{"id":3356,"date":"2015-02-05T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:33:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:33:37","slug":"path-appears-inspires-e-town-ras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2015\/02\/05\/path-appears-inspires-e-town-ras\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas D. Kristof’s \u2018Path Appears\u2019 Inspires E-town RAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>When Nicholas Kristof speaks at the Elizabethtown College Ware Lecture in April, his inspiration will already have been imparted across the College campus in various means.<\/p>\n

One way has been shared through the College\u2019s resident assistants (RAs). As a portion of their training to be an RA, they watched part of Kristof\u2019s documentary \u201cHalf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,\u201d a film about investing in the health and autonomy of women around the globe.<\/p>\n

Viewing the documentary was a means of inspiration for the RAs to get involved in active change and to inspire their residents to do the same.<\/p>\n

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He offers tangible ideas; his stories are relatable. He\u2019s very real.\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe subject of the documentary is about being involved in service and in change,\u201d said Kristen Vieldhouse, assistant director of residence life. \u201cIt fits in well with the College.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, the Residence Life professional staff is reading, together, sections of Kristof\u2019s book \u201cA Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity,\u201d written with his wife Sheryl WuDunn. \u201cIt shows ways to take baby steps toward change,\u201d Vieldhouse said of the book.<\/p>\n

In turn, they are using the chapters as inspiration by sharing the ideas with the RAs. \u201cIt gave momentum to begin to inspire the students to be involved in service,\u201d she said. Along with the discussing the book, the \u201cA Path Appears\u201d documentary, which premiered with the first episode Jan. 26 and continues through Feb. 9, is on the televisions in the lounges of the residence halls. \u201cIt\u2019s not a requirement, but it\u2019s available. They are watching it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Required, however, is attendance to Kristof\u2019s, April 13 lecture. \u201cWe strongly encourage (the RAs) to attend, and we asked them to encourage their residents to attend, as well as get involved in some of the programs before or after,\u201d said Vieldhouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a practical author,\u201d she said of Kristof\u2019s books. \u201cHe offers tangible ideas; his stories are relatable. He\u2019s very real.\u201d<\/p>\n

His calls to action\u2014innovative strategies for making a difference\u2014Vieldhouse said, \u201care very sincere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students ask themselves \u2018what can I do where I am to help someone else\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Nicholas Kristof speaks at the Elizabethtown College Ware Lecture in April, his inspiration will already have been imparted across the College campus in various means. One way has been shared through the College\u2019s resident assistants (RAs). As a portion of their training to be an RA, they watched part of Kristof\u2019s documentary \u201cHalf the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":3360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[144,197,831,826,829,827,828,830,154],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-e-a-harvey","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-half-the-sky","tag-kristen-vieldhouse","tag-nicholas-kristof","tag-ras","tag-resident-assistants","tag-sheryl-wedunn","tag-ware-lecture","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}