Group 6: UB Honors To Serve The East Side
After talking to the incoming UB honor students, I've been in constant contact with a few of them. I've also been in contact with a couple of professors and community members who would like to see a stronger working bond between The City, developments, neighborhoods, students, etc. Yesterday I received the following request (to BRO readers) from Group 6, requesting help from anyone who can steer them in the right direction concerning help with a construction/infrastructure improvement situation on the city's East Side.
To the readers of Buffalo Rising Online:
We are group number six for the Freshman Honor’s Colloquium at University of Buffalo. We need to a perform a service project on the East Side of the city and are very interested in some sort of construction/infrastructure improvement. The problem is that there are only two of these choices in the list our instructor has given us and many, many people in our class interested in these two tasks.
We are hoping that the people who read this will be able to help us by giving us leads on potential projects of this type underway or scheduled to begin soon on the East Side of the City of Buffalo.
It would be ideal to get full information, but a name of agency and person as well as a phone number would suffice as well! (You can send information to this email address) Be sure to post your suggestion here as well so that we can get community input on the potential project.
Sincerely,
Dustin Hoffman, Andrew Hunt, Geoffrey Ruggiero, Margaret Scott, James Smith
Thanks much... Group 6, FHC @ UB
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mmiller
Newell, do they need a recommendation or a completed project? I'm assuming it's the former.
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TranspoGuy
Dustin Hoffman has an Academy Award, why does he have to go back to college?
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queenseyes
I believe they need either. Of course they have many resources, but may not have funding. They are will to tackle a large or small effort... I am talking to another group about a green project where the project is well underway (on paper), and needs a group to execute.
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Brette
TranspoGuy, one word: Plastics.
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crisa
Four years isn't enough time to accomplish much of anything. Especially not with students whose actual reasons for being in collge won't be established in any lastingplaces until after they graduate; probably years after they graduate. Buffalo hasn't got years left.
What Buffalo does need is for those college youngsters to graduate, marry, start families and buy a house here and do it NO LATER THAN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS!
The most that could be accomplished would be that the incoming students, honors or with honorable intentions, would dream up something that either has already been tried but not true or is already in the "UB" works for doing something constructive with the East Side of Buffalo.
Meantime, I always think it is interesting that anyone still uses "bussing" to mean busing as if they had the same meaning, so, I looked the two words up online and, amazingly, now they both mean the same thing!
I guess even scholars gave up on separating the two very different meanings. (I had to find a very OLD reference to be sure that I am remembering correctly.)
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queenseyes
Interesting enough, there are plenty of projects that have been started and need people (like students) who can dedicate themselves in order to move them forward. Look at what Brad Wales has done with one class in one year. We have seen great class projects on the East Side, West Side and in Allentown. We're not talking about renovating a building for condos or repairing the damage done by the Scajaquada Expressway.
And if these students get involved with these projects and Buffalo becomes a place where they know they can make a difference, then maybe they will stick around after they graduate.
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crisa
Queenseyes: Stick around, yes! My fingers are crossed.
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Activist
You should be talking to Valeria Dihaan of Fifty Women With A Vision to tie in with their work on Jefferson and Woodlawn. An infrastructure improvement project would really complement their work.
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Prodigal-Son
The Buffalo Religious Arts Center will be purchasing Saint Ann's, on Broadway at Emslie, in the near future. There will be plenty of work to do there, infrastructure wise, that would be good for students.
www.buffaloreligiousarts.org
And to plug for some partners, I know the Central Terminal is always in need of volunteers. Another great project for them to work on.
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Nan-C
What about Buffalo Reuse?
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hashma
You're right crisa, four years is nothing. I am a sophomore at UB in the Honors College and plan on attending medical school. After four years of undergrad, there is literally 11 more years of work to get to the end of training, which is usually in other cities and that doesn't include the work at the career. These kids start school thinking they have time and quickly realize how little they really have. The good news is that the Honors College is doing this every year so while the students may move on, more will take their place.
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hashma
You're right crisa, four years is nothing. I am a sophomore at UB in the Honors College and plan on attending medical school. After four years of undergrad, there is literally 11 more years of work to get to the end of training, which is usually in other cities and that doesn't include the work at the career. These kids start school thinking they have time and quickly realize how little they really have. The good news is that the Honors College is doing this every year so while the students may move on, more will take their place.
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hilaritee
any good community service project should be inspired by the residents or community members colsest to the area of interest. i would urge these students and their professor to contact residents of the east side, perhaps through community centers or churches.
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GDF81
They may need assault rifles to do this safely..
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hilaritee
GDF81: if i were you i would avoid mentioning assualt rifles in front of others, you might tempt them...
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pegger
I think their advisors need to teach them how to write grants post haste. They are really easy to make. But, after all the input is absorbed and a plan af action (including costs) devised, they would be ready. I suggest the Wendt Foundation as they could use some positive PR right about now. And most certainly there are professors from related fields who could be asked for their input on a project and likely places to seek grants. There is, after all, a great deal of politcs involved at every level. Very savy of them to inquire here!
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Bflointhedust
Dear Rain Man et al,
Call United Rentals in Williamsville for some dump trucks, bulldozers, hydraulic breakers, backhoes, and loaders. 716-565-1330 I'm sure they can help out.
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crisa
HASHMA: I just found your reply.
I can see you 15 years from now being Dr. Hashma!
Its interesting that occasionally a world renounded scholar, scientist, researcher, doctor, etc., can be spending a large chunk of a deep thinking lifetime searching for an answer to something of earth moving importance but the solution remains illusive.
Then, along comes a young person fresh out of graduate school and VOILA, that fresh, open-minded relatively young person deduces the solution!
I'm not suggesting that such a fresh thinker will solve Buffalo's problems though. The solutions are apparent and plenty. Its just that this is Buffalo, the Eternal Delemma City, after all.
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