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While some Duke students return home or choose pleasure trips during their brief fall break, a number of groups are spending their breaks in outreach and service activities:

• A student-led diversity immersion retreat program, Common Ground, will channel 56  students to Camp Caraway in Asheboro, N.C.  Sponsored by the Center for Race Relations, Common Ground, under the direction of 14 student facilitators, seeks to equip student leaders with the tools to actively and thoughtfully promote respect and understanding of others intheir communities through intense personal reflection, sustained dialogues, and community building.  This year's co-directors are Ben Adams '08 and Albert Osueke '08, and assistant co-directors are Olivia Singelmann '08 and Miho Kubagawa '07. 

• Members of the Duke Newman Catholic Student Center will volunteer at the Ronald McDonals House on Oct. 8 and will participate in Habitat for Humanity in Durham Oct. 9-10.  All volunteer activities begin at 1 p.m. (For more information, contact angela.jiang@duke.edu)

• Nine members of Duke's Project WILD are leading 23 Hillside High students from Durham on an alternative fall break trip beginning Oct. 5. The high school students are part of a program called AVID (Achievement Via Individual Determination), which seeks to help prepare youth to get into and succeed in college. Following an evening spent overnight on Duke's campus, the Duke and Hillside students will travel to Pisgah Forest in western North Carolina for hiking, camping and informal mentoring.  Learn more about Project Wild here.

• The president of the undergraduate group Environmental Alliance, Vanessa Barnett-Loro, will attend the North Carolina Climate Challenge Summit at UNC-Chapel Hill—a conference for networking, skills and issue trainings, and learning more about the potential for state-wide student collaboration and Energy Action's Campus Climate Challenge. Environmental Alliance will cover the $10 registration fee for anyone interested in attending and provide transportation. (For more information, contact: vbl3@duke.edu)