Giving back for the holidays

Clubs come together to help collect canned food to help feed students and families

SAMANTHA BRAVO Editor-in-Chief @sammybravo93

All Pierce clubs have a unique purpose on campus. These few combine their efforts to help struggling students in need.

The Communication Association hosted a canned food drive on the Mall on Tuesday, Nov. 2. They collaborated with Students Against Student Hunger (St.A.S.H) and donations were given to the food pantry.

Besides canned food and essentials, they were also collecting monetary donations.

Communication Association advisor and assistant professor Robert Loy organized this event for his students to interact with other club members. Loy said this was a collaboration between him and communications instructor Yeprem Davoodian.

“What we do is try to encourage our students to get involved and form a small group and develop and organize an event,” Loy said.

Loy said his students have been working on this assignment all semester, creating posters and figuring out what they want to do.

“My group is realizing that there are a lot of loopholes and logistics when it comes to developing an event. Organizing and communicating with other people, especially, when you have a small group and many people.”

Loy said he wanted the Communication Association to collaborate with another group on campus. That’s when he said they chose to work with St.A.S.H.

“They have a sense of comradery. They feel a part of part of something, and that belongingness,” Loy said.

“That doesn’t happen with every group.”

Rachel Razon, a communications major, said the event was a collaboration with other communication classes and clubs on campus.

Razon said they collaborated with other communication classes as part of their last assignment.