Addressing global food inequality SOUTH END TEEN CENTER BBQ RELIGION AT COLBY Hunger banquet Union on Thursday, April 23, divided bles, the "middle" 20 percent received Faith at core students up into three separate groups. just enough rice, beans and water, and brings resource Upon entering the event, attendees re- sat in chairs while the bottom tier, ceived a number that correlated to one consisting of 70 percent of the atten- of life for disparity to light of the groups, each serving as a dees, were given a meager amount of metaphor for a level of global re- rice and water. They ate on the floor. source availability. Before students were allowed to many on Hill By ALEXANDER RICHARDS Depending on their designated cat, however, cards relating stories SENIOR NEWS EDITOR from members of each of these real- By ALLISON EHRENREICH world groups were distributed. The ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Over 100 million peop le who top echelon was allowed to eat earlier were once able to provide food for While 800 mil- than the rest , and was provided with Leaving home for Mayflower Hill themselves recently lost that ability, lion people suf- accounts of wealthier citizens who ex- four years ago, Catherine Woodiwiss '09 and "joined the ranks of the hun- pected good nutrition and education knew that she was casting aside the gry." according to a notice sent out fer from for their children, whereas members comfortable, familiar and nurturing en- by the Colby Volunteer Center chronic hunger, of the lower groups learned about vironment that she had taken for granted. [CMC) and LuziCare. families whose primary concerns in- She knew that her new life in col- In order to bring this reality to globally, clude the chance that their children lege would challenge her in every lig ht-—a difficult task on a campus enough food is may die of hunger. way. She would have to make new i\ here dining halls often shut down at "It was a really concrete way to ed- friends and create another nurturing the end of the day with many pounds produced to ucate people on hunger and food se- community that would replace the of food left uneaten or thrown away— feed 12 billion curity," Goldring said. comforts of her childhood home. t VC and LuziCare, an organization After the meal, a presentation was While it may take months for most founded by Jamie Goldring '09 to people... given, outlining a number of statistics students to meet classmates who share limdraise for medical care in Malawi , approximately provided by Oxfam (a group dedi- similar ideals and backgrounds, \t'nca, partnered up to put on a cated to fighting poverty and hunger) Woodiwiss knew where she would Hunger Banquet." The event itself two times the... regarding worldwide food consump- find like-minded friends immediately. w as spearheaded by LuziCare mem- population. tion and allocation. Among the more She chose to connect the Colby Chris- bers Megan "Petie" Booth '11 , Sarah powerful messages was that while tian Fellowship (CCF) soon after she Ramsay ' 11 and John Perkins '11 , 800 million people suffer from arrived on campus. who is also involved with CVC. chronic hunger, globally, enough Having grown up a dedicated The banquet , held in the Lower food is produced feed 12 billion peo- Christian, she knew that leaving home Programming Space (LoPo) of Cotter group, the students received a propor- ple-approximately two times the would challenge her faith. Coming to tionate amount of food. The "top" 10 global population. TATE KANESKIGE/THE C04BV ECHC tiie College "made me take ownership percent of banquet-goers received an The slides also illustrated the dis- Ben Hummel '11 grills organic food at a barbeque sponsored by the of my faith and ask some realty diffi- Reporting for this article by Allison abundant amount of food—a full Colby Organic Gardening Club, Colby Waterville Alliance and the Colby cult questions—'do I actually believe Ehrenreich, Asst. News Editor meal—and were permitted to sit at ta- Volunteer Center on Friday. April 24 at the South End Teen Center See HUNGER, Page 3 this?'