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�e Kalamazoo area has plenty of opportunities available both on and o� campus for people to vol-unteer or put in hours for com-munity service.

“At any given time, we have more than 500 volunteer opportu-nities on our website at more than 230 nonpro�t organizations,” said Amanda Reel, program coordina-tor of Volunteer Kalamazoo.

On Campus Opportunities- Children’s Place Learning Cen-

ter. (269) 387-2277. 210 Wilbur Ave. Kalamazoo MI, 49008-5228

- Drive Safe Kalamazoo. Go to http://drivesafekalamazoo.com to sign up.

- Miller Auditorium. (269) 387-2320. 2200 Auditorium Drive Kalamazoo MI, 49008

Clothing-related Volunteering- Goodwill Industries of South-

west Michigan. (269) 382-0490. 420 E. Alcott St. Kalamazoo MI, 49001

Volunteering With Children- Kalamazoo Public Library

Ready to Read Program. (269) 553-7885. 315 S. Rose S. Kala-mazoo MI, 49007

- Big Brothers, Big Sisters. (269) 382-6800. 3501 Covington Road Kalamazoo, MI 49001

Food-related Volunteering- Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes.

(269) 488-2617 ext. 209. 913 E. Alcott St. Kalamazoo MI, 49001

- Fair Food Matters. (269)492-1270. N. Burdick St. Kalama-zoo MI, 49007

- Taste of Heaven. (269) 349-0849. 111 E. Kalamazoo Ave. Kalam-azoo MI, 49007

Volunteer Work With Animals- Kalamazoo Humane Society.

(269) 345-1181. 4239 S. West-nedge Ave. Kalamazoo MI, 49048

- Canine Safe Harbor. (269) 375-2736. 8171 W. Kl Ave. Kalama-zoo MI, 49009

Other Volunteer Opportunities- �e Civic �eatre. (269) 343-

3380. 329 S. Park St. Kalama-zoo MI, 49007

- Kalamazoo Valley Habitat for

Humanity Inc. (269) 344-2443. 525 E. Kalamazoo Ave. Kala-mazoo MI, 49007

- Kalamazoo Nature Center. (269) 381-1574 ext. 23. 7000 N. Westnedge Ave. Kalamazoo MI, 49009

- American Red Cross of Greater Kalamazoo Area. (269) 353-8657. 5460 Venture Court Ka-lamazoo, MI 49009

- Greater Kalamazoo United Way. Go online to complete a volun-teer form at http://www.kalam-azoounitedway.org/volunteerStudents looking to volunteer

for classes should sign up for vol-unteer work shortly a�er receiv-ing the assignment.

“It’s not recommended that students wait until the last minute or even the last couple of weeks before the due date because it can sometimes take a few weeks to �nd a place and get scheduled for a volunteer shi�. Organizations are not o�en able to just bring you in right a�er you call. Most of them have a process they have to go through before you can even get started. You’re going to make it very di�cult on yourself if you try to schedule something at the last minute,” Reel said.

For more opportunities, more information or volunteer positions available, students can contact Volunteer Kalamazoo at (269) 382-8350.

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Lend a hand and volunteer

Most high school cafeterias has had its fair share of food �ghts, but the thought rarely crosses a student’s mind a�er they enter college.

However, one Western Michi-gan University student did just that and started her very own “Food Fight.” Freshman Molly Cahill founded a nonpro�t orga-nization in her sophomore year of high school with two seniors,

Jordan Prosapio and Jonathan Meneses. She started the orga-nization because the students wanted to see a change. �ey three students knew they were more fortunate than a majority of other teens and wanted to give back to those in need.

“�e hardest part of getting started was getting people to take us seriously,” Cahill said. “No one takes three high school students to be serious when they want to start a nonpro�t.”

�e trio started o� in three of

�ve high schools in Naperville, Ill. �e group gained support from the school board a�er the board witnessed immense sup-port from the students at the three high schools.

“Food Fight is more of a sat-ellite company to a bigger non-pro�t called Feeding Children International,” Cahill said. “�ey are the ones who connect us to countries in need.”

With the new semester ap-proaching, more and more stu-dents will start looking for jobs. Whether that job is part time, full time or an internship, a pol-ished resume paired with good interviewing skills will increase a student’s chances of securing a job that best �ts their needs and areas of study.

Western Michigan Univer-sity is rich in volunteer programs, Registered Student Organizations and other opportunities. Some students regularly participate in the services o�ered. One ques-tion o�en asked when joining an organization is how the volunteer services will look on a resume.

