through COOL (box, page 31). Bill Hoog
terp, a 1986 grad of Aquinas, is field coordi
nator for the Boston-based National Stu
dent Campaign Against Hunger. While
still at Aquinas, Hoogterp managed to
raise $10,000 for local hunger-relief chari
ties through a town cleanup. The link be
tween local and global action appealed to
NSCAH (sponsored by Public Interest Re
search Groups and USA for Africa), which
adopted the idea as a national campaign
last spring at 250 schools. "Students are
like mosquitoes in a nudist camp," says
Hoogterp. "They know there's a lot to do,
but they don’t know where to start.”
Mmmt fw lawytrs: While fulfilling to stu
dents, volunteerism also pleases adminis
trators—it makes them look good and can
ease town-and-gown friction. The 125
member College Compact, which includes
Brown, Georgetown, Harvard and Stan
ford, was created earlier this year by col
lege presidents to promote campus activ
ism. Schools have put money on the line
along with moral support. Georgetown has
a special service floor in Copley dorm. Har
vard has funded its new Public Service Pro
gram (complementing the work of an older
student-run group, Phillips Brooks House
Association, Inc.) with part of the interest
from a $1 million endowment.
Some administrators are trying to en
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volunteer programs;
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supply leadership train
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worthy projects. Among
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trate on student
participation:
Project of Public and
Community Service
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Providence, R.1.02912
(401)803-1119
Begun by university
presidents and now com
prising 125 schools, this
group is gathering the
first solid data on school
service in the 1980s
through a poll of mem
ben and holds confer
ence* on service uuue*.
18018th Street NW
Suite 706
Washington, D.C. 20006
(202)783-8865
COOL it building a
school network to pro
mote comprehensive,
broad-bated community
tervice. Its new ",Re
source Book for Students
in Community Service “
it destined to become an
indispensable reference.
37 Temple Place
Boston, Man. 02111
(617) 292-4800
Sponsored by the cam
pus based Public Interest
Research Groups and
USA for Africa, NSCAH
gives money to groups
that increase awareness
of hunger both within
the United States and
abroad, and sponsors
projects like National
Food Day and the Na
tional Hunger Clean-Up.
1901 University
Avenue SE
Minneapolis
Minn. 55414
(612)373-9700
Working to regain their
historic prominence in
the service field through
the existing network of
Y's, the association pro
vides more than 30 col
lege-based member Y's
with leadership training
and consultation on
projects.
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