Free ONE Concert in Bowling Green
By Nathan • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, Music, PovertyIf this is your first time here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. You may also want to checkout our list of organizations and books if you want to learn more about what this site is about.
Who do you have to thank for all this free music? Why, the WKU student body of course! WKU is the proud winner of the ONE Campus Challenge. How did they do it? Well, I couldn’t put it any better than the WKU press release on the subject so here’s what it has to say:
The ONE Campaign seeks to raise public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in developing countries. The ONE Campus Challenge is an effort to build the political will at colleges and universities around the United States to end poverty.
- Bowling Green Mayor Elaine Walker proclaiming Bowling Green a “City of ONE.”
- WKU President Gary Ransdell proclaiming WKU a “Campus of ONE” and delivering a powerful speech.
- Performances by local arts groups and bands.
- Ringing the Guthrie Tower bell once every three seconds for a minute to recognize that a child dies from poverty every three seconds.
- Partnering with the Political Engagement Project on a voter registration drive.
As a result, more than 1,700 students signed the ONE Declaration and more than 300 people wrote letters to legislators.
One of the judges said WKU “showed hustle and energy and engaged the entire community, which was impressive. Western Kentucky was savvy and the fact that they were able to get, for example, 160 people to send letters in support of the Education For All Act, showed a lot of tangible advocacy.” Holy crap is that cool! So there you go. Now go see some free music and rock yourselves out!
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