Even if you are unable to join as a walker, please consider sponsoring a colleague or another student directly or contact Doug to arrange for a contribution to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. You haven't even started thinking about mid-terms yet, but you can start making plans for your semester break. For the fourth year, the Center for Community Outreach and St. Thomas Aquinas Center will be co-sponsoring an Urban Plunge. The Urban Plunge is a unique, week-long program that provides an intense learning experience which revolves around the problems and issues found in the American urban setting and also provides an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the reasons for these problems. Conversational Partners Opportunities exist for students to be matched with a person from a foreign country for language and cultural exchange.
Pairs meet on campus at a mutually agreeable time.
They also offer a different service opportunity for students who might otherwise have to devote their time to other priorities. Participants will have a chance to participate in a variety of projects, including working with Habitat for Humanity to build a house, painting at a soup kitchen, working at a fund-raising auction, entertaining children in a campus Youth Day, and visiting senior citizens for a coffee hour. Volunteers will read to children in the reception area while they or family members are waiting for treatment. Families will also have the opportunity to take a book home with them to read to their children. Days and times of the program will be determined in the first 2 weeks of September.