OU Organiztions

Sooners enjoy helping people.

Students at the University of Oklahoma create organizations that help each other and people in different communities.

“I think it’s wonderful that students have made it a priority to help others, it just goes to show how amazing our school truly is,” OU student Alexandria Long said.

There are several active organizations at OU that want to make a difference.

This mission of the Campus Cursive organization is to unify students and faculty at OU by composing handwritten love letters to people in need.

“We are going to write letters to the people in Colorado that lost their homes in the flood last month,” president of Campus Cursive Madison Hake said. “We want to give them words of encouragement in this difficult time.”

Sooners Helping Sooners is a new organization that raises money for people in emergency financial situations at the University, according to the SHS website.

“The hope of SHS is to drive this campaign of compassion so that every Sooner has an opportunity to succeed at OU, despite extenuating circumstances,” Chairman Beth Huggins said.

Youth Empowering Society wants to create opportunities for those wishing to give back to their community, and to make society a better place with more enthusiastic, active individuals, according to the OU student organizations website.

Friends and Friends is an organization promoting social change based on Quaker principles of peace, equality, simplicity, stewardship and truth, according to the OU student life website.

Members of Friends of Friends are a part of the community, and they believe that people a part of a community must take care of one another in order for a community to flourish and remain enjoyable community, according to members of Friends and Friends.

            

          Members in each of these organizations have gone through difficult situations in life, and would like to help others cope with similar situations.

            

          Hake was struggling with depression during her early semesters at OU, and when she was able to overcome this obstacle, she learned the healing power of words.

            

         She was inspired to start Campus Cursive because she wanted to help people they way she was helped by using the strength of words.

            

         “For me personally I know that life happens, and sometimes it happens when you least expect it, that’s why I’m so excited about Sooners Helping Sooners,” testimonial speaker for SHS Emma Lindgren said.

            

          Lindgren was struggling financially because of outstanding medical bills, but SHS helped her on her feet, and she was finally able to focus on school.

           

          SHS uses 100 percent of its donations to help the students of OU, according to the SHS website.

         Students at OU believe in doing positive things to make a difference.