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| March 1999 Students use spring break Teams of 12 UM students each traveled at their own cost to four Utah and California locations to perform community service as part of the 1999 Alternative Spring Break, offered by UM's Volunteer Action Services March 13-21. Students learned about issues such as hunger, food systems and the environment by participating in short-term service projects at sites ranging from desert plateaus to coastal dunes. By traveling to a community outside Montana, organizers say, a student's awareness of social problems can be heightened. One UM group worked to restore the natural beauty and habitats in the Moab, Utah, area, by participating in efforts to control noxious weed populations and establish trail systems. Another group helped to restore coastal dunes in Arcata, Calif. Other UM students worked in a community garden with elementary school students in the Edible School Yard in Berkeley, Calif. In San Francisco a UM team helped to organize national displays of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Later in the week students spent two days at Project Open Hand, where they prepared and served meals to people living with HIV and AIDS.
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