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Noriega takes singles, shares doubles tifl :;zq . USD players won oth the smgles an'lti:totibtes titles yesterday in the San Diego All-College Tennis Tour- nament at USD. Top-seeded Jose Luis Noriega beat teammate Mark Farren in the sin- gles final 6-3, 6-4. In the doubles final, top-seeded Noriega and Dave Stewart defeated Joe McDonough and Woody Yocum of San Diego State 6-3, 6-1. The victo- ry marked the third time in four years that Stewart was a part of the winning doubles team. ----------~~--~

_,., HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS: Visit Ensenada for a Christmas shopping adventure sponsored by the Citizen Di~lomacy of ~n Diego. ~uSC:S ~ill leave at 9 a.m. Saturday from First Umted ~ethod1St Church m~ion Valley and will return by 7 p.m. The $30 ~ee includes transportation and luncheon. For information and reservations, call 456-8049 by W~nes- day.... Just in time for the holidays adop~ble pets will be available at the Lumberyard Shopping Center mEncinitas from 11 a.m. t? 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For information, call 236-4255.... The Friends of the Santee Library will have their Christmas party from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the library. A white elephan~ aucti~n will be he~. For information, call 448-1863. . . . A community choir concert will present "A Festival of Lessons and Carols" at 8 p.m. Saturday a USD's . Founders Chapel. For information, call 260-4600 ext. 4468.•.. The Sair Diego Mandolin Orchestra will present a Christmas program from 1 to 3 p.m Saturday at Grossmont Center. For information, call 466-5~2L ... Marketing, advertising and public relations commumcators are mv1ted to a holiday mixer from 11:30 a.m. to_ 1:30 p.m._ tomorrow _at Emb~ssy Suites Hotel 4550 La Jolla Village DTIVe. Cost 1s $20. For mformation, call 223-2355. Members of the San Diego County Medical Society are invited to celebrate the holidays at 6p.m. Wednesday at the Museum of San Diego History in Balboa Park. Cost is $5. For information, call 565-

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guard Carrick DeHart, who had six points (3-of-11 shooting). UCSB got big mght from its big men. Mike Doyle, Gary Gray and Eric McArthur combined for 44 points and 19 rebounds Doyle scored a game-high 19. The early turnovers, though, were what took the Toreros out of the game. "This wa. the first team to come after us like we go arter other peo- ple," Egan .aid. "And when that hap- pens, you have to tay as a team. You can't just all of a sudden go solo, and we had some guys who went solo against their pres ure. Santa Barba- ra, they're a veteran team, and they taycd calm and just kept runnmg

Egan likes to take his teams, espe- cially young ones, on the road early in the sea on to places where it's tough to play, Last weekend, it was The Pit. Last night, it was UCSB's "Thunder Dome," where two nights earlier against Loyola Marymount a fan protested a call by throwing an empty whisky bottle onto the court. The anticipated baptism of fire didn't come when it was expected, m New Mexico. But come it did. Said sophomore guard Kelvin Means: "This wakes us up to the real- ity that other team aren't going to roll over when we app1y pressure. And that when we are pressured, we just have to be patient and run our stuff"

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"Justice students can volunteer in the courts or m juvenile matters. For health related students there are endless opportunities for community service," she said. It was SDSU students who recently rushed to help the San Diego Hospice when an emergency mailing had to be out in a single day. Volunteers persuaded a group of San Diegans to turn over their state tax rebates to buy paint to rede- corate a school gymnasium. Students work with foster children in a big brother and big sister rela- tionship; they help at the campus child-care center. Fraternity members, often the ob- ject of heavy criticism, are frequent- ly m the front ranks of volunteers, network leaders said. "We work with the the United Way and many other established agencies. We are not trying to reinvent the wheel and look for new areas of need; there's already plenty of identi- fied need out there," said Kim Jack- ow the center is developing a computer data base that will show volunteer opportunities not only by type of need, but by geographical area and by accessibility by bus. To Twombly and Vasconcellos, the center is more than a move to get students to volunteer. "We are trying to establish a greater societal sense that volunteer- ism is a moral obligation in any so- phisticated society," Twombly said. "It's also a way of breaking down some of the traditional isolationism of university campuses and of taking the classroom into the real world," he said. son, a speech major.

