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Discuss “Service projects for the holiday season”

This holiday season is one of service.

Carnegie Mellon students will do everything from dressing up as Santa’s Helpers to cooking spaghetti dinners to participate in the service projects open to the campus community before winter break.

“No one person needs to do every project. Deciding what you’d like to do and just giving what you can is key,” said M. Shernell Smith, housefellow of New House and the university’s community service coordinator.

Toys for Tots

For 19 first-years, deciding how to give back involved toys.

Today, students will able to see a horse-drawn sleigh on campus at noon in front of Hunt Library. The sleigh was sent by the U.S. Marine Corps to collect the toys gathered by students for the annual Toys for Tots...

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