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Alternative Spring Break
Students nationwide are spending their spring breaks on service-oriented trips, ranging from house building in the still devastated Gulf Coast to volunteering in Caribbean orphanages. Almost 100 students at Colorado State University are participating in this year's Alternative Spring Break, heading to eight different locations across the world to participate in service projects. The Kansas State Collegian interviews Danielle Wong, one of the school’s student veterans of New Orleans service trips. Ohio University students are heading to Katrina-affected areas for rebuilding efforts; students from that school are also volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic this spring break. The University of Minnesota reports on the Pay It Forward Tour, a nine-day service trip organized by the group Students Today, Leaders Forever. The group, started by three students in 2003, will take about 600 students to various locations across the country, doubling last year’s participation. University of South Carolina student volunteers with Campus Crusade for Christ are headed to New Orleans; additionally, a group of USC students will be traveling to one of the Gullah islands to help restore the oldest known building for freed slaves. In Texas, students are holding an Alternative Spring Break of a political bent; more than 50 students from around the country are registered to attend the Anti-Death Penalty Alternative Spring Break.
3/9/07 Read More from Colorado State University
3/9/07 Read More from Kansas State University
3/9/07 Read More from Ohio University
3/9/07 Read More from the University of Minnesota
