Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 11:41:48 -0500

From: Lloyd Jacobson <cooltxn@earthlink.net>

14th ANNUAL COOL NATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE

March 12-15th, 1998

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC

For the last 14 years the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) has sponsored the annual COOL National Conference on Student Community Service. The COOL Conference is the meeting place for college students dedicated to service and community change. COOL has been the incubator for countless young leaders and youth organizations both on campus and off. As the college service movement has grown, so has COOL.

We expect over 2,000 students at the 1998 Conference! Titled "United We Serve", the 1998 COOL Conference is committed to promoting service as a catalyst to foster community change. In this increasingly segregated and stratified society, service is a unifying agent. Service has the power to break down stereotypes and encourage meaningful relationships between people of disparate backgrounds and cultures.

The COOL Conference is designed as a forum for students of different political affiliations, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, physical abilities, faiths and socio-economic classes. At the COOL Conference, students of all varieties are joined by their commitment to make a difference. Though their methods, means, and timing will differ, these students are united in their belief that the individual can change the world.

The 1998 COOL Conference will be hosted by the University of South Carolina in Columbia SC. Experience the hospitality of the South and join us along with students, faculty, and staff from across the country for three and one half intense days of sharing experiences, asking tough questions, and exploring common solutions.

1998 CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKER COOL is very excited to present Julian Bond as the 1998 Keynote Speaker. Since his college days, Julian Bond has been an active participant in the movements for civil rights, economic justice, and peace, and an aggressive spokesman for the disinherited. He was one of several hundred students from across the South who helped to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). A leader of the civil rights movement, Julian Bond has been on the cutting edge of social change since he was a college student leading sit-in demonstrations in Atlanta in 1960.

LITERACY PRE-CONFERENCE (hosted by SCALE) The Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education (SCALE) Pre-conference offers you networking opportunities and workshops on such topics as program evaluation, and leadership training, fundraising, and media relations to help you take your campus-based literacy program to the next level. SCALE's Literacy Track throughout the COOL Conference will offer you additional workshops on how to start your campus-based literacy program, how to recruit and retain tutors, planning, advocacy, awareness raising, special events, visibility/PR and program management.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:

• Opportunities Fair - Meet and network with representatives of over 70 regional or national organizations involved in service.
• * Campus Administrators Gathering - A special opportunity for faculty/staff to gather and discuss their issues as advisors to service programs.
• * "Family Name" - Special screening of this award winning film about a white Southerns discovery of his black relatives.
• * Oxfam Hunger Banquet - Participate in this powerful experiential event that you can bring to your own campus * Into the Streets - Opportunity to work side by side with other conference attendees in a service experience in our host city, Columbia South Carolina.
• * Swap Shop & Idea Boards - Your opportunity to share your campuses service t-shirts, posters, etc. with others while helping COOL fund conference scholarships.
• * Idea Boards - Poster session where you can highlight the accomplishments of your program and services.

For more information on the conference including details on:

* Conference Registration Information

* Affordable Hotels & Free Housing Options

* How to Submit a Workshop Proposal, and

* Much, much more

See our web site at: http://www.COOL2SERVE.org/conference.html

or call our conference office at: (803)777-9596

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* It's COOL to Serve! *

* C.O.O.L. - Campus Outreach Opportunity League *

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* Founded in 1984, COOL is a national non-profit *

* organization working to encourage, support and expand *

* campus-based community service efforts. *

* COOL's mission is to educate and empower students *

* to strengthen our nation through service. *

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* For more information contact us at: *

* 1511 K Street, NW, Suite 307 *

* Washington, DC 20005 *

* (202)637-7004 phone *

* (202)637-7021 fax *

* E-Mail: homeoffice@COOL2SERVE.org *

* Web Site: http://www.COOL2SERVE.org *

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