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When her instructor said UWM\u2019s Honors College was planning a service trip, Emma Cowen, a sophomore majoring in Spanish and global studies, leapt at the opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t care where we were going. I just knew I wanted to go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She was just one of 15 Honors College students who spent six days in New Orleans during UWM\u2019s spring break to do community service. Called the alternative spring break, the trip was organized by Benjamin Schneider, an Honors College senior lecturer, and Peter Sands, director the Honors College and an associate professor of English.<\/p>\n

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Honors College students serve during ‘alternative spring break’<\/div><\/div>\n

\u201cWe thought we could attract students to do something different for spring break and give back to a community that has need,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n

They partnered with HandsOn New Orleans<\/a>, an organization that creates and manages service projects and connects volunteers to service opportunities.<\/p>\n

On the first service day, the UWM group travelled to the Lower Ninth Ward, an area that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Only about 37 percent of households returned to the area after the hurricane. There aren\u2019t any grocery stores or supermarkets in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Sands, Schneider and the students worked on a community garden, where they built a fence and cleared overgrown vegetation from a nearby vacant lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually got to see the impact that the work made,\u201d Cowen said. \u201cWe met and talked to people who directly benefited from the work we were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the following two days, the group went to New Orleans East, where they worked to refurbish and paint a charter school\u2019s fitness room.<\/p>\n

In addition to serving the community, the students took walking tours of iconic New Orleans neighborhoods such as Treme, sampled foods like beignets and visited the city\u2019s historic Saint Louis Cemetery to see the graves of notable people including Robert Brown Elliott, who was one of the first African-Americans to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted the students to be able to connect what they do in the classroom, like studying literature and film, with the world and places like New Orleans that appear in those works,\u201d Sands said.<\/p>\n

He also said he wanted to show high-achieving students that classroom success is only one component, and that there are people working with organizations like HandsOn New Orleans who are using their college education to fill needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could see how special the work we were doing was to other people,\u201d Cowen said. \u201cIt felt like we had power to make change in a community that isn\u2019t getting a lot of attention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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