“Any time a college student has an opportunity to expand upon their academics will prove helpful,” said Lynn Kelly-Albert-son, assistant director of Western Michigan University’s Career and Student Employment Services.

Employers look for three key components on a resume, said Kelly-Albertson. �e �rst is edu-cation.

“�e second is work experi-ence, which includes both full and part time jobs as well as intern-ships. �e third is anything that students have actively explored beyond the school environment,”

she said. Phil Korista, a WMU senior,

has done his fair share of explor-ing. He is a member of WMU’s Habitat for Humanity RSO, which is connected to United Campus Ministries at Kanley Chapel and has seen the volun-teering process and its personal impact �rsthand.

“People should volunteer, whether in Habitat or other non-pro�t organizations, because it opens your eyes and heart,” he said.

Kelly-Albertson said volun-teering can be great to source dur-ing your interview. “You want to be able to explain why you were passionate about the project or organization,” she said. “Employ-ers want to know not only what organization you volunteered for, but what was done, how long the process was and the overall out-come.”

Korista recalled his own ex-periences working in a volunteer organization and its e�ect on his outlook.

“My �rst Habitat for Humanity house I worked on almost three years ago was in Kalamazoo’s North side,” he said. “I saw empty houses and yards with eviction notices. �e family we were help-ing and so many more were truly struggling, and right away, the ‘lazy poor’ stigma vanishes.”

�is desire to help, Kelly-Alb-ertson said, is what fuels the most success when explaining student volunteerism. “Most employers hire students because they want to work, so their resume should re�ect that they were personally interested in the volunteering and not doing it just because it was re-quired for a class.”

A desire for volunteering can begin early in a student’s career, Korista said.

“Many times, kids who join for class requirements will feel

that inspiration, step up and be-gin volunteering,” he said. “In fact, some of the most dedicated student volunteers began volun-teering for class hours. �is is not to dispute the value of the hard work that other students do.”

Altruism, he said, is the core of Habitat for Humanity and other nonpro�t organizations.

“Altruism is a great quality to look for in an employee,” said Kelly-Albertson. “Employers like to hire people who are hard-working, dedicated, and kind and volunteer experience re�ects all those qualities. Businesses en-courage potential employees to highlight their personalities as much as possible.”

�is personality-based re-sume, Kelly-Albertson said, works in tandem with the new “person-ality-based” style of interviewing. Several employers ask questions as a means of testing the potential employee’s problem solving, lead-ership and service skills. “Rather than simply asking for the inter-viewee’s strengths and weakness-es,” Kelly-Albertson said. “�ey

ask questions that start with, ‘tell me about a time when…’” �ese questions help employers gauge for what position a prospective employee would be best suited.

Korista emphasized the im-portance of being genuine when promoting past volunteer experi-ences.

“You learn the truth of ineq-uity and poverty very fast, yet, by doing something about it, you become inspired,” he said. “I think there are two forks in the road when it comes to vast prob-lems like poverty and social in-equity. One road leads to despair and inaction. �e other leads to something bigger than you, big-ger than your life.”

Most students are motivated to volunteer because they want to help their community, not because they want a bigger pay-check.

“�at’s the greatest thing about volunteering,” Korista said. “You step outside of yourself and become part of something much more important, the cause of love.”

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Trevor Ritsema /Western HeraldCatey Koch, student, works on updating her resumé on Sunday, Dec. 5. “I believe having volunteer work on my resumé makes me look more well rounded,” says Koch.

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Student leads nonpro�itBy Lexie CausleySta� Reporter

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Like the smooth, steady swing of jazz, Michael Dunn’s paintings have rhythm, a lively pulse and colorful beat. �ey also have shape, albeit a strange one—twisted and contorted, represen-tational of space and time. Much like the music they resemble, Dunn’s paint-ings are free, unstructured and �owing, and can be viewed through Dec. 22 on the second �oor of the College of Health and Human Services building.

Dunn’s paintings are reminiscent of Kerouac prose, pulsing with a staccato rhythm, full of free form brush strokes that curl and stretch into discernible shapes that tell a story, bringing the im-age to life. Like a trippy re�ection in a funhouse mirror, Dunn’s work is repre-sentational and symbolic. “Heads Up! was a six to seven year long process,” said Dunn of his creation. “I did a lot of face drawing every day.”

Dunn said his artwork is a bit of self explanation and personal history.

