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Discuss “Students experience "alternate" breaks”

When Nadine Lippa blew her nose last week, it wasn't because she was upset for the end of spring break. Congested after cleaning the bathroom ceiling in an Appalachian home, the first-year materials science engineering major experienced something unexpected when she cleared her nasal passages.

"My nose expelled bat droppings," she said.

Lippa's batty experience occurred while helping to renovate a home in McDowell County, West Virginia last week as part of the Alternative Spring Break Experience (ASBE). M. Shernell Smith, coordinator of student development and housefellow for New House, took six students to the country's fifth poorest county to give service where they felt it was sorely needed.

Working on the opposite side of Smith's office...

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