Community Service By: Cole Wildes

What is Community Service? Community service is an act by a person that benefits the local community. People become involved in community service for many reasons: for some, serving community is an altruistic act, for others it is a punishment.

What is Community Service? Cont. Community service therefore refers to projects that members of certain youth organizations, such as the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, Key Club International, JROTC's and some high school students perform. Some people may view Community Service as a hassle but others may view it as a good thing to do. It is also an alternative sentencing technique in a justice system. And at times groups of people will commit to perform service to the community as part of the gift economy(Wiki).

What are the Benefits? Community service provides a variety of unique benefits to the students, the community and to the organizations where students volunteer. It is very common that volunteers get much more out of their service experience than they expect. Also, the community gains resources and services that would otherwise be unavailable.

What are the Benefits? Cont. Also community service provides the critical missing link for many students, an opportunity to apply academic learning to real human needs and to make the knowledge gained usable in one's thinking beyond the situation in which the learning occurred(CSU). Just like the saying, “Give a little. You'll get back so much more."

Home Run Derby Home run derby was KA’s attempt to some what get our fraternity out of debt. The guidelines were that anyone could pay fifty dollars to hit 20 baseballs and try to hit as many home runs as possible.

Home Run Derby The winners received small cash prizes. We raised a few thousand dollars, but not enough to get us completely out of debt.

USTA Tennis Tournament The Georgia/ Florida USTA tennis tournament was held at VSU. I helped out by signing people in, setting up, and selling items at the concession stand.

USTA Tennis Tournament VSU’s head tennis coach took on this job and ran it as smooth as possible, considering that a majority of the roads were flooded.

Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society's signature event that brings more than 3.5 million people from 4,900 communities across the country together each year to celebrate the lives of those who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against a disease that takes too much

Relay for Life Phi Mu & KA The Phi Mu sorority and the Kappa Alpha Order teamed up in the fight against cancer. Our theme was poker night, which was any participant could play poker with a two dollar buy in. We gave away no cash prizes, but gift cards donated from local businesses.

Relay for Life Phi Mu & KA Cont. Phi Mu and KA raised $2000 for this cause. The walk it self lasted from 7pm to 7am.