Buffalo students to commemorate Chornobyl's 10th (01/07/96)

Buffalo students to commemorate Chornobyl's 10th

BUFFALO N.Y. - Members of the Ukrainian Students Association at the State University at Buffalo gathered for a planning meeting at the Campus Center on December 3, 1995, to discuss plans for commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear accident this spring. The club met with the director of development for the Children of Chornobyl Foundation (CCF), Alex Kuzma, to explore various possibilities for raising awareness of the continuing consequences of the Chornobyl disaster and for raising funds to aid medical relief efforts in Ukraine.

Various proposals under consideration include a public forum and a showing of educational films about Chornobyl, such as the highly acclaimed documentaries "Raspad" and "Living Under the Cloud" by Teresa Metcalf. The-executive committee of the USA is also investigating the possibility of organizing promotional programs with local celebrities, including members of the Buffalo Sabres hockey team.

Last year, the USA was honored as the International Student Club of the Year for its outstanding work in staging a Ukrainian Week program that featured a photo exhibit on the Chornobyl aftermath displays of folk art, T-shirt sales and lectures by historian Peter Potichnyj Similar fund-raising and consciousness raising programs surrounding the 10th anniversary of Chornobyl are currently under way at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the Harriman Institute at Columbia and Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

For more information on the programs being developed at the University of Buffalo, interested students and community members are urged to contact the association's co-chairpersons, Ulana Moroz or Olenka Bodnarskyj, (716) 636-1300. For more information on how to organize similar Chomobyl programs on other college campuses, students are urged to contact Tania Sawa at the CCF, (201 ) 376-5140.

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