking classes in a language he already has experience with would help to focus his attention on his major classes. ASL uses hand motions to represent words, allowing those with hearing impediments or those who are unable to speak to communicate. See ASL, page 6
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semesters ago. While she had never played basketball before, and still isn’t comfortable shooting, she said she enjoys helping out teammates with their chair skills. She is one of two players who uses a wheelchair in dai5. SUNNY ly life, so the learning curve is steep for most of the team. “The chair skills are so important, it has to be second nature,” Kaiser said. “The 10. DRIZZLE main difference [between stand-up basketball and wheelchair basketball] is they have to understand the chair is part of their body.” THE PULSE OF BALL STATE
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