—It was hard, but necessary." She found her faith strengthened, more WOODSMEN'S TEAM assured and, more than ever, her own- In doing so, she joined a small, yet vibrant community: religious life on campus. Senior wins women's division at Dartmouth The CCF is one of several reli- gious groups at the College, which in- eight other lumberjills from re- a chainsaw) and single buck (where Hutchins came in third, first, $500 scholarship from Stihl and a cludes the Colby Muslim Group. Hutch ins takes gional schools in three Stihl Tim- the competitor cuts through a round and fourth respectively in each Kcech racing ax. She outsawed, Colby Hillei—a Jewish group—and f emale title, wins bersports professional discip lines log in the shortest time possible event, yet it was just enough to outchopped and outbucked fellow the Newman Council , a Catholic to take the title. win the Challenge. lumberjills from State University of community. These groups provide the scholarship "In the Stihl "Overall 1 beat the (University of New York College of Environmental framework and moral support for stu- competition , I New Hampshire (UNH)] girl by one Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), dents to remain active in their reli- was really ex- point , which was pretty exciting," Finger Lakes Community College, gion, both spiritually and By NICK CUNKELMAN cited that the Hutchins said. "I was surprised to Paul Smith's College, State Univer- intellectually. They can look to each SPORTS EDITOR women would win because I didn 't win every sity of New York Cobleskill (SUNY- other for conversations on faith , an get a chance to event , but I competed consistentl y Cobleskill), Unity College, often-taboo subject among the non- In the history of the Colby woods- compete , " through all three, which is really im- University of Vermont, UNH, and of religious. And they can take comfort men 's team and the hundred-year Hutchins said. portant when you only have three course, Dartmouth. in shared beliefs and experiences. history of the Dartmouth College "The northeast events that count." Hutchins won a Outing Club (DOC) there has never region is usually With the title. See WOODSMEN, Page 17 See RELIGION, Page 11 been a weekend quite like the one the strongest in that ensued in Hanover on April 24- terms of teams, -s indeed , not only did the DOC— and has the founded in 1909—celebrate its most competi- explores ' issues of class s Class centennial this year, but it also tive women hosted the 63rd annual Woodsmen teams which is Weekend, a competition that fea- why we were Forum highlights The class surveyed 150 students on ipants hold occupations that require tured the Northeast qualifier of the the only region the Hill, making a special effort to in- education beyond high school. 76 per- Stihl Timbersports Collegiate Chal- to have the research by clude an equal number of men and cent of the participants remarked that lenge as well as the first-ever Stihl women's com- students, prof essor women. 93 percent of the people sur- college was an expectation. "This Timbersports women's collegiate petition." veyed identified themselves as either number is inconsistent with the na- lumberjack event. The women's middle class or upper middle class. tional average, which is closer to 91 This finding, she said, was not far percent for high-income students and The occasion was notable lumberjack event ESPN COM By JAMES BELTRAN & '' enough in and of itself, certainly, featured the un- Woodsman Sara Hutchins '09 competes at Dartmouth. MICHAEL BROPHY from the national average: 80 percent 35 percent for low-income students, but Colby 's own Sara Hutchins derhand chop, NEWS STAFF of Americans identify themselves as Merzbach said. '09 made it monumental for the the stock saw middle-class. Along with the survey, kinder- Mules , winning the women 's (which involves making two cuts, using a crosscut saw), all done in a As part of an effort to raise aware- "The majority of Colby students garten, third grade and sixth grade stu- event outright. Hutchins defeated one up and one down, on a log with head-to-head style. ness on social class at the College, a grew up in suburban, affluent neigh- dents were asked to depict who is forum entitled "Let 's Talk About borhoods , although the second most successful or unsuccessful through Class" was held by Associate Profes- frequent answer was rural." In addi- COLBY CARES DAY sor of Education Adam Howard's So- tion, most of the parents of the partic- See CLASS, Page 3 cial Class and Schooling education course to bnng more exposure to how social class plays a role in the life of the College. THIS WEEK'S ECHO The main point of the discussion is that social class distinctions go much deeper than simply how much money we have. "We don 't do a very good job in America of talking about social class and when we do, we tend to focus on money," Howard said. In his book Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent School- ing, he describes three types of capi- tal: social , cultural , and economic. It is not just how much money one have that defines class, it is the social in- sight and connections one has because of one's social standing. The program began with Judy Merzbach ' 11 explaining posters dis- played in Pulver Pavilion and the Di- amond atrium. These posters presented information on social class on the Hill.