Swapping Socials For Service Work: Dallas Baptist Freshmen Hit The Ground Running
Most universities host "move-in weeks" for new students; think orientation sessions, mixers and cookouts. Freshmen at Dallas Baptist University are also expected to commit a full day to community service. During orientation, or "SWAT week," freshmen have time for fun, figuring out schedules and decorating dorm rooms . When Friday rolls around, though, it's time to leave campus, and get to work. The KERA radio story A Labor Of Love For hours, students scrub showers with bleach, sweep floors, sort through donated clothes and do load after load of laundry. Towards the end of the afternoon, the 50 or so students volunteering at Cornerstone Baptist Church in South Dallas are beat. But they're happy. "A lot of us were just sleepy when we got here and then when we walked up it was kind of... it was just like refreshing to see that we were actually impacting something that was so close to us,” says freshman Jacey Harris . Harris is from Decatur, and says ...