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NEWS Thursday, April 11, 1996 - Page 7 Campus organization sacrifices spring break to help the needy S.E.R. V.E. travels to Virginia to help build homes By ADAM DEAN Swf/Wriler When spring break comes around most students make plans to visit beach resorts of go home and visit friends, but members of S.E.R.VE. made different plans: to help poor and deserving Ameri- cans. For this year's spring break Rick Holland, Tiffany Metzger, Corrina Giglio and Dan Wooten, along with their advisor and Scott Kane, director of residence life, traveled to snowy Dungannon, VA. to help make the lives of its people a little better. in hilly is located Dungannon Mulhern wins southwestern Virginia, unemploy- of Residence Life. holds a board in place as Tiffany Metzger saws it to size. While in VA students help build roomsfrom thejloor up. Here Scott Kane. Director and underdeveloped ment condi- this area. The major national award nons plaque in the county is a lumber to Dungannon and provide jobs for to Dan Wooten they left employer mill, but the mill can't hire every- the local people. Dungannon knowing that they had Barb Homeff, Associate Dean one. But the trip wasn't all work and done "something good." By CAI\IERON SP";IR Staf!Wrirer of the First Year Program, recom- The rest of the small population no play. Brandy Mulhern has received mended Mulhern for the award. must either find work in various Dan Wooten said that despite the the National Orientation Directors Horneff praised her, "contagious service industries, commute long "incredible work," the trip was still Aft" h"v o( hi"I' Association Student Leadership energy and legendary leadership." distances to jobs in other areas, or "one of the best weeks of my life." 1fl4 foon! 4 vi'! Award. Dean Homeff also said that find them selves unemployed. He went on to explain that the people Mulhern has served as the Stu- Mulhern's role in last year's orien- To make-matters worse for were friendly and grateful for all the to l'ili oul 0/ \iy tw.(, dent Coordinator of the Students tation program was a major reason these low-income people, Virginia work they were doing to improve r-------- Orienting Students (S.O.S.) Pro- for its success. law requires that if a family has two their lives. gram for the past two years. Mulhern, who also served as a children of the opposite sex, they While in Dungannon the group As such, she is responsible for Student Orientor during her sopho- must live in separate rooms. If they was able to experience local treats planning the details of most activi- more year, has thoroughly enjoyed do not Social Servicc-;Can afldwil!SiiChascountry music, clog dane- ties that take place as weJl as par- the experience. "The intangible take the children away and place ing, hiking and exploring the areas' ticipating in selection of Student rewards are amazing. There are them in foster care. This is where the forests, streams and falls. Orientors, 5.0. training and evalu- some great friendships." WMC students can help. WMC wasn't the only college ation, and even editing the Orien- Brandy Mulhern is a junicr En- S.E.R.VE. which means Stu- to send volunteers to this area. tation Leader Handbook. glish major. dents Engaged in Rural Volunteer Nineteen people from Bethel Col- ~ __i,_;~_L J Experiences is the name of the cam- lege and Seminary in Minnesota pus organization which went to drove 21 hours and paid $250 each ~o~\nq fi.41 brt4t J!'''i'~ Dungannon to help. In Dungannon so that they could come 0 n e r;:U';C;IL:T;t- -1-' to S.E.RV.E. helped build an addition Dungannon on their spring break to the trailer home of Eddie Vaughn and help. 'NIGHTSPECIA ..: so thai his 3 year-old daughter and 5 member of the WMC group be- year-old son can have separate came ill, and other minor mishaps '$7.99 :. I rooms. occurred, but the group pulled to- IA t 2" medium pizza with your ~ I Also the group worked on the gether and did their best with the Ichoice of ! topping. Twisty I deck of an old hunting lodge turned hard work they had set before them. IBread. or salad. & 2 cans of bed-and-breakfast. II is hoped that the There was plenty of work that ICoc~-Cola Classic or Diet Coke. I bed-and breakfast will lure tourislS everyone could do and according I ~:l~~ti~~~~~~~~g~ $/O~~~~M: Egyptian ambassador :i~~\(;:ff;1~t1~¥.g~2: ~' ....'-.".'~~'..."'." reschedules visit IC;;;';:;G-; - -1-1- 1 Discussion tofocus on thepeace process I SPECIAL :, , : $7.99 The Ambassador of the Arab campus by WMC Trustee Alleck Republic of Egypt to the United Resnick, participated in the Camp : Any Large Pizza with youl States of America has resched- David peace negotiations be- I choice of one topping. I uled his visit to Western Mary- tween Israel and Egypt. I Additional toppings I '.""....",.,,""" ""..~-, land College. Before becoming Egypt's am- He will discuss the peace pro- bassador to the U.S., he also I $1.46 extra. , cess and current events in the served as ambassador to Portugal, :~ r::.;:t':,~~~':·~,~:~·It<~-;: Middle East on Monday, April t 5, Belgium, the U.S.S.R., and Rus- ~,ooJ..t"".'~''''''_''''''.,."'''' ...,,.. DoI,_ I at 8 p.m., in McDaniel Lounge. sia. ::'::~=\',:.m;;:;::~lll.J Violinist Hilary Hahn, 16, a native of Baltimore, will perform at Westem His Excellency Ahmed Maher He graduated from Cairo Uni- Maryland Col/ege on Sunday, April 21, at 2 p.m .. in McDaniel Lounge. The El Sayed had to postpone a late versity Faculty of Law in 1956 rc~nn recital part of The Yale Gordon Sundays of Note series and made possible by March visit to the College be- and joined his country's ministry a gran'tfrom the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust, includes selec.tions by Bach, cause of involvement in the re- of foreign affairs. iEl~'iJ~~~~41 Brahms. Prokofieff, and Schumann. Ms. Hahn, a child prodigy who began cent discussions in Washington, Mr. El Sayed served in the playing just before her fourth birthday, debuted with the Baltimore Symphon! D.C~, on antiterrorism. cabinet of the advisor of the presi- 330,140 Village Road Orchestra at age tell in /991. She has per/armed throughout t.he w~rld and,ls The talks were organized af- dent for national security affairs Mon-Thurs. llAM-IAM currently a student at the prestigious Curtis Institute of MUSIC/II Philadelphia. ter the February and March Pri-Sat lIAM,2AM Admission is $5 for adults and $4 fo~ seniors o~er 65. Sund~ys of Note ts an bombings in the Middle East. and as chief of the cabinet of the afternoon series that brings outstandmg young mstrumenta!tsts and vocalists minister of foreign affairs. Sun lIAM-12AM The Ambassador, brought to Courtesy of Public Information to the college three times a year.