Recognizing Piedmont's generosity
Navigator Staff Editorial
by Joy Ugi
Issue date: 2/8/10 Section: Opinion
Look at, Haiti, Locks of Love, planting trees, raising money for families during Christmas.
Have you noticed what a giving school Piedmont is? The staff of the Navigator has and we're impressed.
In fact, the campus' most recent move to help Haiti has been outrageous.
Immediately after the disaster, student affairs and religious life started organizing a fund raising event.
What happened was a combination of the efforts of Chartwells, faculty, staff and students with an impromptu service and a Haitian food day at the caf. Everyone donated money that Chartwells used to buy food to send south.
Also, members of residence life made coin cans for the lobbies of the dorms where students could drop loose change that will go to Haiti.
Piedmont is also working with national charities On Feb. 1, there was a Locks of Love get together.
The idea behind this organization is that you cut off your hair. They then take those clippings and turn them into wigs for cancer patients.
On a more local level, during the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, students and faculty volunteered their time to plant trees in the wetlands and surrounding areas.
Tramping in mud and doing physical labor isn't exactly the most enjoyable way to spend a three-day weekend.
But these Piedmontians put service before pleasure.
And let's not forget that at Christmas time, religious life and student affairs put together a program in an effort to help local families.
Everyone was encouraged to bring unwanted clothes items to boxes on campus; the final collection numbers were large, including some generous monetary donations.
All in all, Piedmont has shown that it's a generous campus that has a passion for helping others.
Have you noticed what a giving school Piedmont is? The staff of the Navigator has and we're impressed.
In fact, the campus' most recent move to help Haiti has been outrageous.
Immediately after the disaster, student affairs and religious life started organizing a fund raising event.
What happened was a combination of the efforts of Chartwells, faculty, staff and students with an impromptu service and a Haitian food day at the caf. Everyone donated money that Chartwells used to buy food to send south.
Also, members of residence life made coin cans for the lobbies of the dorms where students could drop loose change that will go to Haiti.
Piedmont is also working with national charities On Feb. 1, there was a Locks of Love get together.
The idea behind this organization is that you cut off your hair. They then take those clippings and turn them into wigs for cancer patients.
On a more local level, during the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, students and faculty volunteered their time to plant trees in the wetlands and surrounding areas.
Tramping in mud and doing physical labor isn't exactly the most enjoyable way to spend a three-day weekend.
But these Piedmontians put service before pleasure.
And let's not forget that at Christmas time, religious life and student affairs put together a program in an effort to help local families.
Everyone was encouraged to bring unwanted clothes items to boxes on campus; the final collection numbers were large, including some generous monetary donations.
All in all, Piedmont has shown that it's a generous campus that has a passion for helping others.
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