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If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at a.drysdale@chronicle.utah.edu K CY E A C E H E R U I H A T U K T B N T G L R G H R S H U N G E R E S B w M 0 DT R J G V Y V I Y C p9EPRVAIII LECTURE This year's lecture will be delivered by Bonnie Honig from Brown University and will center on politics today. The Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Snail mail T for the soul BY CYNTHIA LUU /STAFF WRITER PHOTO BY KIFFER CREVELING WORD SEARCH November APPLE BASKETBALL BENNION CHRONY COMPUTER CONSTRUCTION CUPCAKE HUNGER PIPELINE SERVICE TAXES THANKSGIVING UNIVERSITY UTAH UTES VOLLEYBALL his holiday season, the LGBT Resource Center hopes to lift the spirits of incarcerated members of the LGBTQ community by writing them cards. Participants of the holiday card drive and bake sale, held in the Union on Wednesday, hoped to write 150 cards to send out to jail and prison facilities in Utah, Nevada and Colorado. Olivia Dyson, an intern at the LGBT Resource Center, and Julie Rada, a postgraduate student in the College of Fine Arts, organized the event. They gathered addresses of inmates from Black and Pink, an organization dedicated to connecting the incarcerated LGBTQ community to the outside world. "A lot of these people who are incarcerated are put into solitary confinement or separated from the general public with little to no human contact:' Dyson said. "By doing this holiday letter drive, they will be getting letters during a time of year that everyone knows should be filled with family, warmth and fun:' The organizers provided a sample as a loose guideline to ensure the cards were appropriate and supportive. The example also helped individuals who had never before written to someone who was incarcerated. "There's probably a lot of people who are walking around this campus who know family members or friends who are incarcerated and aren't talking about it," Rada said. In the LGBTQ community, Rada said, there is TODAY GET A TICKET TO HEAR SONIA SOTOMAYOR Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will speak on campus on Jan. 28, and ASUU has tickets to the event in their office. Grab yours just by dropping in and showing your UCard. DROP DEADLINE If you want to apply for funding from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for your research work with a professor, today is the deadline. Just a reminder! a BY TAYLOR ALMOND /STAFF WRITER PHOTO BY PRESTON ZUBAL meager meal was had by all at the 14th annual University of Utah Hunger Banquet. Hosted by the Bennion Center's University Service Coalition on Tuesday, the event brought speakers and organizations to discuss food insecurity in Utah, and attendees ate a small meal of soup, salad and rolls. To get in, three cans of food or $5 were required. Around 85 people donated 80 pounds of canned food and $200 — all of which went to the U's Food Pantry, Utahns Against Hungers Real Food Rising campaign and the International Rescue Committee's New Roots project Natalie Blanton, chair of the University Service Coalition and a graduate student in sociology. organized the event. A a history of people who identify as queer being criminalized and policed in ways that nonqueer individuals are not. "We want to show that this is an issue:' Dyson said. "There are mass numbers of incarcerated individuals who need support': Rada said they chose to do a public event in a high traffic area of the Union to generate more engagement from the community about both LGBTQ support and incarceration. "They're both considered taboo topics:' Rada said. "We could have mobilized the LGBTQ Center to make 150 cards, but the point was to raise awareness and start a conversation:' In addition to crafting holiday cards, the other goal of the event was to generate donations to Black and Pink. Chartwells provided the cupcakes and an individual could either donate $1, write two letters, or write one letter and donate 50 cents for a cupcake. Reghan Boelter, a freshman in medical laboratory science, said she appreciated the event's effort in making handwritten cards to reach out to individuals. "Nowadays everything is really electronic, and I feel like it's more sincere and authentic when you actually write something;' she said. "I know in my place, I would be so happy to get a letter. It's a great way to show that people still care about you:' c.luu@chronicle.utah.edu @cynthia luu ,_et serves J-riger as a al iss _e "I think the ideology that food is a luxury is to blame for much of the world's inequalities, poverty and hunger woes," she said. "Food is a human right A bare necessity, if you will." Sara Crowder of Utahns Against Hunger and Grace Henley of the International Rescue Committee both spoke at the banquet The speakers depicted what hunger is like in Utah and how their organizations help. According to an article by National Geographic, nearly 48 million people were food insecure in 2012 — two thirds of whom lived in households with a full-time working adult. For the speakers, the statistic presents a different picture than most people assume when considering a food-insecure population. In Utah, the numbers are similar. The Deseret News reported in 2012 that 14.9 percent of people in Utah were food insecure — an increase from 14.5 percent in 2010. Henley said part of the hunger issue stems from Utah's refugee population. People moving to Utah from out of the country may be unfamiliar with the food offered in grocery stores here, going hungry as a result She said Salt Lake County has 50,000 refugees — the third highest number in the country per capita. Most refugees in Salt Lake City are from Burma, Buton (an island of Indonesia) and Iraq. Blanton said she chose both speakers to talk on the "vital components of our community," focusing on hunger and food insecurity with refugees and youth. "Hunger has no silver bullet," Blanton said. "I hate that we get all uppity and stuck in our textbooks and theories up here on the 'hill,' when the real work is being [done] right here in our own community." talmond@chronicle.utah.edu @SevmourSkimmer |