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In this ever competitive world, more and more universities design social practice programs which could improve the participants’ comprehensive development and help them to keep up with the Joneses. Among those various programs, unpaid community service seems to be the most familiar and feasible one.

 

Some people think it’s necessary to popularize unpaid community service in the university. It is said that people’s awareness and consciousness of humanity could be enhanced through volunteer activities. Besides, students can accumulate a great deal of social experience through their service activities, which will be very beneficial to their future career development.

 

In spite of all the merits mentioned above, I think it’s not the university’s duty to offer unpaid community service. First of all, most students are not independent of their parents, thus they could be self-sufficient through paid community service, which could improve their independence and confidence at the same time. In addition, the paid community service could give the students a chance to experience the hardships of making a living, which is conducive to their future career development. Moreover, some more sophisticated community service could be accomplished by the government through allocating more revenue to the relevant communities or agencies.

 

Although the provision of popularizing the unpaid community service in university sounds reasonable to some extent, my opinion prevails over it certainly. Charity dose need the student volunteers’ efforts, but the government should carry the burden by attaching more importance to the construction of social welfare system.