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and a 5-Band Graphic
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Tulane low student Mark Beebe, who
teaches swimming at a local housing proj
ect. The most popular charity affairs,
particularly among Greeks, tend to be en
tertaining: fund-raising triathlons and
lip-syncing contests have never been so
popular Grouses a dance-marathon plan
ner at Northwestern: "No matter how phil
anthropic people’s hearts are. they want to
have fun, and a soup kitchen won’t do it.”
Yet more and more students are pitching
in on soup lines and other service that re
quires a week-in, week-out commitment.
And if their numbers have not hit the
heights of War on Poverty days, these
troops may be, in some ways, more effec
tive An official of the Campus Outreach
Opportunity League (COOL), a clearing
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house for college projects, proudly recalls
that coordinators of an Appalachian sum
mer program praised today’s recruits, say
ing that they bring an earnest, time-con
scious efficiency to their tasks: "Though
the quantity is not as good as in the '60s, the
quality is much better . . they really get
the work done.”
Sanlor bingo: And what work they do
Though the broad outlines of feeding the
hungry, sheltering the homeless and pro
viding companionship to the very young,
the very old and the very ill remain the
same, the proliferation of good deeds shows
great imagination. The Brown Community
Outreach sends volunteers to help South
east Asians adapt to American life and also
lobbies for the preservation of nearby Nar
ragansett Bay. The more than 5(X) George
town st udents who take part i n t he st udent
run Community Action Coalition staff a
shelter for homeless women, tutor prison
inmates and work with a bilingual-educa
tion program And at Tulane’s CACTUS
Awareness Week last spring, senior citi
zens played bingo alongside slum kids tak
ing dance class and hospital volunteers
taking blood pressure.
Kxhorting students to ever-wider levels
of service is a small band of professional
volunteers Wayne Meisel traverses the
country, looking for new projects to push
Swing: DePauwstudents in Guatemala