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A tiny cubicle tucked away in the Aztec Center of San Diego State Uni- vers1t · fa t becoming a nerve cen- ter of growing new dimension in Cal- ifornia higher education. The tiny office, 6 feet by 6 feet, is a link in a statewide drive to make vol- unteer community service a part of every university student's campus life The student Community Service Network, formed this fall, is develop- ing a program to mobilize SDSU's 35,000 students as volunteers. The state Legislature has passed a bill encouragmg it. SDSU students are already aiding children to improve their reading, math and other skills, they are help- mg the aged cope with everyday life; painting fences and school buildings; even driving blind people around town and helpmg them do their shop- ping. They are not alone. Students from UCSD and the University of Sall Diego are workuig on similar pro- gramsand have formed a consorti- um with SDSU to exchange ideas. Now students at Point Loma College and United States International Uni- versity are plannmg to join the con- sortium, Volunteerism is not new among university students, but it has been sporadic and disorganized, say SDSU student leaders involved in two ef- forts to coordinate community ser- vice volunteers. The first effort i SDSU's Commu- nity Service Network, the brainchild of 1987 Associated Student President Larry Emond. He was determined to leave his mark on the campus by mo- bilizing student volunteer work. He worked to coordinate a variety of unconnected volunteer efforts on campus, ranging from programs run by individual academic departments to established programs operated by the campus Y. The second is legislation, authored by San Jose Assemblyman John Vasconcellos and passed last year, It calls on every state university and University of California student to volunteer 30 hours to community ser- vice each school year. "SDSU had one of the very top- most developed student volunteer ef- forts mCalifornia and was one of the models we USed m developing the state legislation," said Michael P, Twombly, senior ~onsultant to See Volunteer• on 1age B-3 -~---

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The San Diego Union/Jerry Rtfe School. Verner is one of a growing legion of students doing volunteer work.

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Brian Westlund, a finance senior, s so far written to 50 local h11Siness aders seeking financial help and s succeeded in obtaining a few ants. "I'm looking for two kinds of finan- 11 help: small grants to meet im- ediate printing and other operating sts, and ongoing grants covering a rmber of years to give us a continu- s funding base," he said. Selena Brennan, another pol.itical ience junior, 1 already doing a fol- w-up to make u e volunteets and cipients ar happy" th each other. "We real.rze that m kinds of vol- 1teer work is JU not suited to stu- nts, and we d n't want t wa te 1y time or t off any eager tu- nts," she said. Faculty members also are ,getting volved. Instead of requiring written pa- ·rs on community work, faculty embers are now offering up to ree study units for community ser-

vice, and sending the students through the network. The option makes it a combinahon of working for credit and volunteering services. Sean Verner, an aerospace engi- neering major and Sigma Pi frater- nity member, is mhis second year of volunteering as a tutor at the Wilson l'yfiddle School. "I'm really enioymg Ibis. I taught math last year. Now I'm helping with reading," he said. In another corner of the Wilson school library, Carla Becker was busy teaching fractions to seventh- grader Shavonda Mitchell. 'I've learned a lot from doing this community work. I'm an education major and I believe anything that can be done to increase student com- munity work is an excellent idea," she said. For Shavonda it was a head start over the rest of the class in under- standing fractions. "I'm sure a lot of my friends would

like this kind of individual help from a college student, she said. Leslie Robbins, a journalism and advertising major on the network staff, has done class work on commu- nity service both ways - by writing papers and volunteering. "Two years ago I wrote a paper. It was all very theoretical and didn't have too much meaning for me. But by going out into the community and keeping a journal of my experiences, I learned a lot more about every- thing from voluntary service to man- agement and people skills," she said. Now, entire academic depart- ments such as health, the arts and criminal justice are spotlighting community service as part of the curriculum, and the network is tailoring service openings to individ- ual student needs and wishes. "For music and art students we have volunteer jobs as ushers at the San Diego Symphony concerts or at the School of Performing Arts and in

"We're not surprised by the results at places like SDSU. In our prelimi- nary surveys we got the feeling there was a huge pool of willingness on the campuses, but nobody had every said, 'It's OK, the gates are open, go out and do it.' "Now the gates are open, and once organized, we believe they will be flood gates," Twombly said. ·

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