TONIGHT (Wed 3/12)!!!
Amnesty International will be hosting a film screening of DangerousLiving at 8pm in Latzer Hall . Dangerous Living explores the lives of gay and lesbian people from non-western cultures. The film travels to five different continents in order to hear the stories from lesbians and gays in Honduras, Egypt, Kenya, Thailand, and elsewhere.
We hope you'll join us!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Internship Opportunity
In May, Carrie and my time with ISEC will be coming to an end. However, that opens up the possibilty for one of you to take control of the organization.
I have attached the full job description but the information is below as well.
Good Luck,
Doug
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RESPONSIBILITIES: The intern will meet with student environmental groups at colleges and universities in Illinois to encourage the building of a statewide environmental organization. In addition, interns work with ELPC policy advocates on current statewide, regional and national campaigns as needed. The intern will also play an important role in assisting the organizations transfer to its own independent organization. Responsibilities will include public education and outreach, policy research and development, policy advocacy and grassroots organizing. This position requires occasional travel throughout the Illinois.
QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates should have strong academic records, excellent oral communication and writing skills, strong analytic abilities and a demonstrated interest in public interest and environmental advocacy.
SALARY: The salary is $3,000 per semester.
APPLICATION PROCESS: Applicants should e-mail a cover letter and resume no later than April 25th 2008 to: Nancy Wagner, Senior Policy Advocate, Environmental Law and Policy Center, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL email: nwagner@elpc.org
Telephone inquiries are discouraged. The Environmental Law and Policy Center is an equal opportunity employer and is continually seeking to diversify its staff.
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Douglas Marks
ISEC Intern
dmarks@elpc.org
312-795-3710
www.greenstudents.org
I have attached the full job description but the information is below as well.
Good Luck,
Doug
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RESPONSIBILITIES: The intern will meet with student environmental groups at colleges and universities in Illinois to encourage the building of a statewide environmental organization. In addition, interns work with ELPC policy advocates on current statewide, regional and national campaigns as needed. The intern will also play an important role in assisting the organizations transfer to its own independent organization. Responsibilities will include public education and outreach, policy research and development, policy advocacy and grassroots organizing. This position requires occasional travel throughout the Illinois.
QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates should have strong academic records, excellent oral communication and writing skills, strong analytic abilities and a demonstrated interest in public interest and environmental advocacy.
SALARY: The salary is $3,000 per semester.
APPLICATION PROCESS: Applicants should e-mail a cover letter and resume no later than April 25th 2008 to: Nancy Wagner, Senior Policy Advocate, Environmental Law and Policy Center, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL email: nwagner@elpc.org
Telephone inquiries are discouraged. The Environmental Law and Policy Center is an equal opportunity employer and is continually seeking to diversify its staff.
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Douglas Marks
ISEC Intern
dmarks@elpc.org
312-795-3710
www.greenstudents.org
Monday, March 3, 2008
CCY DEADLINE - March 15!
Please consider attending the CCY Conference this May OR asking the coolest students in your program to attend. The deadline is fast approaching -- next Saturday, March 15. Phoebe and I are going and we're moderately fun so it should follow that if some of you attend, we'll have plenty of fun to go around.
Details:
CCY 2008 will take place May 18th- May 21st in St Louis Missouri- Deadline for Registration March 15th
Ok. So, those are not details. I'll bring the details Friday.
Details:
CCY 2008 will take place May 18th- May 21st in St Louis Missouri- Deadline for Registration March 15th
Ok. So, those are not details. I'll bring the details Friday.
A Collection of Forwards from Mr. Shoemaker
Interfaith Youth Core
Fellows Alliance 2008-2009
Apply NOW!!
The time is right for college students to lead the movement for religious pluralism
WHO: Undergraduate student leaders from diverse faith and moral traditions who are committed
to interfaith action on campuses across the country.
WHAT: IFYC Fellows receive year-long stipends to support interfaith organizing work
on their college campus, skill-based trainings on how to be an effective interfaith
organizer, resources and tools to enhance interfaith work, media opportunities, a network
of peer colleagues, and mentors in the interfaith movement.
HOW: Visit www.ifyc.org/fellows to download the Fellows Alliance application.
The deadline to apply is March 15, 2008.
For more information, contact Lauren Parnell at 312-573-8926 or lauren@ifyc.org
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Wanna work at a YMCA? Check out Jobs at www.ymca.net
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Go on an ASB Trip, Vlog about it, Use that Vlog as an essay entry and make some money.
Volunteer Your Spring Break Story for a Chance to Receive $500!
• Building houses on the gulf coast?
• Working in the rainforests of Belize?
• Volunteering in your community?
However you are spending your "alternative" Spring Break, we want to hear about it!
