
By Emily Scott
April 9, 2015
Packaging 148,000 meals in one day — or one thousand for every year that the University has served the public — is no small task.
But that’s the goal, and it takes a lot of organization, time, money and hard-working volunteers: the key ingredients to this Saturday’s third annual “Community &...
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September 3, 2014
When walking into the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., the sight of nearly 145 congressional leaders, staffers and the surrounding community sitting on the floor eating a vegetarian meal would seem out of the ordinary.
But for the first time on Capitol Hill, the building played host...
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