News
As everyone is fully
aware Haiti has suffered tremendously by
a devastating earthquake. The world im-
‘mediately has come to a standstill and
doing everything in its power to help out
this third world country. According to
recent polls from Google, the world has
raised over 21 million dollars. But what-
‘ever happens to helping New Orleans.
From recent stats from the CNN Fortune
‘the country has accumulated close to 200
billion dollars, and majority of it only
went towards corporate buildings and
tourist attractions. What about the New
Orleans people? What about those who
need the help the most? As everyone
drops their agenda’s to help out Haiti the
New Orleans funds are being pushed
Tragedy in Haiti
aside and help is lacking. Thanks to re-
cent news from Penn State University
Mont Alto a student as resurrected a
group called ASB in which students
pledge to alternate their spring break into
out building homes and fixing up shelters
for those families in need. Kelsey Wash-
ington, a sophomore at Penn State is the
president of this group. Though the group
was resurrected the time span for the
money to be raised to travel down was
unable to be obtained. With that being
said that did not bring down Kelsey nor
did it bring down her group members.
The group has informed the Penn State
network that though they will not be at-
Spring 2010
still raise money and fund raisers and
send the profits down to a charitable or-
ganization so that the money will be put
to good use in New Orleans. The ASB
group has a number of events soon to
come for the Penn State University Mont
Alto students to enjoy. One in particular
coming soon is the “So you think you got
Style” pageant, which gives students an
opportunity to show off their style and
intellectual abilities and prove their style
is unique, original, and number one.
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