by Jadrienne Myhre | Nov 16, 2010 | News Slider
This year, PKS raised money to film a documentary about the Ulpan Valley that will bring awareness to the Guatamalan government. PKS has worked for the World Vision 30 Famine during cause week for the past few years. But this year, Co-Chairs of cause week Caroline Cook, junior history and law, justice and society major, and Lynsey Myers wanted to do something different. They found out about the documentary the first week of school this semester, and decided to devote the earnings of the week toward bettering the situation in Ulpan Valley by promoting the documentary. As with most projects put together by Lipscomb’s students, this project involves students from all different studies. “The entire project is holistic,” Cook said. “Communication students are making the documentary, an English student is doing articles for the website and several pre-med students have gone [to the Valley] on a spring break mission trip.” Cook is confident with the results of cause week. She and her fellow PKS members have put in long hours and frequently been discouraged, but she feels that their effort has been worth it. Through cause week, PKS raised over $1,400 toward promoting the documentary for Ulpan...
by Emily Snell | Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Pi Kappa Sigma is raising money this week to help two Lipscomb students produce a social justice documentary. The club’s efforts are part of Cause Week, which will help fund the documentary being produced by Ryan Malone and Allison Woods, both multimedia production majors. The film tells the story of a social justice crisis in the Ulpan Valley of Guatemala. “I’m doing this documentary about the lives of the Q’eqchi’ people, especially relating to the struggle for their land,” Malone said. “The land that they live on is a big part of their culture. It’s what they live off every day.” At 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, Malone will be in Shamblin Theater with Caroline Cook, co-chair of Cause Week, to explain more about the situation and the documentary. Students who attend can receive one chapel credit and will have an opportunity to ask questions about the documentary and to pray for the people of the Ulpan Valley. “Because of the documentary, we are telling the story of the Q’eqchi people that they can’t tell themselves,” said Cook, a junior law, justice and society major from Decatur, Ala. Woods, a senior, explained that the problems in Guatemala can be traced back nearly two centuries. In the 1800s, the Guatemalan government took the land from the people of the Ulpan Valley. Following the distribution of the land to various countries, the local government passed an anti-vagrancy law that required anyone living on the land to work for the landowner. However, according to Woods, the workers only receive around $2 per day. “They are basically in a situation of legalized slavery,” Woods said....
