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News
Tuesday, February 23,2010
Scott McBride, Rebecca Hoeffner & Melissa Boughton, News Editors
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Greeks plan to help
build Habitat house
By Morgan Walker
Senior Staff Writer
For the first time in UNT
history, the four governing
councils of Greek Life will
come together to build a house
with Habitat for Humanity.
The Interfraternity Council
will host a meeting at 7:30
p.m. in University Union 411
along with members of the
Multicultural Greek Council,
National Pan-Hellenic Council
and Pan-Hellenic Council to
begin fundraising plans.
"It's exciting that Greek
Life is actually building the
first house from UNT since
it's been here, and no other
organization has attempted
it," Interfraternity Council
President Mark Logsdon
said.
Since the idea began, more
than 600 volunteers have been
involved with the project and
are ready to help, Logsdon
said.
During the meeting, a fund-
raising committee will be
created to brainstorm ideas
to raise money and form a final
goal for the amount of money
needed.
Construction will begin
in the fall, and
once the house is
complete it will go
to a local family.
"The Habitat
coordinator is going
through family bio
sheets right now,
and we should know
who gets it by next
week," Logsdon
said.
Elisa Carrasco,
the coordinator who's been
involved with the project, was
not available to explain how a
family is chosen.
Representatives of the UNT
women's basketball team also
joined the Interfraternity
Council in the project.
Head coach Shanice
Stephens said she knew a
family who benefited from a
Habitat for Humanity house
in Oklahoma.
"I've always wanted to be a
part of that organization and
help build a home," Stephens
said.
Both Stephens and assistant
coach Larry McNeil said they
plan to attend the meeting and
learn more about the project.
"This is a wonderful oppor-
For More Information:
Meeting:
• 7:30 tonight in University
Union 411
Online:
• Facebook group, "Greek Build!"
• www.untifc.com, click on the
Habitat for Humanity link
tunity for the girls to be hands-
on and see something mani-
fested materially in some-
thing that they're giving back,"
Stephens said.
Former council president
Brad Boccaccio said he came
up with the idea more than a
year ago during a meeting.
"I think it's important given
all the negative light that
Greeks have been put in lately,"
Boccaccio said.
The IFC has posted several
ways for individuals to donate
online or become volunteers,
including a Facebook group
called "Greek Build!"
"I hope the house doesn't fall
over," Stephens said. "We're not
very experienced carpenters,
but we'll do the best we can."
UNT hosts grief workshops
By Alex Cheatham
Staff Writer
The Child and Family
Resource Clinic at UNT is
offering workshops for people
struggling with death or near-
death experiences.
Counseling intern and assis-
tant director of the clinic Ryan
Foster runs the workshop with
other UNT counseling students.
The sessions are available for a
limited time as part of Foster's
dissertation and were created
as a result of his own experience
with death.
"Three years before I began
the Ph.D. program, I lost my
sister," Foster said.
He began workingfor the UNT
counseling department and
enrolled in a class that taught
about his experiences.
"The class taught about near-
death experiences, and as a result
of my own grief process, it facili-
tated some healing," Foster said.
"If it could help me, I thought
maybe it could help others."
The nonprofit clinic, under
the College of Education, was
established more than 40 years
ago and provides learning expe-
riences to master's and doctoral
level counseling students.
The clinic's newest addition
includes grief workshops that
will be held in three weekly
sessions and focus on educating
the participants on near-death
experiences.
"The sessions will include
an education time to teach and
learn about near-death expe-
riences, and then a discussion
time for participants to talk
about how grief has affected
them," Foster said.
The clinic also provides
services and counseling options
for couples, children, adolescents
and parents.
The workshops began in mid-
February and will continue
morning and afternoon every
Saturday through April 10 and
aim to offer consolation through
learning.
Adults who receive counseling
or take classes about near-death
experiences as well as death itself
may earn comfort and healing
just from learning, Foster said.
"It's important to share feel-
ings with someone who will trust
your feelings," Jenkins said. "If
you trust someone who treats
you badly for the way you feel,
it might be worse than social
isolation, which leaves you at a
risk for depression."
Anyone in the Dallas-Fort
Worth area or UNT commu-
nity older than 18 who has expe-
rienced and is grieving the death
of a loved one may attend the
workshops, free of charge, Foster
said.
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Students donate to ood drive
By Lee Wattron
Staff Writer
UNT will wrap up its second
annual university-wide
Canned Food Drive at 1 p.m.
Friday.
The food collected from
UNT students, faculty and
staff will be donated to the
Denton Community Food
Center.
The food center is staffed
by volunteers, including
Tom Newell, who serves as
chairman for the Board of
Directors.
Events like UNT's Canned
Food Drive and Canstruction
were significant contributors
last year, Newell said.
"That was 9,000 pounds of
food that we had never had
before," he said.
The center was founded in
1974 and has since provided
free food to Denton residents
in pressing financial situa-
tions.
Last year, because of a
rising unemployment rate,
the center received visits from
25 percent more people and
needed to provide more food
than usual.
"We were able to keep up
with the demand through
help from the community and
new things like Canstruction,"
Newell said.
He said the center is intended
to help people through tempo-
rary emergencies and get them
back on their feet.
Manypeople, he explains, fall
into poverty because of unex-
pected circumstances, such as
the hospitalization of a family
member or layoffs, and are not
able to bring themselves out of
it again.
The center provides for about
5,500 Denton families each year.
Last year it collected 200 tons
of food.
Amy Simon is the director for
the UNT Center of Leadership
and Service, which is the
primary sponsor of the Canned
Food Drive.
"It's important to realize
hundreds right here in Denton
need help," Simon said.
Students from across campus
have participated in the drive,
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Photo illustration by Agnes Wysowski/Photographer
On the UNT campus there are 55 locations where food can be donated including
Chilton Hall, Maple Hall and the Pohl Recreation Center.
donating cans
and encour-
aging their
peers to join in
the giving. Liz
Gaulke, a hospi-
tality manage-
ment junior,
volunteered this
year by offering
Valentine cards
and flowers to
students who
donated cans.
"Buying cans
is super cheap,
and it goes to
a good cause,"
Gaulke said.
"Think outside the box,"
Gaulke said. "Everyone brings
spaghetti sauce and beans.
Bring fruit."
Those who would like to
still donate to the food center
after the food drive can bring
food or money to the central
community storehouse at 109
W. Sycamore St.
"They help people you
Denton Community
Food Center
940-382-0807
109 West Sycamore St.
The food drive ends Feb. 26 at 1 p.m.
Donation Locations:
Union Mail Services
The Recreation Center
Housing and Residence Life,
Maple Hall
The PACS office, Chilton Hall
Residential lobbies
wouldn't expect," said Caitlin
Thompson, an anthropology
senior. "They could be living
right next door."
Newell said that some citi-
zens who have received aid in
the past send thank you letters
with checks that read, "You
were there when I needed it.
I'm now back on my feet, and I
want to help other people."
LEARNING CENTER
In the Feb. 19 edition
of the Daily, the article
"Pilot: 'I have had all I can
stand'" incorrectly iden-
Correction
tified the Web site, The
Smoking Gun. It is not the
pilot Joseph Stack's personal
Web site, but rather a site
that publishes a collection
of public documents on
crimes, celebrities, politi-
cians and the FBI.
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