Congratulations Western Kentucky U!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am | posted by Virginia Simmons
Since September, more than 1,400 college campuses have been battling it out in the ONE Campus Challenge. In the end, one school was unstoppable.
Western Kentucky University beat out the competition by recruiting almost 3,000 students to ONE, writing letters and placing calls to members of Congress and effectively reaching out to the Bowling Green community to join the movement.
On Tuesday night, ONE brought the bands Army of Me and Georgie James to the campus for a free concert. Lots of local news, like the WKU Herald and local TV station WBKO covered the event.
The WKU Herald quotes ONE student organizer Matt Vaughan:
“Way to go, Hilltoppers,” Vaughan said. “3,000 people at Western are now signed up (for the ONE Campaign). That’s an accomplishment no other university could match.” Vaughan said he was happy to sit back and enjoy the concert, but there was still work to be done to end world poverty.
“The spirit of change is alive and well here at WKU,” he said. “For years to come we’re going to have to keep rocking the movement. We can do this and we will do it.”
And WBKO ran this interview with Vaughan Tuesday night.
Note his quote:
“We beat out schools like Princeton and George Washington, all these schools that are known for being globally engaged and active. We showed that you don’t have to go to a rich and elite school in the East Coast to make a difference in this world, everyone can make a difference,” said Matt Vaughan, WKU student organizer.
Congratulations WKU! We can’t wait to see what you guys do next.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
In the news yesterday, the huge problem of food waste in the west was revealed:
Sweden wastes 33% of all its food. Ireland more. USA tops the list (unsurprisingly) with 50%.
Obviously this should be used as a resource at most. It should be shipped to the urgently needy rather than being thrown, which is a huge environmental problem for the West. By processing the food to a soup powder this would spare the world of futile misery.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Congratulations to all the hard work and invigoration that made you the winners here, Western Kentucky U. so proud of you. and i hope you all had the best time the other night. you deserved it.
keep up the great great work, i really hope your school continues very active in this war on poverty. you can be a lighthouse in your region for the ONE campaign.
stay close,
sammi in seattle =)
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Hey Matt, all I can say is CONGRATULATIONS and thanks for showing the rest of the country that we here in the South actually DO care about the issues that ONE advocates for.
I have been trying to impress upon those in our movement ever since we started down this road nearly six years ago that the South is a wellspring for support for Africa’s Future - if we organize in the South stressing those areas where people down here have a particular interest, like national security for instance.
As we have grown, our movement is getting better at finding those organizing points which work the best in various areas of our country and your success at WKU is indicative of this.
Keep up your terrific efforts next semester on campus. I’ll be rooting for all of you. (smile)
LIVING POSITIVELY, debbie
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