Students across the country drew attention to National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week these past five days. Campuses organized many more events than we can include, but coverage from a few universities offers a window into the week’s many events.

At Tulane, students organized a Hunger Banquet to illustrate global food inequity. Muhlenberg College students, who also held a hunger banquet, organized a sleep-out in cardboard boxes, and displayed a marble dropping every 3.5 seconds—the frequency with which someone in the world dies of hunger. Students attending Vassar College held a Peanut Butter and Jelly Jam to make and distribute sandwiches to hungry people within the community. Students also fasted and picked food for a local soup kitchen. Susquehanna students participated in a D.C. walkathon and distributed bagged lunches to the homeless. The staff of Mt. Hood Community College’s paper The Advocate did its own holiday community service, publishing the local where and how of free meals this Thanksgiving.

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