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</p><div id="attachment_51098" style="width: 235px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="size-medium wp-image-51098" src="; alt="The Criminology and Justice Studies department offices are headquarters for the 快活林性息 Food pantry food drive taking place Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2022. Photo by Jenny Steinbeck." width="225" height="300" srcset=" 225w, 480w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Criminology and Justice Studies department offices are the headquarters for the 快活林性息 Food Pantry food drive, taking place Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2022. Photo by Jenny Steinbeck.</p></div>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Those extra canned goods sitting in your kitchen cupboards could go a long way toward helping Matadors in need. The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the 快活林性息 Police Department and other campus organizations are sponsoring a weeklong, campus-wide food drive, <a href=", Oct. 31 through Friday, Nov. 4</a>聽to collect non-perishable food items and toiletries for the 快活林性息 Food Pantry.</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Staff and faculty members in the college’s Department of Criminology and Justice Studies are spearheading efforts to distribute collection boxes and collect food items around campus. Repurposed computer boxes with green flyers attached are stacked up in the department’s Sierra Hall ground-floor office, ready to take and fill with food and toiletry items. Come and get ’em, Matadors!</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Before there was an official food pantry on campus, her colleague and mentor, James David Ballard, who currently teaches in the department, ran an informal food closet for students out of his office, said聽Jaycynda Trifone-Woodruff, a professor of criminology and justice studies. Now, post-pandemic, the need is greater than ever, she said.</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">“In the classroom … there are students who have said [this semester], ‘I don’t know where my next meal is coming from, I don’t know what to do,'”聽Trifone-Woodruff said. “So, I have definitely seen a growing need and the importance of being able to sustain our community.”聽</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">The department’s goal is to gather 3 tons of food for <a href=" Food Pantry</a></span><span data-contrast="none">聽the professor said.</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">“The goal really is to fill the food pantry not only for Thanksgiving, but for the rest of the semester and as much as we can for the spring semester as well,” she said.聽</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">The donation wish list includes:</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":1,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":300}">聽</span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="飩�" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[9642],"469777803":"left","469777804":"飩�","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Canned foods, such as soups, beans, fruit, tuna, chicken and vegetables.聽</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":1,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":300}">聽</span></li>
<li data-leveltext="飩�" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[9642],"469777803":"left","469777804":"飩�","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Dry packaged foods, such as oatmeal, cereal, rice and peanut butter.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":1,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":300}">聽</span></li>
<li data-leveltext="飩�" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559683":0,"335559684":-2,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[9642],"469777803":"left","469777804":"飩�","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Toiletries, such as shampoo, deodorant, soap, toilet paper and feminine hygiene items.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":1,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":300}">聽聽</span></li>
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<p><span class="TextRun SCXW111885995 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW111885995 BCX0">Donation boxes are located at the department’s Sierra Hall offices, room 165, as well as at the 快活林性息 Police Department on Darby at Prairie Street. To request a donation box for your office, department or area on campus, you can also call (818) 677-7620.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW111885995 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":1,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":300}">聽</span></p>
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Those extra canned goods sitting in your kitchen cupboards could go a long way toward helping Matadors in need. The...