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Show AggieLife Page 10 BAG a BOOK for the BEACH! eroleoC•witz—_- SPRINd BREAKBOOK SALE MERRILLCAZIER, LIBRARY FOYER ;:t4,-1901 March 11th & 12th ALL BOOKS 25 0$ PLUS TAX il,14 UtahStateUniversity e , MERRILL-CAZIER LIBRARY Nation& Womgn'$ tii$torg Month timeet:4, Salt/gra seoraidtet March 10th 2010 TSC Auditorium 12:00-2:00 *Donations for Hope for Haiti are welcome Sponsored by: Women's Resource Center Michigan students spend Spring Break in Logan as a Volkswagen. There were other students, he said, who went above and beyond the requirements and made something that staff writer much better, such as a Cadillac. "They're all gardening tools. There's no right or wrong way. Eleven students from Grand Valley State University in But some students really made a Cadillac," Clelland said. Michigan are spending their Spring Break in Logan, with a proOne of the tools that was made featured red, yellow and black gram called Alternative Breaks. stripes. The students who worked on it dubbed it the "King Cobra Melissa Clothier, senior in health professions, is on the execuKiller Tiller." According to Clelland, students said the tool's was tive board of GVSU's Alternative Breaks program and said the to frighten away the rodents around the area. program sends volunteers across the nation, but Utah is the far"I wish I had them for longer," Clelland said. thest west the program has ever gone. The students also worked on low tech assis"It's a fun, affordable way to spend our tive technology, where they glued different break and learn about issues that affect us all," things in books to make it a "tactile experi"Everyone was like, Clothier said. ence," Sheen said. The books are then given Utah? Wha t's in GVSU students can apply to participate to children with sight disabilities, so they can in one of three different types of alternative Utah?" read the books. break such as weekend breaks, spring breaks The students will continue doing service and winter breaks. Clothier said the weekend the rest of the week, including cleaning up and - Melissa Clothier, breaks are kept within Michigan, and the probuilding a playground behind the Edith Bowen executive board member gram allows anyone to volunteer. school. The weekend breaks make it so people who The Alternative Breaks program at GVSU on GVSU's Alternative don't want to spend a week doing service can has sent 12 groups across the country this Breaks program still do work for others, Clothier said. Spring Break to do various projects, Clothier Jeff Sheen, who works with the Center of said. Persons with Disabilities (CPD) at USU, said "When students apply to be in the program, the CPD started a volunteer program last year they have the option to pick what kind of issue and has been talking with the group leaders since November via they'd like to work with. There are five different issues, and we e-mail. try to put them with their top choice," Clothier said. "To have people say, 'We'd like to volunteer and we're coming The students are not told where the projects will be held until from Michigan,' is just the most exciting thing," Sheen said. they meet for the first time, and none of them know anyone they The group has come to work primarily with Common will be working with before the first meeting. Ground. The volunteer coordinator for Common Ground was in "Everyone was like, 'Utah? What's in Utah?"' Clothier said. Alternative Breaks, which is how the projects were set up. Lydia Benkert, sophomore in special education, said she loves Monday, the group worked in the Janet Quinney Lawson the mountains. building, adapting hand tools for the community garden, used by "I've never seen mountains before. We're still really amazed by the Utah Conservation Corps. the mountains," she said. Stan Clelland, research technician, oversaw the students' work The group drove from Michigan to Utah, which was a 25-hour with the tools. He said they worked well together in small groups, drive. The group arrived in Utah Saturday night, around 8:30, as well as a whole. said Ally Himsman, junior in public and nonprofit administra"They were outgoing and personable. They worked really well tion. together in their small groups, where they worked on the tools. I She said she drove some of the way, but was sleeping during think they had a good time," Clelland said. the ride through the mountains. Clelland said the students were very creative with the project. 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