‘Marquette Ending Hunger’ Group Schedules Events, Thinking About SNAP Benefits, and a Welcome to NMU’s New President

– INFORMED BREVITY –

‘Marquette Ending Hunger’ Group Schedules Two Events

This student-based organization is working to get the community involved in a canathon to support the hungry in the area. On November 7th at 4pm they will gather in Harlow Park in Marquette.

Everyone will be placed in pairs and get assigned one group of 31 houses to knock on the doors and explain who they are and ask them to commit to leaving a box of donated food outside for them to come back to the neighborhood to collect the donated food on November 9th. Cash donations are also accepted.

They hope to hit 2,000 houses on the 7th of November. There are several NMU student groups and Marquette folks supporting this important cause.

This year is especially important due to the federal government only funding SNAP benefits at 50% at this time–could change in coming weeks.  Approximately 1.4 million citizens in Michigan get SNAP benefits and many, many of those people live in rural areas like the Upper Peninsula.

Thinking About Snap and Helping Citizens with Hunger

To be eligible for SNAP benefits one must be below 130% below the federal poverty level. That means that to be eligible a family of four cannot have an income over approximately $42,000.

Welcome to NMU’s New President

Dr. Chris Olson will be the 19th NMU President. We all welcome him to our community. The search is over. The time to debate who finally got the job is over.

It is time to welcome our new President to the NMU community and to the Marquette community. Let’s all step up and not only welcome him and his family to our Upper Peninsula but do what we can to support him.

There are wonderful aspects to being a university president and some of those are the students, staff and faculty that you get to work with and the alumni and community members that you meet as a university president. There are also some very difficult issues and problems that a president will face and certainly Dr. Olson will have to deal with it as the leader of NMU.

Every university president often feels like the goalie on a dart board team where you spend some of your time batting away darts. So let’s all step up and work with him to make the darts minimal and help him lead us into a new era in higher education.

Quotes That Make Us Go Hmmm

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convicted Nazi or the convinced Communist, but the person for whom the distinction between true and false no longer exists.” Hannah Arendt.

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury.

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