{"id":8693,"date":"2011-03-23T08:35:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T13:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2011-03-23T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T19:14:30","slug":"students-spend-spring-break-week-volunteering-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/03\/23\/students-spend-spring-break-week-volunteering-in-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Students spend spring break week volunteering in Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment8695\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment8695\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8695\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2011\/03\/ASB_DC1_0-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Arthika Chandramohan (SPH\u201911) (from left), Karen Contador (SAR\u201914), Allison Thomasseau (COM\u201914), Nicholas Pantages (CAS\u201914), Julie Frey (CAS\u201911, COM\u201911), Anna Carson (CAS\u201914), and Hayley West (CGS\u201912) at Food and Friends. Photos by Dennis Drenner\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2011\/03\/ASB_DC1_0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2011\/03\/ASB_DC1_0.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment8695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthika Chandramohan (SPH\u201911) (from left), Karen Contador (SAR\u201914), Allison Thomasseau (COM\u201914), Nicholas Pantages (CAS\u201914), Julie Frey (CAS\u201911, COM\u201911), Anna Carson (CAS\u201914), and Hayley West (CGS\u201912) at Food and Friends. Photos by Dennis Drenner<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\">BU Today<\/a> tagged along with a group of ten chaperones, students and coordinators  who spent their week off from classes volunteering at two organizations  in Washington D.C via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csc\/\">BU Community Service Center<\/a> Alternative Spring Break <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csc\/opportunities\/community-service-center-programs\/asb\/\">program<\/a>.\u00a0  In its 24th year, the program coordinated more than 300 students last  week to volunteer with 36 organizations around the country, rebuilding  homes, assisting at  animal shelters, working at food banks and volunteering in needy  communities.\u00a0 Student journalist Allison Thomasseau (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\">COM<\/a>\u201914) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/12557\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>We had just gotten into our 12-person van for the eight-hour drive to Washington, D.C., where we were headed for Alternative Spring Break, when program coordinator Julie Frey exclaimed, \u201cYOLO!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not wanting to admit my ignorance of the phrase, I waited for Sam Smith (COM\u201913), the other program coordinator, to ask what the phrase meant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt stands for you only live once\u2014YOLO,\u201d said Frey (COM\u201911, CAS\u201911).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/12557\">Read More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\ntweetmeme_url = 'http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/03\/23\/students-spend-spring-break-week-volunteering-in-washington-d-c\/';\r\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>  <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/03\/23\/students-spend-spring-break-week-volunteering-in-washington-d-c\/E&amp;layout=box_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=50&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=65\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;width:50px;height:65px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Today tagged along with a group of ten chaperones, students and coordinators who spent their week off from classes volunteering at two organizations in Washington D.C via the BU Community Service Center Alternative Spring Break program.\u00a0 In its 24th year, the program coordinated more than 300 students last week to volunteer with 36 organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5257,4493],"tags":[4603,4605,1624,4604,5406,5407,1973],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8712,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions\/8712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}