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The Red and Black • Thursday, November 29, 1990 • 3
Group defies gravity
for fun, entertainment
By JOANNA HORTON
Campus Correspondent
With her eyes clenched shut,
the young woman stood motion
less between two people hurling
juggling pins only inches away on
either side of her head.
In a fury of light and fire, an
other street performer juggles
knives and torches for a de
lighted audience. Nearby, a uni-
cyclist weaves gracefully through
the crowd.
No, it isn’t a carnival or circus,
but a group of University stu
dents who have formed a club
called the Gravity Defiance Asso
ciation.
The group, made up of novice
jugglers and professional street
perfomers, was formed last year
by three students. Now they get
together and practice for fun and
entertainment.
Some of the club members are
paid to perform at birthday par
ties and other events. A few of
these jugglers are regulars at the
Renaissance festival and Cal
laway Gardens Azalea festival.
Ben Ehrenberg, junior math
education major, said he learned
the technique of juggling several
years ago.
“Someone told me on a dare
that I couldn’t learn to do three-
ball juggling,” he said. “What
started as a hobby has become a
part-time job.”
Lance Barber, one of the club’s
founders, said, “A lot of people
don’t realize we don’t just do
three-ball juggling. We also
juggle cigar boxes and rings and
devil sticks.”
But the Gravity Defiance Asso
ciation isn’t just for the veteran
jugglers.
“We’ve taught many people to
juggle,” Barker said. r Tnis orga
nization is for anyone who wants
to have fun and laugh and
juggle.”
Brumby sends holiday
cheer to U.S. troops
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By ANGELA HORNSBY
Staff Writer
Soldiers in the Middle East
probably won’t make it home in
time for the holidays this year, so
students in Brumby Hall are
bringing a little bit of the
Christmas spirit to them.
Dormitory residents are sending
gifts to the troops in an effort to
spread Christmas cheer over the
Saudi Arabian desert.
Kelli Krulac, a freshman pre-
journalism major and president of
Liberty Park on the 9tn floor, said
each hall on Sunbury Colony,
which consists of the 8th and 9th
floors of Brumby, is in charge of
contributing a specific gift.
She said nails are collecting such
items as hard candy, playing cards,
crossword books and board games.
Troops will also receive necessi
ties such as shaving cream, razors
and toothbrushes.
Krulac said giving gifts is more
substantial than just sending let
ters.
Stacy Eckard, a graduate resi
dent and adviser to the President’s
Council in Brumby, said the deci
sion to send presents to the troops
was made by the Sunbury Council
a week before Thanksgiving break.
“One of our RAs’ brothers is over
there,” she said. “We have a per
sonal tie-in.”
Eckard said she hopes the board
games and other gifts will help
troops pass the time.
“We know they will be missing
their family and friends,” she said.
Paula Life, a sophomore early
childhood education-administra
tion major and RA on Brumby’s
Forrester Hall, said the gifts will
be sent to members of her brother’s
unit, the 320th Military Police
Company.
“They are really lonely out
there," she said. “It’s neat to see a
whole group of people that don’t
even know you come together.”
Life said she estimates it will
take three to four weeks for the
troops to receive the gifts.
“They should get them right be
fore Christmas or a few days after,”
she said.
Wendy Cole, a freshman busi
ness management major, said she
feels the gifts will mean a lot to the
soldiers.
“Anything they get will be spe
cial,” she said.
Teacher Assistant Program: Teachers and students give it thumbs up
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By CLINT BARRENTINE
Campus Correspondent
It’s mid-morning in Mrs. How
ell’s third-grade class. Kids are
•laying or reading in small groups.
*et gerbils are cavorting in their
cages. And it’s University student
Kim Larkin — not Mrs. Howell —
who’s sitting at the teacher’s desk,
grading math problems.
Larkin, a sophomore education
major, is a volunteer in Commu-
niversit/s Teacher Assistant Pro
gram, under which University
students can help Athens teachers
during the school year.
“I figured this was the best way
to find out whether I wanted to be
a teacher,” she said, still checking
addition problems in the instruc
tor’s workbook. “I can learn how a
classroom works by picking up on
things teachers do.”
Although the program isn’t a
substitute for student teaching,
Larkin said it can provide valuable
experience for students interested
in education.
To get into the program, Larkin
had to return an application to
Communiversity and interview
with program coordinators. Volun
teers and coordinators also meet
monthly.
Her assigned teacher, Shirley
Howell, a third-grade teacher at
Alps Road Elementary School, said
she thinks the program is well-or
ganized. If volunteers can’t show
up, they always call beforehand.
“I think it’s excellent,” she said.
“It’s like having two extra hands
and a mind to go with them.”
Howell said volunteer help al
lows her to spend more time with
the children and that Larkin inter
acts well with them.
‘The children love her to work
with them,” she said. “She’s very
good with the kids.”
Coordinators at the Teacher As
sistant Program said the smooth
way the program works, for volun
teers as well as teachers, is due in
part to efforts this year to renew
interest in, and improve the orga
nization of, the program.
After a recent decline in volun-
teerism, the program has 55 new
volunteers this year, Cori Mikesell,
program coordinator, said. The
program had an estimated 23
people at the beginning of last
year.
“We did have a problem with vol
unteers who went for a month and
then dropped out,” she said. “At
the end or last year, we had only
four volunteers left.”
The program — one of six spon
sored by Communiversity — has
volunteers in eight elementary and
middle schools, and coordinators
are planning to expand, she said.
The program was started in 1979
on an experimental basis, but par
ticipation dropped off in the mid-
and late-1980s.
Jennifer Herrell, program devel
opment coordinator, said people
sometimes weren’t interested be
cause the program wasn’t well-or
ganized.
“We try to keep more in touch
with volunteers now,” she said.
“Before, we really weren’t aware of
problems.”
Teachers and volunteers now
evaluate each other to ensure that
both sides are satisfied, Herrell, a
sophomore education major, said.
Amy Bowling, an area coordi
nator, said she worked as a volun
teer last year and gained valuable
experience.
“I was having doubts about my
major,” said the junior education
major, “and the program really
changed my mind.”
Tracy Babiasz, a sophomore edu
cation major who worked as a vol
unteer last year, said her assigned
teacher let her lead a fifth-grade
reading class as well as grade pa
pers.
“It was nice to get up in front of
the classroom,” said Babiasz, now
an area coordinator.
Gayl6 Moore, a fourth-grade tea
cher at Alps Road Elementary,
said, "I think it’s good to have
something like this between the
education department and the
schools.”
Frances Chapman, an art tea
cher at Saint Joseph’s Catholic
School, said her volunteers always
show up and do anything from pho
tocopying class materials to
helping students who are behind in
class.
“I think it works excellently,"
she said. “I’ve never had a problem
before.”
Anyone interested may call
Mikesell at Communiversity, 542-
3713.
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