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completing 25. “I think it was a great way to get people involved on campus,” Staudt said. “It got me going to a lot of events that maybe I hadn’t been to before as a student or I returned to them my last semester because I haven’t taken a picture, so it got me active on campus, which was good.” Gonzales and Staudt found that collaboration helped them complete the challenge. “My roommate and I, we
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Vision School – a school with dirt floors and no running water in Runaway Bay, Jamaica – where they donated T-shirts and school supplies to students. Riesberg and Smith’s trip to Jamaica was sponsored by the Southwestern Company, a publishing company where both had previously interned during the summer. The trip was an earned reward for the company’s top interns, and the company also provided an opportunity for the interns to participate in a service project while on the trip. Riesberg and Smith were able to personally give Pi Sigma Epsilon’s Homecoming t-shirts to the
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worked on it together, so it was a lot easier to complete when you’re taking pictures with someone else and they’re reminding you to go to different things, and we actually made a list of the events that we needed to go to.” Connie Hansen, the assistant director of outreach and engagement for the Alumni Association, was thrilled to see the students complete the challenge. “I think, considering the book’s only been out for two years and these students have already completed 45 plus challenges is pretty amazing,” children at the school. “It was a very eye-opening experience as well as very rewarding,” Riesberg said. “It was amazing to see how happy the children and teachers were even while living off of next to nothing. I felt very humbled after the experience and am very thankful for the opportunity.” Smith also shared her experience. “To see the state of the school — no running water, hardly a road to get there — was awakening, but to see how its depression did not affect the children was most uplifting. It was a reminder that the material possessions that our culture places such emphasis on are, in their purest forms, only possessions. It wasn’t the shirts and supplies we brought that made
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she said. Hansen expects more students to complete the challenge in future years. “I think students are doing it; I think it’s just gonna be one of those things, like everything, where students wait to the very end to get it all completed,” she said. “Either way, as long as they’re engaged, I’m excited and I think we’re gonna have some great Panthers that know what it means to take total advantage of what UNI has to offer.”
“It wasn’t the shirts and supplies we brought that made the children light up. It was the friendship and excitement we provided that made it an experience the children will never forget, and it was their open hearts and genuine appreciation that made it a day we will always remember.” Stephanie Smith senior public relations major
the children light up. It was the friendship and excitement we provided that made it an experience the children will never forget, and it was their open hearts and genuine appreciation that made it a day we will always remember.”
The week of January 17, a random sample of UNI students will be contacted via email, and invited to participate in the American College Health Association - National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA). The assessment is for research purposes. This confidential, approximately 20-30 minute survey will assist various departments at UNI by providing a better understanding of your health habits, behaviors and perceptions.
Why is this important? This information will be used to develop and modify programs and services to meet the needs of UNI students. All participating students who complete the survey will receive 1 free guest pass, for the day, to the WRC. In addition, you will be entered into a drawing for 1 IPOD Touch (4th Generation, 32GB), as well as gift certificates and merchanWe hope you’ll consider participating if contacted. dise to local merchants and restaurants. The ACHA-NCHA is sponsored by University Health Services. If you have any questions, please call Mark Rowe-Barth at 319-273-3423.