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Media Credit: Lauren Stoxen Freshman Ainsley Van Dyck (right) and senior Amy Hammer (left) rake leaves and collect garbage at Hunger Clean Up Saturday. [Click to enlarge]

• Hunger Clean Up took place Saturday


• Approximately 1,700 students participated


• Students formed teams with their friends, floormates or fellow members of student organizations


• Approximately 50 volunteers found themselves in the middle of a logistical issue when they were turned away by a site

On Saturday morning, a rare scene unfolded on Westowne Mall — almost 1,700 college students were awake and functioning at 8. With the help of free Mountain Dew, these students waited to board buses transporting them to 48 Hunger Clean Up work sites.

Hunger Clean Up, Marquette's largest annual one-day service project, focuses on performing service in and around the Milwaukee community. Students form teams of approximately 10 to 15 people and fundraise in the form of small "pledges" for the service they will perform on the day of the event.

"It was definitely hard to wake up this early on a Saturday morning," said Katie O'Meara, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences. "I don't even have classes this early."

Even at the early morning hour, O'Meara and other residents of her floor in Straz Tower enthusiastically picked up trash in a neighborhood in the south side of Milwaukee.

"It was nice because you could actually see how you were helping," O'Meara said. "You could look back down the street and know that you had cleaned it, which was definitely a good feeling."

Many siblings also came out for the cause because Hunger Clean Up coincides with Lil' Sibs Weekend, an annual weekend event with planned activities where students' younger siblings come visit Marquette.

Sara Paulus, a freshman in the College of Health Sciences, attended the event with her 9-year-old sister Alyssa.

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Published: 4/22/08 Section: News

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