Dome Room houses thoughts on homelessness
By Ryann Collins
Cavalier Daily Associate Editor
If you think homelessness doesn't affect you, think again. At least that's the idea fourth-year College student Jessica Smith hopes to portray a symposium today titled "The Place of Homelessness in Our Communities."
"The message we want to give is that homelessness is not one person's story. It's the story of the whole community and it has its own infrastructure," said Smith, Madison House program director for Cavs Care.
The symposium will feature panelists presenting a myriad of perspectives on homelessness, from how health care initiatives affect the problem to stories of individuals who have combated against it.
"Lorrie Wollschlagers will talk about her experience. She is a member of the community who went through the Salvation Army for transitional housing when she and her family moved here from Albany, N.Y.," Smith said.
Folk singer John McCutcheon will talk about his experience writing songs about homelessness and hunger, and two University professors who are representatives of the Institute for Practical Ethics, James Childress and Ruth Gaare, will talk about the implications the U.S. healthcare system has on homelessness.
Smith decided to organize the symposium to "revive awareness about homelessness with University students," she said. The last Cavs Care-sponsored forum of this sort took place two years ago under Cavs Care founder Brad Barnett.
Smith is encouraging students to bring a canned good along with them to the symposium, which will go to the Thomas Jefferson food bank.
The symposium is open to all students and will be held in the Rotunda Dome Room today from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
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