Colgate Hunger Outreach Program (CHOP) is sponsoring events this week to spread awareness on campus and in the community about hunger and homelessness in the United States.
Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week includes events such as food drives, panel discussions, and a 13-hour famine — all with the goal of creating interest in these global concerns.
Frederick Kaufman, author of A Short History of the American Stomach, will lecture and facilitate discussion Tuesday on the global implications of eating locally. He will co-moderate an open session at 7:30 p.m. that will include local farmers, producers, consumers, and others.
Organizer Elizabeth Harkins ’09 said in addition to attending events, students and others can get involved and help relieve hunger and homelessness in the Hamilton community by:
• Donating food and toiletries to the Hamilton Food Cupboard, or through CHOP.
• Volunteering at Hope House in Utica
• Making dessert for a local soup kitchen – The Friendship Inn
To get involved contact the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education or CHOP members. The week’s events also are sponsored by the Division of University Studies, the First-Year Experience, the First-Year Seminar Program, and the Upstate Institute.
Monday
• Class of 2012 Think Tank: Why are so many people who reside in the United States living in poverty?
Time:12:10 p.m.
Place: Frank Dining Hall (Private Dining Room)
Tuesday Eat Local/Think Global Events
• Luncheon with author Frederick Kaufman, author of A Short History of the American Stomach, and Nancy Ries, associate professor of anthropology and peace & conflict studies
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Place: ALANA Cultural Center.
Featuring: Discussion on the interrelationship of food/farming, history, culture, sociology and economics in the US and in Russia.
• Frederick Kaufman Reading
Time: 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Place: 20 Lawrence Hall
Featuring: Reading and book signing of A Short History of the American Stomach
• Hunger Banquet
Time: 5:30pm – 7pm
Place: James C. Colgate Hall, Clark Room
Featuring: Banquet in conjunction with Oxfam’s World Hunger Day
• Eat Local/Think Global Panel
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Place: James C. Colgate Hall, Hall of Presidents
Featuring: Moderators Kaufman and Ries with local farmers, producers, consumers, and others.
Wednesday
• 13-Hour Famine from 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Featuring: 7:30 a.m. Kickoff Breakfast in the COVE
• Film: Waging a Living
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: 27 Persson Hall
Followed by a “break-fast” for those participating in the 13-hour famine
Thursday
• Colgate/Cornell hockey game toiletry drive
Friday
• COVE lunch panel on social groups bearing the brunt of poverty
Time: 12:15
• Harvest Party at the Palace Theater from 11 p.m. – 2 a.m. including can drive to benefit the Hamilton Food Cupboard
Extended events
• Monday through Friday – We Funk is selling T-shirts and baked goods at COOP tables to raise money for the Hamilton Food Cupboard
• Monday-Wednesday – Scrape the Plate in collaboration with Students for Environmental Action (SEA)