In the 2007-2008 school year at Cal Poly, an estimated 9,500 students performed 223,525 hours of volunteer work in and around San Luis Obispo.
Tag: volunteer
Posted inOpinion
Spruce up your winter break by volunteering
I realize most of us are penny-pinching, struggling college students surviving off dollar store pasta and Costco pizza, so I’m not asking that you empty your bank account into the nearest Salvation Army collection tin. Instead, I urge you to sign up to volunteer.
Posted inArts
See the Need Week helps homeless in SLO County
Student Community Services’ (SCS) annual See the Need Week drew attention to the very serious hunger and homelessness issues worldwide and in San Luis Obispo.
Posted inArts
More than 500 volunteer at Make A Difference Day
More than 500 Cal Poly students and county residents sported working gloves, power drills and dirt-covered sweats to volunteer their time during various Make A Difference Day events Saturday.
Posted inNews
Cal Poly cares for cache of campus cats
The Cal Poly Cat Program (CPCP) was started in 1992. Almost 1,000 cats have gone through the program and over 700 have been adopted out.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Capitalists: society’s true humanitarians
Over the course of history, society has generally suffered only a minority of the population to act as professional humanitarians. After all, the career humanitarian is a unique breed. The humanitarian seeks alms for the poor and must, in turn, seek alms for himself to continue his alms-seeking vocation.