Alternative Spring Break offers students a chance to help
Bailey McBride
Issue date: 1/23/09 Section: News
This Spring Break, students have the opportunity to chose from four Alternative Spring Break trips to serve across the South.
"Alternative Spring Break was a really eye-opening and life-changing experience for me," said Rosalyn Taylor, a sophomore who participated in the Southeast Arkansas trip last spring.
For 2009, students have four trips to chose from if they wish to attend Alternative Spring Break. Trips to northeast and southwest Arkansas remain, with two new trips this year to Galveston, Texas, and a Civil Rights trip to four cities across the South.
The trip to Southwest Arkansas is led by Becky Howard, assistant director for Leadership Development for UA Housing, and Veronika Salazar, associate director for the Multicultural Center and coordinator for the Silas Hunt scholars.
"You have to be a part of Alternative Spring Break to have a sense of the appreciation for diversity it provides," said Salazar. "We all learned something on our trip last year."
The southwest Arkansas trip will be March 17 through March 22, and will focus on the Texarkana and Hope areas, near where Silas Hunt was born. Students will stay in a restored schoolhouse in Washington State Park.
"It provides an opportunity for students to give back. Many of my students wouldn't have an opportunity to go to college were it not for Silas Hunt," said Salazar.
The trip to northeast Arkansas will be March 14 through March 19 and will consist of service projects in the Wynne area around Highway 64. This trip will also involve a trip to the Memphis food bank.
A special new trip this year will focus on hurricane recovery efforts in Galveston, Texas. The trip will last from March 14 through March 20.
The other new trip for this year will be the Civil Rights service tour of the South. The trip will last from March 13 through March 22, and will take students to service projects in Little Rock, Birmingham, Ala., Memphis and Atlanta.
"The Civil Rights movement was a movement of service and volunteers who gave their time," said Angela Oxford, director of the Volunteer Action Center.
"Alternative Spring Break was a really eye-opening and life-changing experience for me," said Rosalyn Taylor, a sophomore who participated in the Southeast Arkansas trip last spring.
For 2009, students have four trips to chose from if they wish to attend Alternative Spring Break. Trips to northeast and southwest Arkansas remain, with two new trips this year to Galveston, Texas, and a Civil Rights trip to four cities across the South.
The trip to Southwest Arkansas is led by Becky Howard, assistant director for Leadership Development for UA Housing, and Veronika Salazar, associate director for the Multicultural Center and coordinator for the Silas Hunt scholars.
"You have to be a part of Alternative Spring Break to have a sense of the appreciation for diversity it provides," said Salazar. "We all learned something on our trip last year."
The southwest Arkansas trip will be March 17 through March 22, and will focus on the Texarkana and Hope areas, near where Silas Hunt was born. Students will stay in a restored schoolhouse in Washington State Park.
"It provides an opportunity for students to give back. Many of my students wouldn't have an opportunity to go to college were it not for Silas Hunt," said Salazar.
The trip to northeast Arkansas will be March 14 through March 19 and will consist of service projects in the Wynne area around Highway 64. This trip will also involve a trip to the Memphis food bank.
A special new trip this year will focus on hurricane recovery efforts in Galveston, Texas. The trip will last from March 14 through March 20.
The other new trip for this year will be the Civil Rights service tour of the South. The trip will last from March 13 through March 22, and will take students to service projects in Little Rock, Birmingham, Ala., Memphis and Atlanta.
"The Civil Rights movement was a movement of service and volunteers who gave their time," said Angela Oxford, director of the Volunteer Action Center.
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