Community Service
| In recent years, The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues has grown to be something much greater than a law review. On top of publishing quality scholarly pieces aimed at bringing awareness and support to issues surrounding minorities. The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues has chosen to also support the people that fill the pages of our Law Review through our community service. The Law Review seeks to speak on behalf of minorities by reaching out to the larger community, to inform them, to share with them, to educate them, and to grow with them. While The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues has always brought a "voice to the voiceless," we now bring food to the hungry, homes to the homeless, and hope to the hopeless.
Volume 12: 2009-2010
In recognition of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues is currently collecting hats for all cancer patients who lose their hair to chemotherapy. We will be donating these hats to the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. The Cancer Therapy & Research Center, one of the nation's premier cancer centers, first opened its doors in 1974 as a nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing the community with outpatient radiation therapy. The CTRC continues to serve, in a vastly expanded capacity, residents of San Antonio and South Texas, as well as patients from across the U.S., northern Mexico and other countries around the globe.
Planned for Volume 12:
~2nd Annual The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues Children's Book Drive. Service Awards: ~2008-2009 Dean Charles Cantu Spirit of Service Award ~2009 Law School Commitment to Service Award (awarded to St. Mary's University School of Law) Volume 11: 2008-2009
~Fall 2008, Hurricane Ike Charity Drive: The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues collected food, money and clothing to send to the victims of Hurricane Ike. Over 50 boxes of clothing and 10 boxes of food was donated to the victims of Galveston and well as a monetary donation was made to the first responders of the City of Galveston. ~Spring 2009, Children's Book Drive: More than 30 boxes of children's books and over $1,000 was collected for local San Antonio children shelters. We donated books to the Guadalupe Home, which is transitional residential program for homeless pregnant women and homeless mothers with infants. We also made a contribution to The Children's Shelter (www.chshel.org), which is a child service agency offering emergency shelter and therapeutic foster care. The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues would like to thank the St. Mary's University School of Law Student Bar Association and Half-Priced Books for their generous contributions to our efforts and Becky Gleason, Comments Editor of Volume 11 for getting this idea of community service started. Other community service events The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues members participate in: Ask a Lawyer, Wills Clinic, Race Judicata, Halloween Boo Bash, CLSJ Thanksgiving baskets, VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistant). |
