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Posted on 03/07/2006 11:21:58 AM PST by LA Woman3
MADISON, Wis. -- Spring break starts Friday for many college students across the country, including University of Wisconsin-Madison students, reported WISC-TV.
While many students will head for higher temperatures and sunshine, many others will head to work.
Brittany Bethel and her friends have dreamed of spring break in Cancun.
But after seeing the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina last year, she and others are packing up their bags and heading to New Orleans to lend a helping hand.
"We're going to be working through the Crescent House, which is a house for domestically abused women and children," said Bethel. "We're going to be reconstructing one of the buildings that got completely destroyed during the hurricane."
Bethel said she was caught up in the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and wanted to do whatever she could to help out afterward.
The freshman called it her chance to make a difference.
Bethel decided to volunteer her break after receiving an e-mail about 11 options sponsored by the university.
The trip is much cheaper than a traditional spring break vacation. Prices range from $90 to $270, according to the television station.
More than 100 students will be working on projects such as this during spring break this year.
Besides helping in New Orleans, students will spend the week in the Florida Everglades removing invasive plants and planting trees.
Others will be in Memphis to help register voters and prepare meals for the Peace and Justice Center.
Ping!
"Others will be in Memphis to help register voters and prepare meals for the Peace and Justice Center."
"Bethel decided to volunteer her break after receiving an e-mail about 11 options sponsored by the university."
Living outside of Madison, WI, I can guarantee that registering voters will be the primary activity in any location where these caring, compassionate, liberal college kids are spending Spring Break. *Rolleyes*
I'll see if I can find more on this "trip" for you, and who is sponsoring it through the UW.
The absolute ingratitiude many Katrina folks have shown might be a good wakeup call for these lib kiddies.
How about the non workers get a JOB!
Apparently, the students will be spoon-feeding the evacuees and wiping their butts. The evacuees are not handicapped, it's just that these are the only tasks the students could find that aren't already being performed for the evacuees.
</SARCASM*>
Maybe they could spend some time in Texas removing some "undocumented" invasive animals....
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Seriously, though, if they wanted to get New Orleans back up and running, the best thing for them to do would be to come down here, hit the Quarter, and get as wasted as possible every night. Hell, that idea would probably be a lot more palatable to your average college student anyway. New Orleans is a tourism town. Our economy could use a jump-start. Now if only the hotels could be emptied of evacuees so that tourists could actually get back in here...
The best place to see that firsthand would be Houston, and probably Baton Rouge too.
Here's hoping they don't get robbed or worse while helping the needy.
I really suspect that the ONLY actual goal is to feel good about themselves...
Hard-working Katrina Survivors can be found rebuilding New Orleans.
Oh, without a doubt. But while they're busy doing that...
Good lord, the one's back in New Orleans are the hard working people. The whiners are still scattered abroad. I live where Rita hit hard and most people who are busy cleaning up and recovering are very thankful for any help that comes their way.
That may be but seeing the destruction up close and personal tends to change how you see things.
I posted without reading...(Hey, it's what I do...) Helping the hardworking in NO is vastly different from helping evacuees lounging in a hotel somewhere.
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