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NEWS Leadership lounge provides leadership development opportunities By Amy Lee Jacobsen
Valuing student leadership, Shepherd's Student Center offers the Leadership Lounge as a way to provide student organizations with leadership development opportunities. Desiring the goals of the yearly Leadership Conference to continue throughout the academic year, the Student Center has hosted Leadership Lounge for the past four years. Jackie Henning, second-year graduate advisor for Program Board, said the goal of the series is to help “young leaders step up, transfer leadership, and share leadership responsibilities” among other members. Featuring different speakers, topics vary from community service to prioritizing and personality. Speakers are selected to help organizations obtain the best from their organization's members and allow the organizations to interact with each other. President of Alpha Sigma Tau, Ellie Lloyd, said, “As president, I feel very strongly in encouraging all of my girls to attend these sessions as I feel it not only helps them build leadership, but it also creates a community with other Shepherd students who attend. We have all learned so much through our participation in Leadership Lounge and hope that Shepherd will continue this program.” Seeing Leadership Lounge as an opportunity to help their organizations and the community around them, sororities, fraternities, and other Shepherd organizations widely attend.
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Residence life sponsors ninth annual
Shep-or-Treat By Rachel Eddy Shepherd's campus was immersed in the Halloween spirit for the ninth annual Shep-or-Treat on Oct. 28. Hundreds of children adorned in vibrant costumes paraded around campus to a variety of activities coordinated by students and Residence Life staff. Activities included a carnival, a haunted house, trick-or-treating, and photo shoots. The costumes held a diverse variety, from bright yellow bumble-bees and shimmering princesses to magicians in top hats and bloody skeletons. Ten-year-old resident of Shepherdstown, Joseph Fraley, said his costume, complete with a white glove, was inspired by his favorite singer, Michael Jackson. The Plaza family from Shepherdstown celebrated as a family by dressing in Peter Pan-themed costumes. Dressed as Tick Tock Crock, Julian Plaza, age ten, was accompanied by his father as Captain Hook, his mother as Wendy, his younger brother as Peter Pan, and his younger sister as Tinkerbell. Julian said his favorite activity was the haunted house in Turner Hall, because "it was scarier than last year." |
Students plant
trees to improve the Chesapeake Bay Watershed By Rachel Eddy Students trudged through the mud to help plant 600 trees in about three hours on a local farm in order to improve water quality. Funded by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), the planting took place on Oct. 17 at Dr. Peter Vila's farm, a professor of environmental studies. "Not even rain was enough to dampen the spirits of the great group of people involved," said student Bethany Baddorf. Accompanying Baddorf was her young daughter, Rain. "It was also a wonderful time for my daughter to learn about the importance of taking care of not only our environment but our waters in particular," said Baddorf. Vice President of Shepherd’s Environmental Organization, Kristen Trevey, was another student volunteering with the planting. As an aquatics major, Trevey’s involvement with tree planting has increased because she is more aware of problems with shorelines that do not have trees. Many living things cannot survive in direct sunlight, so trees provide shading which creates cooler water temperatures and a habitat for animals. “This is something that is easy and really does make a difference, and you can come back in twenty years and see that the tree you planted is [a home] for animals,” said Trevey. |
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