Experience would like to sponsor three students who have committed to participate in an alternative volunteer spring break opportunity. By filling out and submitting this application, you are eligible to submit a video journal of your alternative spring break trip. The three candidates with the best videos will have their work displayed on Experience.com and will receive $500 to help pay for their trip! We'll be sending you e-mail updates to give you camera tips, tell you what we think other students would be interested in learning from your experiences, and let you know how to submit your video.
APPLY NOW for the opportunity to tell us about your Spring Break, have your video footage on our site, and receive $500 toward the cost of your trip!
The deadline to submit videos for this Exclusive Experience is Friday, April 4, 2008.
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Unite For Sight Volunteer Abroad Opportunities: As Featured Weekly On CNN
Currently accepting applications for January 2008 through January 2009. Rolling application deadline - the first qualified applicants are accepted. Apply today!
Volunteer Abroad in Summer, Fall, Winter, or Spring: http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer
Save Eyes and Lives. Every Eye, A Life.
Those who are blind in Africa have a four times higher mortality rate
60-80% of children who become blind die within 1-2 years
80% of blindness is curable or preventable
How Do I Apply? The application as well as complete details about Unite For Sight's international opportunities are available at http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer/
What is Unite For Sight's Mission? Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
Unite For Sight's work to prevent blindness and restore sight is featured weekly on CNN INTERNATIONAL from September 2007-August 2008
Who Is Eligible to Participate?: The Unite For Sight internship is open to individuals 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. Volunteers range from undergraduate students to medical students, public health students and professionals, nurses, physician's assistants, teachers and educators, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, doctors, opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists.
What Do Volunteers Do?: Volunteers receive hands-on clinical experience while assisting doctors in remote, rural villages. Volunteers learn about international health and eye care, learn clinical skills while working with patients and doctors, and, in one program location, have an opportunity to perform cataract surgery on a goat's eye.
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds. Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. These memories last a lifetime.
While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone and that leaves no person blind in the future.
What Do Volunteers Say?:
“During my volunteering experience, I realized that Unite for Sight’s service is a campaign for the salvation of humanity that allows the light of compassion to shine through each of us. I believe it is this display of altruism and commitment that makes the organization’s service so virtuous and treasured by both volunteers and patients. After all, making a difference in the world is not so difficult if only one would care enough to sacrifice a part of oneself in order to change the world for the better. My experience as a Unite for Sight volunteer has inspired me to dedicate my future career to serving underprivileged communities around the world.”—Chiwing “Jessica” Qu, Yale University Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in India 2007
"Without Unite for Sight, I cannot imagine how I could possibly have seen and learned so much as an undergraduate about medicine, other cultures, and my own desire and ability to make a difference in others' lives."--Charlotte Hogan, Georgetown University Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in India 2006 and Ghana 2005
"I can honestly say that everything I learned in 3 years of medical school paled in comparison to the 3 week experience I had in Accra (Ghana) in October 2007 as part of Unite For Sight. The program provides volunteers with a unique and hands-on involvement – being able to help out to the level of your training and comfort. My experience taught me that Ghanaian people are the friendliest people I have interacted with anywhere in the world, that ordinary people involved with Unite For Sight are making extraordinary differences, and that sitting in a classroom receiving a world-class education cannot match real life experiences while volunteering."--Varun Verma, UMDNJ Medical Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
Fellows Alliance 2008-2009
Apply NOW!!
The time is right for college students to lead the movement for religious pluralism
WHO: Undergraduate student leaders from diverse faith and moral traditions who are committed
to interfaith action on campuses across the country.
WHAT: IFYC Fellows receive year-long stipends to support interfaith organizing work
on their college campus, skill-based trainings on how to be an effective interfaith
organizer, resources and tools to enhance interfaith work, media opportunities, a network
of peer colleagues, and mentors in the interfaith movement.
HOW: Visit www.ifyc.org/fellows to download the Fellows Alliance application.
The deadline to apply is March 15, 2008.
For more information, contact Lauren Parnell at 312-573-8926 or lauren@ifyc.org
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wanna work at a YMCA? Check out Jobs at www.ymca.net
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Go on an ASB Trip, Vlog about it, Use that Vlog as an essay entry and make some money.
Volunteer Your Spring Break Story for a Chance to Receive $500!
• Building houses on the gulf coast?
• Working in the rainforests of Belize?
• Volunteering in your community?
However you are spending your "alternative" Spring Break, we want to hear about it!
Experience would like to sponsor three students who have committed to participate in an alternative volunteer spring break opportunity. By filling out and submitting this application, you are eligible to submit a video journal of your alternative spring break trip. The three candidates with the best videos will have their work displayed on Experience.com and will receive $500 to help pay for their trip! We'll be sending you e-mail updates to give you camera tips, tell you what we think other students would be interested in learning from your experiences, and let you know how to submit your video.
APPLY NOW for the opportunity to tell us about your Spring Break, have your video footage on our site, and receive $500 toward the cost of your trip!
