22 service projects scheduled for MLK Week at Wartburg
January 7, 2013
Wartburg College students, faculty and staff will participate in 22 service projects during Martin Luther King Jr. Week activities Jan. 20-24.
During a “Day On” Monday, Jan. 21, to observe the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader, members of the Wartburg community will travel to 19 off-campus sites to assist nonprofit agencies, while three projects will be on campus.
Students will clean barns for the ASPIRE therapeutic riding program; recruit walkers for the American Heart Association; help the Waterloo Hospitality House move to a new location; and volunteer at the Waverly Senior Center, Grout Museum, North Star Community Services, the Catholic Worker House, Waverly Health Center, Junior Achievement, Allen Hospital and Self-Help International.
The football team will work with Habitat for Humanity in Waterloo; the softball team will assist the Northeast Iowa Food Bank; the Wartburg Choir will sing and play games with residents at the Bartels Lutheran Retirement Home in Waverly; the Castle Singers jazz ensemble will help at the Waverly Child Care and Preschool, and Festeberg, an a cappella group, will volunteer at the Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center in Waterloo.
On-campus endeavors include a poverty simulation with role-playing, Red Cross disaster shelter training and making fleece blankets for the Bremwood Lutheran Children’s Home.
Other activities during the week include a showing of the documentary, “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes,” based on Riceville teacher Jane Elliott’s classes on racism using a hierarchy of eye colors.
The movie begins at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, in Whitehouse Business Center 214. A panel will discuss the documentary at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in McCaskey Lyceum with panelists Dr. Jennifer McBride, assistant professor religion; the Rev. Abraham Funchess, director, Waterloo Commission on Human Rights; Dr. Ruth A. Chananie-Hill, University of Northern Iowa assistant professor of sociology; and Jim Day, Cedar Falls, community activist.
An MLK Diversity Dialogue, “Renewing the American Dream,” will be at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in McCaskey Lyceum. The Dynamic Duo, “poetry’s greatest crime fighters,” will offer its take on racism, relationships and politics 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in McCaskey Lyceum, while Wartburg student music and art talent will be showcased in “The Outlet,” 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan, 24, in McCaskey Lyceum.