Community service should be compulsory for freshman class
Everyone on campus is aware of the Puget Sound bubble: the mentality that makes it so easy to spend four year here and not get involved in anything not directly related to campus. The best way to break from our insular mindset would be to establish a community service requirement for freshmen. Perspectives provides a sampling of Tacoma during orientation, but does not provide a structure for continuous involvement in the Tacoma area. One function of such a structure would be to show students that community service is not difficult...