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Do you know what you're doing spring break?
Brandy Egertson
Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: News
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For the last 13 years, hundreds of students have participated in the Student Involvement Center's Alternative Spring Break or ASB.
ASB is an affordable way to travel on your spring break while doing something great for your common man. Students that attend the event go for their spring break and while their experiencing the culture, ethnicity, and architecture of their location they also are contributing to the betterment of food banks, homelessness, and house repair.
This year the trip is to Greenville, North Carolina. " (Students will be ) working on rehabbing houses to turn them into halfway houses for people coming out of homelessness or people out of rehab." said Linda Burke of the ISU Volunteer Service Center Director.
On Oct. 29 , some 28 names will be drawn out of a hat to see who's lucky enough to go. For approximately $250, students get flight, food, and accommodations to North Carolina and will be working with fellow East Carolina University students.
If you would like to go to North Carolina for spring break, this is the low down. Contact the Student Involvement Center at 282-3451 to get your name in the hat by Oct. 28. If your name gets picked, the orientation meeting will be Nov. 9.
At orientation students will decided on a few fundraisers to do on campus and out in the community in order to cushion the expenses for the trip. There will be several team building workshops throughout the year to strength the group's closeness and abilities.
The philosophy of the venture is to build a strong and united team to travel together, serve together, live together, work together, and learn together and to play together. In addition to the major focus of service and learning, this trip is an important exercise in leadership, group dynamics, delegation, and cooperation.
This spring break trip is a "full bodied experience," said Burke.
Greenville was founded in 1771 as "Martinsborough," but In 1786, the city's name was changed to Greenesville in honor of General Nathanael Greene, a Revolutionary War hero. Years later it was shortened to Greenville. The town is beautiful, has a rich history and a must see university.
ASB is an affordable way to travel on your spring break while doing something great for your common man. Students that attend the event go for their spring break and while their experiencing the culture, ethnicity, and architecture of their location they also are contributing to the betterment of food banks, homelessness, and house repair.
This year the trip is to Greenville, North Carolina. " (Students will be ) working on rehabbing houses to turn them into halfway houses for people coming out of homelessness or people out of rehab." said Linda Burke of the ISU Volunteer Service Center Director.
On Oct. 29 , some 28 names will be drawn out of a hat to see who's lucky enough to go. For approximately $250, students get flight, food, and accommodations to North Carolina and will be working with fellow East Carolina University students.
If you would like to go to North Carolina for spring break, this is the low down. Contact the Student Involvement Center at 282-3451 to get your name in the hat by Oct. 28. If your name gets picked, the orientation meeting will be Nov. 9.
At orientation students will decided on a few fundraisers to do on campus and out in the community in order to cushion the expenses for the trip. There will be several team building workshops throughout the year to strength the group's closeness and abilities.
The philosophy of the venture is to build a strong and united team to travel together, serve together, live together, work together, and learn together and to play together. In addition to the major focus of service and learning, this trip is an important exercise in leadership, group dynamics, delegation, and cooperation.
This spring break trip is a "full bodied experience," said Burke.
Greenville was founded in 1771 as "Martinsborough," but In 1786, the city's name was changed to Greenesville in honor of General Nathanael Greene, a Revolutionary War hero. Years later it was shortened to Greenville. The town is beautiful, has a rich history and a must see university.
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