“People rub o� on you—that person you saw at the grocery store—its sub-conscious, a connection you have with everyone,” he added. “It’s universal but archetypal, and my way of tapping into something in art that’s been going on a long time.”

�e exhibit consists of four di�erent series of work, done in basic graphite or a combination of colored pencil and the medium. Others go beyond typical conventions and feature textured rub-bing. To achieve this expressive e�ect, Dunn begins by making small lines on paper, sketching until he sees some-thing he likes. He may even scratch around the material with a nail or other sharp object before drawing over top. �e pieces Dunn creates o�en feature layers and layers of paint, scratching, etching and scribbling to create the de-sired look.

“�ere’s always a message, a psy-chology to what I’m doing,” Dunn said. “�ere’s a search going on—technique comes along for the ride. Content is �rst. I try to represent time and space in my work within a 2D space. I want to show passage within that paper. I think of technique as a tool…a way to push

spatial �atness in paintings.” Dunn’s paintings o�en feature heads drawn with turned faces, to give the viewers a sense of change and motion—emphasizing that nothing remains the same.

Full of bright, Caribbean colors and expressive lines and shapes, Dunn pre-fers his art to be playful and unstruc-tured as possible.

“Whenever I’m drawing, I don’t know what to expect!” he said. “I never plan anything out, never look at pho-tographs.”

In college, Dunn studied photogra-phy and copied photos to start.

“Since then, I’ve moved away from photos as a tool and primarily use my memory—I draw and react as opposed to copying.”

Going with the �ow is a far cry from Dunn’s work as an architect, a job cen-tered around tight control and plan-ning. For Dunn, art is an outlet of ex-pression, unrestricted creativity. A�er being kept up so long in logic, numbers and careful planning, art is meditation to him, as relaxing as a hot cup of tea.

Large and bold, like the wail of a sax, it’s no wonder that Dunn, like many artists, is strongly in�uenced by his own feelings and experiences.

“Moods motivate me,” he said. “I usually work in a series—I’ve drawn series of heads, �gures, knots, and rocks…12 to 20 pieces simultaneously. Each piece feeds o� the other, and they all evolve together. I love seeing how series communicate with each other.”

With his constant sketching and interplay of pieces, Dunn will have no problems with future inspiration. Rediscovering his love for photogra-phy, Dunn o�en takes his camera out to capture the areas surrounding his home, to sharpen his eye and appreci-ate the subtleties of his neighborhood. “Most people run through life and don’t pause to see what’s special,” Dunn observed. “Taking photos near my home has opened up a lot.”

“�e longer you look, the more you see” may be the motto behind Dunn’s work. To test one’s perception, the gal-lery may be viewed Monday through �ursday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Satur-day and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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By Taylor LarsonSta� Reporter

CHHS displays rhythmic artwork

Feeding Children International gives the students a place to store the food once they receive it. �ey have strict speci�cations of how food needs to be packaged and how much it should weigh in order to be allowed to send overseas.

Last year, the �ve high schools in Naperville had 1,100 students participate and they helped pack over 99,861 meals that they sent to Haiti. �ey have sent meals to Haiti for the past two years and in 2009, they sent meals to Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Cahill is currently trying to expand the organization. Cur-rently it is just in Naperville and the leadership gets passed on year to year. �eir mission is to harness the potential of high school stu-dents in order to eradicate hunger

across the world, according to the nonpro�t’s website. Now, they are reaching out to university stu-dents.

“I want to use Western as an experiment,” Cahill said. “I want to make Food Fight bigger. I want to bring it to a college level and ex-pand the mission.”

Students looking to get in-volved with Food Fight can donate online at the o�cial website, food-�ghtforhunger.com. Donations are used to help package the food. When the high school students get together to package the food, it is basically a meal in a bag. �ey stand in an assembly line style and each one adds a scoop of some-thing di�erent to compose a meal.

“�is organization is incredibly important to me,” Cahill said. “It opened my eyes up to how much one person can really change the world.”

Thursday, December 8, 2011 5Man-on-the street: How do you volunteer?

From Page 3Food

Cassie StagnerSophomore

Taylor BishopJunior

Kyle BerrymanSophomore

Wendy HollandWMU student

Lauryn MumaWMU student

Rachel StickneyFreshman

Matt GruesbeckSophomore

Gian RiveraWMU student

Stagner helped found the Saint Claire But-ter�y Foundation, which raises money for abused children, social services, and re-adoption. “I love doing that kind of work, I think it is important to help children because they can’t help them-selves,” Stagner said.

