L3 club to raise money toward support service
KC Christoffersen
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: DSC News
If you enjoy "Rock Band," set aside Friday and play to win prizes to support a new fund for non-traditional students.
The L3 Club, or Life Long Learners Club, is hosting a contest in an effort to raise money for a new support service called Students Offering Support. The service is for students who are in emergent need of assistance.
Rae Reimer, a junior radiography major from Cincinnati and the president of the L3 Club, said the service is geared toward non-traditional students in desperate need of help they can't get on their own.
Reimer gave the example of a woman who is being physically abused and needs to get away from home. The service could be used to pay for a hotel room and food. Reimer stressed the fact that the student needs to be in emergent need of assistance.
Friday's event will be in the Gardner Center and costs $2. Everyone in the audience has the chance to win a prize, and $500 worth of prizes have been donated so far. The top five scorers of the game will play a final song, and the audience will get to choose the winner.
The L3 Club is hosting the event because it concentrates on bringing non-traditional students together. Non-traditional students are those who don't fit the mold of students in their late teens or early 20s who are immediately continuing their education. They are students who are returning after a long absence or are coming back to school while having a family.
The club has been in existence since 1987 with a focus as a social network for non-traditional students, adviser David Zundel said.
"Stuff like Miss Dixie just doesn't interest our demographic as much," Reimer said.
L3 provides a way for non-traditional students to meet people in a similar situation.
"You can feel very isolated and overwhelmed when you're one of only two or three returning students in a class of people 15 years your junior," Reimer said.
The club gives these students a tie to the school and a support system. This idea of support is what's behind the SOS program. Students in need are referred by their adviser or teacher, Reimer said.
Dean of Students Del Beatty was approached by Reimer with the idea of SOS. Beatty had been working with a female student with two children who was in an abusive relationship and was having trouble in classes. Beatty said it got complicated, and they didn't know how to get her out of the relationship.
Situations like this are what sparked the idea for SOS. The money raised will go toward the fund to help students who are in a situation like this and need help getting a new cell phone number, paying for rent or food, and other such needs.
"It will be up to the dean of students, whether that be me or a future dean, to decide if a student can receive some of the money from the fund," Beatty said.
He said this is for confidentiality of the student.
The L3 Club, or Life Long Learners Club, is hosting a contest in an effort to raise money for a new support service called Students Offering Support. The service is for students who are in emergent need of assistance.
Rae Reimer, a junior radiography major from Cincinnati and the president of the L3 Club, said the service is geared toward non-traditional students in desperate need of help they can't get on their own.
Reimer gave the example of a woman who is being physically abused and needs to get away from home. The service could be used to pay for a hotel room and food. Reimer stressed the fact that the student needs to be in emergent need of assistance.
Friday's event will be in the Gardner Center and costs $2. Everyone in the audience has the chance to win a prize, and $500 worth of prizes have been donated so far. The top five scorers of the game will play a final song, and the audience will get to choose the winner.
The L3 Club is hosting the event because it concentrates on bringing non-traditional students together. Non-traditional students are those who don't fit the mold of students in their late teens or early 20s who are immediately continuing their education. They are students who are returning after a long absence or are coming back to school while having a family.
The club has been in existence since 1987 with a focus as a social network for non-traditional students, adviser David Zundel said.
"Stuff like Miss Dixie just doesn't interest our demographic as much," Reimer said.
L3 provides a way for non-traditional students to meet people in a similar situation.
"You can feel very isolated and overwhelmed when you're one of only two or three returning students in a class of people 15 years your junior," Reimer said.
The club gives these students a tie to the school and a support system. This idea of support is what's behind the SOS program. Students in need are referred by their adviser or teacher, Reimer said.
Dean of Students Del Beatty was approached by Reimer with the idea of SOS. Beatty had been working with a female student with two children who was in an abusive relationship and was having trouble in classes. Beatty said it got complicated, and they didn't know how to get her out of the relationship.
Situations like this are what sparked the idea for SOS. The money raised will go toward the fund to help students who are in a situation like this and need help getting a new cell phone number, paying for rent or food, and other such needs.
"It will be up to the dean of students, whether that be me or a future dean, to decide if a student can receive some of the money from the fund," Beatty said.
He said this is for confidentiality of the student.
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