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SFJ to hold fundraiser for New Orleans trip
CLUB SEEKS FUNDING AFTER BEING REJECTED BY STUDENT SENATE
Olga Ardulov
Issue date: 11/27/06 Section: News
De Anza College's Students for Justice club is hosting a fundraiser Tuesday to raise money for their trip to New Orleans to help with Common Ground, a post-Hurricane Katrina relief program.
The fundraiser is meant to help raise $4000 to help fund ten De Anza students for a weeklong cleanup trip to the lower ninth ward.
The club sent three students and a faculty member, Rob Mulinar, to New Orleans over the summer for a week to help with hurricane relief.
The approximate cost of going to New Orleans with Common Ground is $500 each person.
"The fundraiser was originally supposed to make up the difference for what DASB [Senate] couldn't offer," said SFJ representative Sharam Hassan.
The De Anza Student Body Senate couldn't fund any part of the trip due to a stipulation stating no club on campus can be given money for travel expenses. "All of us support the trip," said Tony Suen, De Anza Associated Student Body President."We have to follow the code set last spring." "[It's] absurd to not fund this because this isn't something we're doing for ourselves. This is for a bigger cause," Sharam
said.
Currently Students for Justice is focusing on their fundraiser, which will be a presentation of the prior trip to New Orleans and a time for donations. If they don't raise enough money, the members signed up to go will have to pay more out of their own pocket.
The fundraiser will be held in the Writing and Reading Center (ATC 309) from 5:30 - 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
The fundraiser is meant to help raise $4000 to help fund ten De Anza students for a weeklong cleanup trip to the lower ninth ward.
The club sent three students and a faculty member, Rob Mulinar, to New Orleans over the summer for a week to help with hurricane relief.
The approximate cost of going to New Orleans with Common Ground is $500 each person.
"The fundraiser was originally supposed to make up the difference for what DASB [Senate] couldn't offer," said SFJ representative Sharam Hassan.
The De Anza Student Body Senate couldn't fund any part of the trip due to a stipulation stating no club on campus can be given money for travel expenses. "All of us support the trip," said Tony Suen, De Anza Associated Student Body President."We have to follow the code set last spring." "[It's] absurd to not fund this because this isn't something we're doing for ourselves. This is for a bigger cause," Sharam
said.
Currently Students for Justice is focusing on their fundraiser, which will be a presentation of the prior trip to New Orleans and a time for donations. If they don't raise enough money, the members signed up to go will have to pay more out of their own pocket.
The fundraiser will be held in the Writing and Reading Center (ATC 309) from 5:30 - 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
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