Berryman volun-teered to help a dis-abled police o�cer clean his house. He served food at a pan-try for the homeless in Detroit and served food in a senior citi-zen home. “People were always very thankful, they have the same values, just a harder life,” Berry-man said.

Muma has volun-teered with 4th graders, for Com-munities in Schools, helping tutor chil-dren with math and reading. “Volunteer-ing made me feel good about myself, helping kids with reading and math.” Muma said.

Gruesbeck volun-teered for Eaton Rapid High School, as the assistant coach for the men’s JV basketball team. “It felt really good to help out, I got to see the other side of coaching,” Grues-beck said.

Rivera volunteered at Boys and Girls Club; he played with children at recess and made art with them. “I felt like I was really making an impact on the kids’ lives,” Rivera said.

Stickney has volun-teered for the March of Dimes, bread li�. “We make T-shirts every year and that money goes to babies and mothers in the Portage, Kalama-zoo area for March of Dimes, and also, those who give mon-ey receive a loaf of bread for their dona-tion,” Stickney said.

Holland has volun-teered her time in two di�erent nursing homes, walked dogs, and helped men-tor middle school children with being bullied for Natural Helpers.

Bishop has volun-teered at the YMCA camp, Manitou-lin, in Middleville. He has been a camp coun-selor since his junior year in high school. “It’s fun being a coun-selor, I remembered my sixth grade coun-selor and thought, ‘I want to do that when I am old enough,’” Bishop said.

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Situated high in a corner of the Gwen Frostic School of Art, Mindi Ba-gnall’s creation, “�e World Wide Web,” carries an ominous message.

�e intricate tangle of delicate dollhouses snared in a spider’s web of cables signi�es the emer-gence of cyberspace into the real, concrete world and what happens when technology intermingles with real time existence, a visual representation of how technol-ogy has the capacity to bind and trap. Originally displayed in Grand Rapid’s Fountain Street Church as an ArtPrize submis-sion, �e World Wide Web may be viewed at the Gwen Frostic School of Art until Dec. 16.

While some artists �nd their muse in the eyes of a beautiful woman, others �nd their start-ing point within themselves, so-cial issues or nature. Mindi Ba-gnall gained inspiration for her piece from an itsy bitsy spider.

“I kept lots of pictures of spiderwebs, and there was one picture of a web in particu-lar that had an octagon hole in the middle,” said Bagnall. “I thought, that looks like a house, and went from there. Home and shelter is part of my thing.”

�e corner piece, which took Bagnall about four months to complete, is a departure from her usual work –pieces that tend to be mostly paint (acrylic and wa-tercolor) or basic pen and pencil. Bagnall’s skills in these mediums are well developed. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in wa-tercolor and, in 2007, her Mas-ter of Fine Arts in painting from Western Michigan University.

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�e choirs of Western Michi-gan University recently under-went a major change: Dr. Kim-berly Dunn-Adams is the new face around the Dalton Center for the Arts this year as the new director of choirs.

“I did my undergrad at Ober-lin Conservatory and Oberlin College where I got a bachelor’s of music in voice performance and a bachelor of arts in religion with a specialization in modern thought,” Dunn-Adams said. “�at actually closely parallels much 20th century music, which I have always loved. I got a mas-ter’s degree in choral conducting from Yale with a certi�cation in sacred music, and then I received my doctorate in choral conduct-ing at the University of Wisconsin with a minor in music theory.”

�is education in choral con-ducting and her love of making music with others drew her to Western, she said.

“Western has a decade-long tradition of great choral singing” she said. “I noticed immediately that the students were dedicated to both choir and their own solo performance. �ey are all so bright, motivated, enthusiastic and kind, and the [School of Mu-sic] faculty is very collegiate.”

Dunn-Adams said WMU will be a great �t for her and she hopes she will have a chance to leave her mark on the choirs. She said she would like the choral program at WMU to gain more of the national and international attention that it deserves.

“I believe a program this good should be more recognized nationally and internationally. WMU is already recognized on a national level, but we can always go further,” she said.

However, national recogni-tion is far from the only goal for the choirs of WMU in Dunn-Adams’ mind. She also has many academic, educational and musi-

cal goals for the students of her choirs.

“When you come into a pro-gram, it’s not about changing things, but rather about con-tinuing and enhancing the good things,” Dunn-Adams said. “I’d like to create a sense of cama-raderie between the choirs of Western. I like to refer to them as ‘�e Choral Forces,’ because that’s what they should be. I also want to develop a good four year curriculum for every student. My goal is for there to be some large ensemble opportunities, small ensemble singing, music from every genre and time period in at least �ve to six languages.”

