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Number of volunteers is greater than you think
I was astonished by the Jan. 24 article “Schedule time to help others out” in the TCU Daily Skiff. Emily Turner bashed students for not volunteering based on her experience with her sorority sisters. Making generalizations based on a small population of students only hurts your viewpoint of TCU students because the majority of students are exceptionally involved in community and school activities.

Not every TCU student falls into the same category as her sorority sisters. I am a junior, non-sorority woman. Besides volunteering for Young Life on a regular basis, I have been involved in community service in a variety of ways.

Now, maybe I am a rare individual who volunteers regularly and am surrounded by those who do. But after investigating this issue a little further, this certainly does not seem to be true. According to statistics, TCU students contribute more than 60,000 hours of community service each year.

I agree it would be beneficial for us all to venture outside of our own worlds for a little while and help others. But, on the same scale, we need to look outside our own worlds and not generalize about all students from the standards of sorority sisters.

— Shannon Flynn, junior speech communication major