Blog Entry 2

1.The service learning that I am doing is with Wash Pirg student debt. This is an organization with many different things that they focus on. What they do is basically try to help students have an easier and more less stressful time while going to college. I am working with the student debt part of the organization. There are many other parts to washpirg such as cutting textbook prices and other things.
2.The position that I am working is working with the media. I am assigned to contact the news, state senators, and other people to come to our forum that wash pirg is holding at the end of the quarter. At the forum, the leader of the group Wash Pirg that I am working with along with her co-workers are going to inform the people in attendence about the serious debt problem and the high student loan interest rates that exist. The task of contacting all of these people is pretty difficult to do because I have to go and find the contact information for each senator and all of the other people that I have to contact. It can get pretty frustrating because it is difficult to find some of the senator's contact information. Also, I am going to be phone banking to get volunteers to come to the annual year book photo shoot. The purpose of this is to get students with debt and have their picture taken along with how much debt in loans and etc. that they have. After all of the pictures are taken and the year book is complete, we are going to send it to state senator reichert, who is the person that supports cutting student loan interest rates.
3.My student service learning is connected to Balibar by helping to become a unified nation. I may play a minor role in cutting student loan interest rates, but if I am successfull in bringing some senators and media attention to the forum that we are going to hold at the end of the quarter, I have shared knowledge with people and informed them about a problem that they were unaware of. Also if we are successful in persuading the senators in supporting the cuts in student loan interest rates, I will have been a part of helping to put everybody in an equal plane and create what Balibar claims is a "nation."