Dunn-Adams said she be-lieves that there are important aspects to music that cannot be taught and must be learned on an individual basis.

“I’d like to approach music more philosophically. We’re not reaching out into the world for our own pride and glory, but be-cause we need to bring the goal of the �ne arts into the world. Music gives us something spe-cial. It’s not that music won’t let it rain on us, but that it’s always there,” Dunn-Adams said.

�e Collegiate Singers will be presenting a concert in February with the renowned operatic bass-baritone Samuel Ramey. Ramey, according to his website, has performed in some of the largest opera houses around the world, from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, La Scala in Italy, to Covent Garden in London.

�e Collegiate Singers of Western are set to welcome a 25 percent increase in participation next semester and Dunn-Adams hopes this trend will continue, she said.

�ose wishing to get involved with choirs at WMU will need to audition and can �nd out more information from the WMU School of Music’s website, or email Dunn-Adams directly at kimberly.adams@wmich.edu.

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Western Michigan Univer-sity �eatre can con�dently check the box for an exception-ally successful fall 2011 program complete with multiple standing ovations, sold out performances and of course, the cherry topper, absolute phenomenal acting.

With such a highly respected and successful performance sea-son thus far, here is the recap:“References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot”Sept. 22 – Oct. 2, 2011

Under the direction of WMU alumna, Tara Matkowsky, “Ref-erences to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot” swept up York Arena �eatre and its patrons in an in-tense, erotic performance where an abstract universe put the two worlds of fantasy and reality to the test. Junior Ali Shea and se-nior Cornelius Davidson, who played Gabriella and Benito in this performance, truly tore the audience into two opposing sides throughout this produc-tion, really make into an emo-

tionally gripping show. �e cast, crew and the direc-

tor of this performance sincerely captured the essence and emo-tions of Jose Rivera’s writing in this phenomenal and must see production of “References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot.”“Blithe Spirit”Oct. 6 – 16, 2011

Directed by Jim Daniels, “Blithe Spirit” is a comical farce that takes the audience on an escapade in a writer’s e�ort to obtain material for his new mys-tery novel. While doing so, he summons the eccentric Madame Arcati to host an séance, which turns into a hilarious adventure.

�e entire cast perfected these characters to the tee to make this as much of a fun, relaxed and adventurous production for the audience as they could; one that audiences could not help but laugh throughout the entire production.“�e Rocky Horror Show”Oct. 28 – 29, 2011

Under the direction of Jay Berkow and in its �rst collabora-

tion with Miller Auditorium, talk about a successful jump to the le� and a step to the right where nearly a full house of 3,000 and a cast in stilettos and �sh nets took part in the infamous Time Warp dance.

“�e Rocky Horror Show” was a highlight of WMU �e-atre’s season not just because of the wildly fun audience par-ticipation, the monstrous yet incredible staged castle or the stunning 3D projected imagery, but because the entire cast, espe-cially Zachary McConnell in his unforgettable stunning perfor-mance, is what made this pro-duction truly spectacular and successful; one truly not to miss with many in hopes of its return in years to come.

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Western Michigan Uni-versity hockey head coach Andy Murray has been se-lected for induction into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.

Murray has been inducted under the “builder’s” cat-egory and is joined by play-ers Pavel Bure, Phil Hous-ley, Raimo Helminen and Milan Novy as the class of 2012.

“It’s a proud and humbling moment,” Murray said. “I am being recognized as one guy but I have been involved with so many teams over the years and I have had a chance to work with so many great players and coaches that it is kind of hum-bling to think that they would pick your name to go in there.”

Murray, a native of Souris, Manitoba, praised his fellow inductees and said he looks forward to enjoying the induc-tion ceremony with his fam-ily at the IIHF World Cham-pionship in Sweden on May 5.

Murray coached team Can-ada to the IIHF Champion-ship in 1997, 2003 and 2007, each time with a completely di�erent roster. He is the only non-Russian head coach in the history of the IIHF World Championships to ever win three gold medals for his coun-try. Murray is the ninth Ca-nadian coach to be inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame and the 23rd Canadian overall.

Murray said his next goal is to earn a victory Friday night when the Broncos travel to Bowling Green, Ohio to do battle with Bowling Green State University. Long term, he wants to maximize each day to its full potential and im-pact the lives of those around him in a positive manner.

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By Patrick LittletonSta� Reporter

Murray inducted into IIHF