Editor,
I would like to address the issue brought up by Ann Kostecki's letter printed in Tuesday's Daily Lobo. I believe there has been some miscommunication about what our organization, the Student Action Network, is about, stemming from the article in the Daily Lobo on April 5. While Caleb Fort is a great writer and has written many fine articles, he missed the target on that article. We do not want to make it mandatory for every student to complete community service. We hope that it would be an option in classes. So, if you are taking an English 101 class, and you have to write about homelessness, instead of writing about what you read in a book, you would write about an experience you had in a soup kitchen. This
experience would be an assignment in a class similar to the Research Service Learning Program. That is what we want to see at the University: community service and course-work going hand in hand.
This is one of many things we would like to see happen at UNM, none of which would take more time away from the students, but instead would switch the time that they already spend on school to things that give to them and to the community. If you would like to know more or have some ideas, we are meeting in the Johnson Gym Recreational Services meeting room at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Anyone is welcome. Part of the Service Action Network's mission is to serve as a network to connect people and to create ideas.
Doug Rocks-Macqueen
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