UWM honors Martin Luther King Jr. with service

More than 70 students, staff, alumni and family members from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee community brightened the halls of Rufus King International Middle School as part of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service project Jan. 16.

A couple staff members, 35 students and 36 alumni and friends took part in painting murals to brighten up the bare, undecorated walls of the school. Student volunteers were from the College of Nursing, the Muslim Student Association, UWM SHAC (Student Housing Administrative Council), Housing and the Black Cat Frisbee team.

“As an alumnus of an MPS school that looked like a prison when I went there, I cried tears of joy when I walked through the hallways, because if that was what I saw every day going to class I would have been way more successful and felt more inclined to believe in myself,” said Tien Wong, a UWM sophomore in microbiology who took part in the project. “I hope the students look at it and see that they are believed in.”