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Vol XXXIII No. 38

Friday, October 15, 1999

Building tradition in the backwoods

      Early Sunday morning, while much of campus is sleeping, 164 Notre Dame and Saint Mary's students will stumble out of bed and make their way to the Stepan Center parking lot. From there, they will head for the hills of Appalachia to undertake a week-long service learning project that has become something of a tradition. Upon arriving at their destination — one of 15 sites in Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky ... [more]
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