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Volunteer fair open to campus

The Unclassified Senate Professional Development Committee will sponsor a volunteer fair – open to the entire campus community – highlighting campus and community organizations and opportunities that need volunteer time and effort. The fair will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 18 at the Baehr Audio-Reader Center/ Broadcasting Hall, 1120 W. 11th St.

Representatives from campus organizations that use volunteers – such as Audio-Reader and Kansas Public Radio – and the Roger Hill Volunteer Center, a clearinghouse that matches people with community volunteer opportunities, will have information on how to get involved and make the campus and community a better place.

Campus groups that would like to recruit volunteers should contact Diana Frederick at dianafr@ku.edu about participating in the event.

Groups may send a representative or literature to be distributed.

"This is a great way for people on campus to find out how they can help," said John Augusto, chairman of the Unclassified Senate's Professional Development Committee. "There are great campus and city programs that need people, so volunteer opportunities will be plentiful.

"We'd also need to hear from other campus groups who would like have volunteers for their programs. We'd want them to exhibit during the volunteer fair."

The volunteer fair takes place during National Volunteer Week, April 15-21. In addition to recruiting new volunteers, the fair will highlight the contributions of current KU staffers who volunteer their time at campus and civic organizations.

KU Unclassified Senators Phil Wilke and Diana Frederick, co-organizers of the event, said the volunteer fair will provide something for everyone.

"We have two musical acts that will be playing that afternoon," Wilke said. "In the Audio-Reader Sensory Garden, we'll have an acoustic folk-bluegrass duo playing. We hope people will also bring their lunch, sit in the garden, listen to the music and then sign up to volunteer. In the KPR performance studio, a chamber music duo will perform."

"We also will be serving cookies and beverages, Frederick said. "Music, food and friends — what could be better?"

The volunteer fair will be held rain or shine. In the event of rain, the gazebo music will be moved indoors.

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The Bridwell Botany Research Laboratory on west campus, built in 1965, was funded by a gift from Texas cattle breeder Joseph S. Bridwell, who was interested in research into developing better strains of grasses and legumes for cattle. The building houses the Ronald L. McGregor Herbarium, named in honor of the longtime director who oversaw a vast expansion of KU's plant collections. In addition to more than 350,000 pressed specimens and a slide collection, the building houses a botanical library.