Tuesday, April 21, 1998
Community Briefs
Students raise money to fight hunger
On Saturday, 80 members of various UCLA organizations joined
students throughout California and the nation to help raise more
than $100,000 for hunger relief as part of the 14th annual Huger
Cleanup, a project of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger
and Homelessness.
UCLA students helped raise about $1,500 this year. Half the
funds raised by UCLA will go to People Helping People, an emergency
winter shelter and recovery center. The rest of the money will go
to support the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and
Homelessness and the International Development Exchange.
The Hunger Cleanup, a community service work-a-thon, involved
volunteers earning hourly sponsorship dollars for their time
cleaning up, refurbishing and repainting food banks, shelters and
community kitchens.
Over the past 13 years, student volunteers have raised more than
$1 million for national and international hunger and homelessness
organizations.
Steinem speaks on herstory, not history
STANFORD, Calif. — Gloria Steinem, author and activist, spoke
before a capacity crowd at Stanford University’s Kresge Auditorium
Thursday, stressing the importance of reclaiming history.
The speech was the keynote address of Herstory, the annual
campus-wide celebration of women, sponsored by the Women’ Coalition
and the ASSU Speakers Bureau.
Steinem, who has been working for the past five years on a book
on women’s history in the United States, talked about how the loss
of history is a shared characteristic of marginalized groups.
"We render invisible … 95 percent of human history," she said.
"I hope yours will be the generation that makes the invisible
visible."
Steinem emphasized the need to learn from different
cultures.
She said the idea of equality and the origins of feminist
thought came from native cultures.
Berkeley student commits suicide
BERKELEY, Calif. — A graduate student from Spain apparently
hanged himself at the International House at UC Berkeley late last
week, making this the third such reported case in the past five
years.
According to UC police, Luis Llorente, 23, was discovered in his
third-floor room shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday. Authorities said
his body was decomposing, indicating that he may have been dead for
several days.
Residents of the International House said police were notified
after Llorente’s family called the dormitory, inquiring about him
because they had not heard anything from him for several days. When
the front-desk staff arrived at Llorente’s room, they noticed an
odor and decided to open the door.
"The International House assistants all came to the third floor
and they asked us to evacuate the rooms," said graduate student
Sung-Hoon Park.
Park said he had noticed a smell on the third floor Saturday
morning but thought it was the restrooms. Police placed fans in
Llorente’s room and surrounding areas to eliminate the stench.
Although police are still conducting an investigation in the
cause of Llorente’s death, authorities said it appeared that he had
killed himself.
Llorente, described as a quiet and reserved person by his
friends, was from Madrid, Spain, and was studying East Asian
languages. Tracy DeLeon, coordinator for Resident Support Services,
said Llorente had lived at the I-House since fall.
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff and wire reports.