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Students serve city during Action Day
Kimberly Sanfeliz
Issue date: 4/13/06 Section: News
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Getting up at 8 a.m. to clean stairwells, package meals and pick up the Charles River may not sound like an ideal Saturday, but for 50 Emerson students, it was exactly what they wanted.
Last weekend, the students gathered for the first annual Emerson Action Day, in order to bring various services to the community. The event, organized by the Office of Service Learning and Community Action, (OSLCA) was the culmination of Emerson Action Week.
Heather Flynn, staff assistant at the OSLCA, participated in Action Week and in Action Day. Flynn said it is important for Emerson students to take part in events like these.
"I think it allows students to try out service work and to celebrate that work together," she said.
Throughout the week, OSLCA helped to organize events that pertained to service learning at Emerson.
The program also included an information session about ACT Leaders. ACT, which stands for Action for Community Transformation, is a program through which students take workshops with the OSLCA in order to learn not only about service, but also how to be a leader in service organizations, according to Jen Greer, associate director of Service Learning.
This non-tuition credit program requires the student ACT Leaders to put together one project per semester that advocates service throughout the school, according to Greer.
"It's a way for students to connect with other students who do service," Greer said. "They can also raise awareness and get other students involved."
Emerson Action Day was a result of one such ACT Leader's vision. Natasha Castro, a senior theatre education major, came to the OSLCA with the idea to have a day of service that brings together students from all organizations on campus.
Some of the organizations represented were Imagine, Student Government Association (SGA), Earth Emerson, Emerson Peace and Social Justice and the Residence Hall Association, Castro said.
One group of about 15 students went to St. Francis House, a shelter and rehabilitation center that provides job training and basic services to poor and homeless people in Boston, where they sorted clothes that would be given to homeless people for their job interviews and cleaned the back stairwell of the building.
Last weekend, the students gathered for the first annual Emerson Action Day, in order to bring various services to the community. The event, organized by the Office of Service Learning and Community Action, (OSLCA) was the culmination of Emerson Action Week.
Heather Flynn, staff assistant at the OSLCA, participated in Action Week and in Action Day. Flynn said it is important for Emerson students to take part in events like these.
"I think it allows students to try out service work and to celebrate that work together," she said.
Throughout the week, OSLCA helped to organize events that pertained to service learning at Emerson.
The program also included an information session about ACT Leaders. ACT, which stands for Action for Community Transformation, is a program through which students take workshops with the OSLCA in order to learn not only about service, but also how to be a leader in service organizations, according to Jen Greer, associate director of Service Learning.
This non-tuition credit program requires the student ACT Leaders to put together one project per semester that advocates service throughout the school, according to Greer.
"It's a way for students to connect with other students who do service," Greer said. "They can also raise awareness and get other students involved."
Emerson Action Day was a result of one such ACT Leader's vision. Natasha Castro, a senior theatre education major, came to the OSLCA with the idea to have a day of service that brings together students from all organizations on campus.
Some of the organizations represented were Imagine, Student Government Association (SGA), Earth Emerson, Emerson Peace and Social Justice and the Residence Hall Association, Castro said.
One group of about 15 students went to St. Francis House, a shelter and rehabilitation center that provides job training and basic services to poor and homeless people in Boston, where they sorted clothes that would be given to homeless people for their job interviews and cleaned the back stairwell of the building.
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