College Students Pitch in to Aid Riot Relief Efforts : Charity: Food, clothing, furniture and money are being collected at Loyola Marymount, El Camino, Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Students at colleges around the South Bay have responded with a variety of relief efforts to aid victims of the rioting that broke out following the verdict in the Rodney G. King beating trial.

At Loyola Marymount University, students collected several truckloads of everything from food and clothing to furniture by going door-to-door in the residential areas around their Westchester campus.

The students distributed leaflets asking for donations and told residents to leave the goods on their front porches for pickup. The students took the donated items to churches and other organizations, such as the Salvation Army, that are working with those who lost homes and jobs.

“We got quite a large response,” said one student organizer, Brian Grogan. “We were getting food, clothes, baby supplies. We even got couches, a refrigerator and two stoves.”

Grogan said the effort will continue into the fall and that other schools are being asked to participate.

In addition, after a series of meetings with students in the days following the rioting, Loyola officials said the university would donate $50,000 to the relief effort.

In a statement announcing the donation, the university president, Father Thomas P. O’Malley, said, “If out of these tragic days we can come a little closer to grasping that we are indeed all brothers and sisters of one another, the devastation will not have been in vain.”

At El Camino College, several classes launched drives to collect food and clothing. Campuswide, a drive is on to collect money to aid students who were injured or incurred damages because of the rioting.

“We have one young man whose house was burned to the ground,” said Mary Ann Keating, public information officer at the college.

At Cal State Dominguez Hills, students, faculty and staff members set up nine locations on campus, including one in the university library, where people can bring food, clothes and other basic necessities for riot victims.

Money also is being collected at the library, the dining facility and the bookstore. The greatest need, according to organizers of the Dominguez drive, is for money and canned foods.