Education & Awareness
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BIG
SPEAKERS |
KIM MIKITA We're working hard to bring you big speakers and popular personalites with environmental backgrounds, like Woody Harrelson and Robert Redford. (Okay, so we're also trying really hard to get some of the not-so-well-known guys, like Dan Glickman ...he's the Secratary of Agricultre, and a UM Alum). |
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BIG BANDS |
LYELL HAYNES Sting. REM. Mickey Hart. Jimmy Buffet. Bob Weir. Jamiraquai. Don Henley. Who do you want to see come to the 'U'? We're working hard with the University Activities Council (UAC) to make it happen. |
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TEACH IN |
PAM JAKIELA Tentatively planned for mid-March beginning at midnight, the TeachIn hopes to bring the environmental movement back to the 60s & 70s style mode of activism. Different professors, community leaders, and students will facilitate discussions about different environmental issues. Workshops. Entertainment. Food...It's all in the works. And this one will be brought in part to you by Student Activities and Leadership (SAL). |
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GUERRILLA THEATER |
ANNETTE LABIANO We're recruiting a guerrilla theatre troupe to educate students about the environment via drama. The troupe will perform in the diag, perhaps the fishbowl, heck, maybe even the law reading room on a busy study night! All during the kickoff, and before large Theme Semester events. |
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UAC MINI COURSE |
SUZANNE HAGUE Bartending. Massage. TestTaking. Hmmm....what's missing here? Ahhh...a Theme Semester MiniCourse!! We're working with UAC to come up with some programming covering vegetarianism, composting, organic food...you name it! |
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LANSING LOBBY & RALLY |
TRISHA MILLER For the late fall, the environmental clearinghouse is planning a lobbying trip to Lansing. Another trip, coupled with a rally, will be planned after the Teach-In (when everyone's educated and excited) in March. We're gonna sleep out on Engler's lawn!! Hopefully, other campuses will be envolved for the rally. |
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CALL D.C. FROM THE FISHBOWL |
KARIE MORGAN Using Ameritech-donated cell phones, we're gonna blitz Congress and the White House with pro-environment calls. |
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FOOTSTEPS INTO CHANGE |
KIM MIKITA Incorporating hunger, poverty, and other issues of environmental degradation in the the Theme Semester, we're bringing you a 70 minute multimedia presentaion about a man's walk across Africa. We're shooting for the MLK Symposium for this one. |
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ALTERNATIVE WEEKENDS |
KIM MIKITA We're teaming up with Project SERVE's Alternative Weekends Program. Look for environmental service projects, such as rehabilitaion and tree planting in Hamtramck, throughout the Theme Semester. |
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HANDS ON THE PLANET |
JOEL HOFFMAN An annual event, Hands On The Planet is a one-day, into-the-streets environmental service project. Hundreds of students spend the day volunteering at different environmental sites doing activities such as letter writing, lobbying, river clean-ups, tree plantings, ect. |