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Greeks unite, donate books
By Bridget Karl
Collegian Reporter
One thing in
common between Hillsdale College and its surrounding community
is an appreciation for books.
The women of Kappa Kappa Gamma
sorority are organizing a community service project that will
cater to local book lovers. Titled the All-Greek Book Drive,
the project will benefit the Hillsdale Community Library.
Senior Dana Falvo, who is co-chairing
the event with senior Anna Haynes, said statistics on the Hillsdale
community reflected an "astronomically low" literacy
rate.
"We hope to make a positive
impact on the Hillsdale community," Haynes said.
All the sororities and fraternities
were invited last week to participate in the semester-long event
to collect books to donate around exam time..
A unifying all-Greek party at
the end of the drive is planned to celebrate the event.
The Kappas' idea originated not
only as a desire to support the local community but also to
strengthen Hillsdale's Greek community following recent developments
surrounding the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Alpha Xi Delta
sorority.
"It's an attempt on our part
to unite as a Greek community to show we can do something good,"
Falvo said. "We want to shine a good light-not limit ourselves
to what [the campus] is seeing now."
While the focus of the event is
for Greeks, the generosity of non-Greeks is welcome.
"If anyone [outside of the
Greek Community] is willing to make donations, they can drop
off books at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house, preferably children's
books and no text books," Haynes said.
Jacqueline Morris, director of
the Hillsdale Community Library, said that although she is excited
about the book drive, she is concerned the library will receive
a large amount of textbooks that it cannot use.
However, she said she is enthusiastic
about the prospect of receiving books pertinent to the interests
of community members. Morris said that the library often is
ill-equipped to meet the demand local patrons' desire for mystery,
suspense and action novels.
The library especially needs children's
books, bestsellers and craft and gardening books.
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