Students don't need charity, they provide it
Andrew Thomason
Issue date: 3/28/07 Section: News
All around Macomb, one can find examples of students giving up their time for the good of the community. Recently, members of Western's soccer club volunteered their time to the YMCA in order to teach a soccer clinic to the young children.
Students in Higgins Hall are currently organizing an event called "Dance for Dreams." DFD will raise money by selling tickets to its freestyle dance event. All proceeds will be given to Dream Factory, an organization that grants terminally ill children their wishes.
"We wanted to do something fun and exciting that lots of people would participate in. Luckily, though the majority of the work rests on us, we are getting sponsorship money and donations for prizes and other things from all around campus and possibly off-campus as well," said Karen Tableriou, sophomore English and Education major as well as an organizer for DFD.
Another example of student good will is Erin McNamee, junior social work major, who recently participated in Oprah Winfrey's "Pay it Forward" challenge; McNamee received $1,000 from Oprah to give away. In the end, McNamee raised an additional $1,000 and gave the money to an Iraq veteran, Todd Watts, to help treat his daughter's cancer.
"Coming back and seeing how that family is living and barely getting by, and here I am a college student getting an education and living nicely and comfortably, and then seeing this family live like this, especially someone who served for our country - it was an awesome experience," McNamee said in 'McNamee, community pay it forward' from the Nov. 11 issue of the WC.
Students in Higgins Hall are currently organizing an event called "Dance for Dreams." DFD will raise money by selling tickets to its freestyle dance event. All proceeds will be given to Dream Factory, an organization that grants terminally ill children their wishes.
"We wanted to do something fun and exciting that lots of people would participate in. Luckily, though the majority of the work rests on us, we are getting sponsorship money and donations for prizes and other things from all around campus and possibly off-campus as well," said Karen Tableriou, sophomore English and Education major as well as an organizer for DFD.
Another example of student good will is Erin McNamee, junior social work major, who recently participated in Oprah Winfrey's "Pay it Forward" challenge; McNamee received $1,000 from Oprah to give away. In the end, McNamee raised an additional $1,000 and gave the money to an Iraq veteran, Todd Watts, to help treat his daughter's cancer.
"Coming back and seeing how that family is living and barely getting by, and here I am a college student getting an education and living nicely and comfortably, and then seeing this family live like this, especially someone who served for our country - it was an awesome experience," McNamee said in 'McNamee, community pay it forward' from the Nov. 11 issue of the WC.
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