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Friday, September 5, 2008
CAMPUS NEWS
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Send Me Lord links groups
to encourage involvement
By Lydia Melby
Arts Editor
With almost 100
student-led organizations,
social clubs and interest
groups on campus for
the 2008-09 school year,
getting connected can be
overwhelming, especially
for students who are
already involved in sports
and other extracurricular
programs. ACU, yet again,
has added one more
student organization to
the mix, but this club, Send
Me Lord, actually plans to
help connect students with
other organizations.
“Send Me Lord is a
community and campus
unification service-based
organization,” said Morgan
Myrick, president of SML.
“Our main goal was to try to
include organizations, clubs
and different departments
that aren’t usually involved
in community service ... We
want to recognize every
organization and help
freshmen and transfer students
get in and get involved.”
Send Me Lord will begin
this semester with its first
interest meeting Thursday
at 8:30 p.m. in Room 120 of
the Biblical Studies Building.
Myrick said after the first
interest meeting, SML will
be able to get started on
some of the many events it
has planned for the year.
“One of our biggest events
we are planning on hosting is
a big red carpet event where
we recognize every student
organization and social club
and athletic department and
give awards for each, like
for what they’ve done in the
community,” Myrick said. “It’s
SHADES Stomp-a-thon
Zak Zeinert:: chief photographer
Natasia Jackson, senior history major from Cherokee, steps to new choreography during the
SHADES’ tryouts Wednesday.
We're trying to get other organiza-
tions to work together, to help other
organizations, so one organization
isn't pulling all people in towards just
itself when they could all be involved
in more things.
:: Morgan Myrick, president of Send Me Lord
also just to put it out there,
in a fun way, what different
organizations are available
for students to get involved.”
One of the major service
projects already planned
is the “Between Sundays”
project Oct. 4, where the
ACU football team will work
with the Abilene Community
and Schools program.
Players involved will pair
with children from the
program and spend the day
with them, coaching them
in football and mentoring
them; the kids also can
attend the football game
that night.
“It’s kind of a way to
bring the football world
into the little kids world
and get them connected in
places where they wouldn’t
normally be,” Myrick said.
Other events planned
include a “fashion and
taste-test” show for the
international students,
surprise parties for both
boys and girls’ residence
halls and a car-bashing event
for Homecoming. Around
Christmas time, SML will
adopt a unit stationed in Iraq
and let the soldiers make a
wish list it will use to create a
care package in appreciation
for American troops.
Myrick said the biggest
problem SML encountered
to date has been the issue of
money and funding, “since
the SA budget got cut pretty
substantially this year.”
Otherwise, Myrick said
the biggest challenge she
expected SML to face was “just
getting everyone involved
who is willing ... because it’s
easy to get overwhelmed, and
then you feel like you don’t
have time.”
However, Myrick is confident
SML will be flexible to
accommodate every student’s
interests and needs.
“We’re trying to get other
organizations to work together,
to help other organizations, so
one organization isn’t pulling
all people in towards just itself
when they could all be involved
in more things,” Myrick said.
“SML tries to come up with
events that have times and
interests that will be something
anyone can do; we just want to
be able to include everyone
who is interested.”
E-mail Melby at: Igm05e@acu.edu
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