- This year, a growing number of Penn Staters passed up the traditional warm weather spring break destinations of college students nationwide in favor of volunteering for one of several diverse service and learning opportunities offered by various campus organizations. The following represents a small sampling of the many alternative spring break excursions that Penn State students at all campus locations experienced. All of them demonstrate the many different ways that Penn State students continue to serve the community - both in their own backyards and around the world.
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Penn State Spring Breakers Head To West Coast
Seeking To Create Some Shade From The California Sun
February 23, 2001
University Park, Pa. – California is a destination of choice for spring breakers nationwide, a sun-splashed place where students’ concerns shift from studying for midterm exams to finding the best way to avoid sunburn on the beach. Students in Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College, however, will spend their 10-day west coast respite working to heal a California ‘burn’ of a different kind.
Honor Student Leads Contingent To Rural Pennsylvania
To Teach Disadvantaged Children About Health, Nutrition
February 26, 2001
University Park, Pa. – By carrying an impressive 3.81 grade point average in a demanding double-major curriculum in nutrition and media studies, there’s no question that Annina Burns is well-deserving of a relaxing spring break vacation.
Project Haiti Will Send Smiles Across The Miles–
42 Students, Community Members To Help Over Break
February 27, 2001
University Park, Pa. – Alternative spring break service programs at campuses nationwide tend to be judged according to quantity: how many volunteers, how much work will be completed, how an area will be revitalized.
Christian Student Fellowship Again Offers Relief
To Carolina Residents Struggling In Hurricane’s Wake
February 28, 2001
University Park, Pa. – While volunteer service excursions over spring break continue to rise in popularity and participation at college campuses nationwide, few have provided a helping hand to those less fortunate for as long as Penn State’s Christian Student Fellowship’s (CSF) Alternative Spring Break program.
Crew Of 145 Habitat For Humanity Student Volunteers
Set Out To Build Brighter Futures For Needy Families
March 1, 2001
University Park, Pa. – Low income families in central Pennsylvania have long been beneficiaries of Penn State students who have teamed with other local volunteers to donate their time and labor to the Tricounty chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Alternative Spring Break Club Dispatches
Student Volunteers To Eight Locations Nationwide
March 2, 2001
University Park, Pa. – Members of the Penn State Alternative Spring Break club (ASB) are forsaking sun and surf next week to serve meals in a Boston soup kitchen, volunteer for a women's health fair in New Mexico, and help at AIDS-related facilities in major metropolitan areas, among other projects.