Students Give Back During Holiday Season

By Craig Reed

December 12, 2006

While many people are out looking for the perfect gift and eagerly awaiting what St. Nick may have in store for us, several groups of MSUCOM students put on the elves' hats to help out those who struggle with providing themselves with the essentials.

Sigma Sigma Phi's Coat Drive

When Sigma Sigma Phi announced they were collecting coats to donate to those in need, they didn't quite realize how quickly their large box would fill up with coats of all sorts of styles and sizes. The team had to regularly empty out the box of coats which were sent to Volunteers of America and to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Student Neurology Ophthalmology and Psychiatry Society's Toys for Tots

SNOPS has shown that these future neurologists come with big hearts as they collected small and large toys for the Marine's annual "Toys for Tots" campaign which focuses on providing gifts to children whose families can not afford to give them.

Physicians for Human Rights's "Human Art for Human Rights" Art Fundraiser

Framed photographs, canvas paintings and more awaited attendees to PHR's annual art fundraiser. Students, faculty, staff and their family and friends competed in a silent auction, placing bids on various artworks to raise money for Friendship clinic, a free clinic which provides basic medical care for the uninsured in the Lansing area. Over $4,000 was raised through the event, and a lot of eager participants left with artistic momentos of their generosity