The deadline to submit videos for this Exclusive Experience is Friday, April 4, 2008.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unite For Sight Volunteer Abroad Opportunities: As Featured Weekly On CNN
Currently accepting applications for January 2008 through January 2009. Rolling application deadline - the first qualified applicants are accepted. Apply today!
Volunteer Abroad in Summer, Fall, Winter, or Spring: http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer
Save Eyes and Lives. Every Eye, A Life.
Those who are blind in Africa have a four times higher mortality rate
60-80% of children who become blind die within 1-2 years
80% of blindness is curable or preventable
How Do I Apply? The application as well as complete details about Unite For Sight's international opportunities are available at http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer/
What is Unite For Sight's Mission? Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
Unite For Sight's work to prevent blindness and restore sight is featured weekly on CNN INTERNATIONAL from September 2007-August 2008
Who Is Eligible to Participate?: The Unite For Sight internship is open to individuals 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. Volunteers range from undergraduate students to medical students, public health students and professionals, nurses, physician's assistants, teachers and educators, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, doctors, opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists.
What Do Volunteers Do?: Volunteers receive hands-on clinical experience while assisting doctors in remote, rural villages. Volunteers learn about international health and eye care, learn clinical skills while working with patients and doctors, and, in one program location, have an opportunity to perform cataract surgery on a goat's eye.
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds. Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. These memories last a lifetime.
While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone and that leaves no person blind in the future.
What Do Volunteers Say?:
“During my volunteering experience, I realized that Unite for Sight’s service is a campaign for the salvation of humanity that allows the light of compassion to shine through each of us. I believe it is this display of altruism and commitment that makes the organization’s service so virtuous and treasured by both volunteers and patients. After all, making a difference in the world is not so difficult if only one would care enough to sacrifice a part of oneself in order to change the world for the better. My experience as a Unite for Sight volunteer has inspired me to dedicate my future career to serving underprivileged communities around the world.”—Chiwing “Jessica” Qu, Yale University Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in India 2007
"Without Unite for Sight, I cannot imagine how I could possibly have seen and learned so much as an undergraduate about medicine, other cultures, and my own desire and ability to make a difference in others' lives."--Charlotte Hogan, Georgetown University Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in India 2006 and Ghana 2005
"I can honestly say that everything I learned in 3 years of medical school paled in comparison to the 3 week experience I had in Accra (Ghana) in October 2007 as part of Unite For Sight. The program provides volunteers with a unique and hands-on involvement – being able to help out to the level of your training and comfort. My experience taught me that Ghanaian people are the friendliest people I have interacted with anywhere in the world, that ordinary people involved with Unite For Sight are making extraordinary differences, and that sitting in a classroom receiving a world-class education cannot match real life experiences while volunteering."--Varun Verma, UMDNJ Medical Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
SECS Lecture Tomorrow!
My name is Deirdre Almaguer and I am writing on behalf of Students for Environmental Concerns(SECs) about an upcoming lecture that we are very excited to be hosting. The lecture titled, Light and Water in Urban Environments: An Economic Perspective, will be given by Professor Amy Ando, an Environmental Economist. It will be held on March 4th at 7pm in 106 Lincoln Hall. SECs needs your help to publicize this event and would greatly appreciate if you added it to your announcements. Treats will be provided!
Yes... another one.
I know what you are thinking.
"Another blog, Kasey? really? Seriously, we don't think you are that old. So, you can stop trying to prove you're 'hip' and 'with it.'"
But I assure you, friends, that THIS blog is not to be cool. Actually, it is to save you all from something I know you don't like, an insane amount of emails from yours truly. Or at least, you'll get less emails from me. Plus, you can chat about things you would not necessarily want to post on the Y's blog, AND you can plan things like meetings without filling up everyone's inbox. Just trust me on this one. It will be awesome, but you have to check it.
That's the catch. I am willing to refrain from forwarding you every email Steve and others send me and I am willing to put all of the nagging reminders on the blog instead of sending you a millions emails, but you have to agree to at least check the thing from time to time.
So, blog things will be things like job announcements, conference opportunities and other events around campus. You'll still get emails for things like volunteer requests, but the rest of the stuff will just be posted here. What do you think?
"Another blog, Kasey? really? Seriously, we don't think you are that old. So, you can stop trying to prove you're 'hip' and 'with it.'"
But I assure you, friends, that THIS blog is not to be cool. Actually, it is to save you all from something I know you don't like, an insane amount of emails from yours truly. Or at least, you'll get less emails from me. Plus, you can chat about things you would not necessarily want to post on the Y's blog, AND you can plan things like meetings without filling up everyone's inbox. Just trust me on this one. It will be awesome, but you have to check it.
That's the catch. I am willing to refrain from forwarding you every email Steve and others send me and I am willing to put all of the nagging reminders on the blog instead of sending you a millions emails, but you have to agree to at least check the thing from time to time.
So, blog things will be things like job announcements, conference opportunities and other events around campus. You'll still get emails for things like volunteer requests, but the rest of the stuff will just be posted here. What do you think?
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