ROTORACT CLUB MEMBERS HEAD TO TIJUANA TO HELP LESS FORTUNATE
Pepperdine’s ROTARACT Club is organizing a trip this weekend to Tijuana with boxes of new clothes for children who live in the Dorcas House, an orphanage for children whose parents are in jail.
The house houses about 60 children between the ages of five and 16. Dr. Connie James, associate professor of management, will take 16 Pepperdine students and clothes donated by Starfish, a local children’s store, which took thousands of dollars worth of clothes directly from from the distributor and donated them to the orphanage.
“We’re happy to donate as much as we can to such a worthy charity,” said Neisha Walker, general manager for Starfish.
Junior Alle Fister, a ROTARACT Club member and an employee at Starfish, said the store’s generosity impressed her.
“Their generosity is overwhelming,” she said. “It means so much to our ROTARACT group and it will mean a lot to the children of Dorcas House.”
Besides donating the clothes, Pepperdine students will spend the night with the children, watch movies with them and take them rollarblading.
The ROTARACT Club is a college division of the Rotary Club in Malibu. Every other week it sponsors a peanut butter and jelly feeding for the homeless, although that practice is in jeopardy with the new Santa Monica ordinance prohibiting feeding of the homeless.
The also have biweekly meetings with various speakers from the area, and will take another trip to Mexico next semester.
All students may join the ROTARACT Club. Dues are $15 for the year. Those interested should contact Dr. Connie James at ext. 7371.
JAMES Q. WILSON TO SPEAK AT REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
James Q. Wilson, the Ronald Reagan professor at the School of Public Policy, will speak at the former president’s presidential library on Tuesday.
Wilson’s speech will focus on separation of church and state in Western countries and its absence Islamic nations besides Turkey.
Wilson taught political science at Harvard University between 1961 and 1987. He also taught at UCLA from 1985 to 1997.
Wilson has written fifteen books, with the most recent being “The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families.” He also has written a number of textbooks on American Government, which are used by some Pepperdine classes.
FORMER PEPPERDINE STUDENT, LISA WAHLA, INJURED IN CAR CRASH
While driving on Bouquet Canyon Road in Saugus, former editor-in-chief of the Graphic, Lisa Wahla was critically injured.
Her rented yellow 2002 Mazda Protege veered onto the opposite side of the road and struck an oncoming car, according the L.A. Daily News.
Both Wahla and the man she struck, Ted Young, were removed from their cars by the Jaws of Life.
Wahla currently works as a government reporter for the Antelope Valley Press after graduating in 2000 from Pepperdine.
Wahla won numerous awards while serving on the Graphic. She won the “Best Rookie Writer” award for 1997-98. She also earned the “Best All-Around Writer” for for 1998-99 and the “Best All-Around Journalist” for 1999-2000.
Wahla remains in the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital.
SANDBAR CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING
Students who wish to check their e-mail or their old-fashioned mailboxes in the Sandbar student lounge area will not be able to between Friday, Nov. 29 and Dec. 1.
Maintenance will re-coat the floor during this time, and will reopen the facility at 6 a.m. Dec. 1.
November 14, 2002