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Alternative Spring Break employs new sign up system |
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Tuesday, 23 January 2007 |
by REBECCA GARDNER
Lifestyles Reporter
Appalachian State University students will have the opportunity to get involved with many service projects and volunteer activities all over the country during Spring Break.
Through
the Alternative Spring Break program, students will be working at
YMCAs, orphanages and soup kitchens in order to touch the lives of many
through service.
“I would definitely suggest that students go,” junior psychology major
Kelsey D. Smith said. “It is the most rewarding and life changing
experience, and I can’t find a better way to spend my break.”
Smith is co-leading an alternative spring break trip to Harlem, N.Y.
“We will be helping children with their homework,” Smith said. “And they will most likely braid our hair and teach us to dance.”
There are 16 domestic trips that will be available to students for through ASB this year.
Among these are trips to Chicago, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New
York, Pittsburg, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
In order to go on the trips, there will be a lottery system this year, which is different from previous years.
Students must have a lottery number to register.
Next Monday through Jan. 31 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Appalachian
and the Community Together Office, students will be able to register
for a lottery number.
Students will receive a “guaranteed number certificate” that they will
take with them, and that number will be recorded at that time,
according to the ACT Web site.
Sign-ups will begin Jan. 31 in the Blue Ridge Ballroom of Plemmons
Student Union. The sign-ups start at 9 p.m., but the doors will open at
8 p.m.
When students get to the Blue Ridge Ballroom, they will sign-in and get
their official lottery number at that time, according to the ACT Web
site.
“If you are not there by 9 p.m., you will only receive an opportunity
to sign-up following the entire lottery process,” according to the ACT
Web site. “If you cannot make it by 9 p.m. because of a class or
another commitment, you must communicate that to us ahead of time of
lottery registration, and we will save your number.”
As the numbers are called, the students with those numbers will then be able to go and sign-up for the trip of their choice.
Only one lottery number will be issued per person.
The trips will cost $185 and will cover housing, transportation and several meals. A $100 deposit is due when students sign up.
For more information, visit www.act.appstate.edu.
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