1994_03 Insight March 1994

              Volunteer
Continued from Page 1
As a volunteer in the CSUF tutoring
program aimed at South East Asian
high school and elementary school students, Yang said he is trying to help
others go to college.
"When I first came to the United
States, I had no one to help me," said
Yang, who immigrated from Laos after
spending his early childhood in refugee camps.
"I had to struggle to make it to
college," Yang said. "I want to help
other South East Asian students because 1 don t want mem io go inrougn
what I went through."
Todd McKittrick, a21-year-old construction management major, is helping to put a roof over peoples' heads as
a Habitat for Humanity volunteer.
McKittrick labored more than 800
hewrs fwitehousmg organization. Now
a 60-ycar-old widow now has a cream
colored one-bedroom house with green
trim to call her own.
"We built thc whole house from the
foundation to thc roof," McKittrick
said of thc 971-square-foot house in
Clovis.
Volunteer Michele Potter must don
protective clothing akin to a surgeon's
before feeding infants who have respiratory problems at Valley Childrens
Hospital.
The lack of physical contact doesn' i
diminish her compassion.
"They don't get a lot of contact one
on one," said the 20-year-old health
science major. "I could just pick them
up and hold them."
ChrisFiorentino.coordinatorforthc
Students for Community Service Program, said unpaid volunteer work has
many rewards.
"Il'snodifferm than anyoiher job."
Fiorentino said "The rewards are the
pay."
McKittrick said after nearly a year
of pounding nails and cutting planks,
it's satisfying to see the fruits of his
labor.
"It's nice to drive down the street
and see that I've helped one person
out," McKittrick said, referring to the
bouse nearSunnyside Avenue and Fifth
Street
Helping children with their homework at the Boy and Girls Club gives
"We feel blessed
to have them.
They're like my
right-hand men."
— Lorri Lewis,
manager of the
Ronald McDonald
House
volunteer DanielGarciaascnseof pride.
"If I see that I can hclpakid.it makes
me feel good," said Garcia, an 18-ycar-
old undeclared major.
The intangible rewards for Megan
Simpson, a Ronald McDonald House
volunteer,comes from helping those in
difficult situations.
"I think it's very rewarding to know
that you're helping another person,"
said Simpson, a 20-year-old marketing
major.
'Toknow that you can reach out and
give something positive during a time
that seems hopeless.'' Simpson said.
"It's something I really believe in."
Many non-profit organizations say
they owe their very existence to volunteers.
"Wecan'texist without them," said
Karen Piervallo, community relations
director of the Marjorie Mason Center.
"Volunteers make up a lot of work
for non-profits," Piervallo said. "We
can't hire because we can't afford to
pay them. You need them to get things
done from the bottom to the top."
"We feel blessed to have them,"
said Lori Lewis, manager of thc Ronald McDonald House, of her four
CSUF volunteers. "They're like my
right-hand men.
Volunteering is a, "chance to find
'real-world' work experience,"
Fiorentino said. "Similar to what coops and internships do."
Marjorie Mason Transitional Living
Center, a shelter for homeless and
abused women, is helping io prepare
hcr foracarccrasanelcmcniary school
teacher.
Supervising children in the center's
Discovery Playroom, Franscn said she
is becoming more aware of subde clues
loachild'sabusivc home environment
by listening to Ihcir comments.
Franscn, a 21 -year-old liberal studies major, said a child once told her,
"Wc can't go home because our daddy
is mean."
McKittrick said building the Habi-
lat for Humanity house has helped
prepare him for work in the construction business after his May graduation.
Free time is one of thc few prcrcqui -
sites for volunteer work.
Garcia volunteers every Tuesday
and Thursday, "when I only have one
class."
"It's mainly my own time," said
Simpson,.who volunteers three hours
a week.
"We have people who come oul for
a couple of hours and end up staying
for eight," said McKittrick. "They always make time."
Farrakhan
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Jackie Little, a freshman engineering major and member of the Jewish
student group Hillcl, sees Farrakhan as
an "anti-Semitic jerk."
"I think there are going to be some
problems when he comes," she said.
"He strikes out to the Jews to find
something wrong. A few months ago,
I would have thought of him as a leader,
but now I think he's an overrational
hatemonger."
Malik Simba, professor of ethnic
studies, says Farrakhan uses odd logic
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"His anti-Semitism is hard to understand," hc said.
"Thc Black-Jewish relationship
shows Jewish fear of the real African-
American views of abstinence, resistance to drugs and other positive val-
Simba, who has seen Farrakhan
speak a number of times, believes the
relationship between Jews and African-Americans is an odd one.
"African-Americans have a dual
identity. They are racially Africans,
but ethnic Americans. Jews have it
loo. They practice Judaism but they
are Americans," said Simba.
"Jews have a choice between their
identity and their religion,'' he said
"The dualism between being White
and Jewish poses a problem in
Farrakhan's logic."
" You cannot put religion and combine it with their race," he said. "That's
the complexity in Farrakhan's logic,"
Simba said.
"The Jews have been Anglicized;
they arc not white, and Farrakhan is
wrong. That's the complexity."
However, Simba said he believed
that most African-Americans are not
concerned with anti-Semitism.
"Most African-Americans blot out
this anti-Semitism," hc said.
tjrang
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Publications Commission and a professor of journalism, said the committee was upset over the reaction of the
article.
'To the police, it's a crime problem.
To Thc Daily Collegian, it's a public
To thc Southeast Asians, it's an uncomplimentary story about juvenile
crime invloving members of their culture," said Flynn.
"Diversity is more than cultural or
racial, it's the diversity of roles and
expectations of various interests," said
Flynn.
After reading thc article Flynn said
hc docs not feel it was aimed at CSUF
students ism a voiinffer. off camous
group. Hc also said other than a lack ot
sources and attributions, the writer
means well.
On the other hand, he said we arc
"dealing wilh journalism students who
don't have the experience and sensitivity or time lo turn in truly professional
work,and we would hope lhat the South-
cast Asian community would realize
this."
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