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The Student Senate is holding a Town Hall meeting at 5 p.m. today at GroundZero Coffeehouse. Anyone is encouraged to attend to voice opinions and ask questions of USC student leaders.
For more information, call Adam Levine at (213) 740-5620.
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Transportation: Costs for street parking on campus cheaper; more escorts on streets at night
By AMANDA CARACCI
Staff Writer
Parking meter prices have decreased and the Campus Cruiser program is expanding in order to make campus transportation systems more convenient for students, said Brian d’Autremont, director of Transportation Services.
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Initially, the collection drive started informally and without a specific charity, said Andy Grubb, a resident advisor at Birnkrant and a senior majoring in astronomy. An original group of four USC students worked with Harding and Grubb.
In the beginning, they had a small collection for clothes but this grew to include food, toiletries and money from donated Flex-plan dollars, Grubb said.
*We talked to the pharmacy, the bookstore and outside vendors to volunteer money and products to help,’ he said.
'I’ve been pretty surprised by all the donations,’ said Troy Baccus, one of the four students and a freshman majoring in public policy and management. “One stu-
damaged in all sorts of ways,* said Des Harding, a graduate student in English.
“(It) feels like an industrious city of hope,* Harding said of the Midnight Mission, which he visited last month to arrange donations made by USC students. The mission has existed for more than 75 years in the Sldd Row district of downtown Los Angeles.
Harding is a resident coordinator at Birnkrant Residence Hall, where he organized a group of students living in Birnkrant to volunteer for a collection drive to benefit the mission.
He hopes that this drive will provide for those less fortunate while making it a rewarding experience for USC students looking for an outlet for community connection.
Charity: Residents of Birnkrant participate in collection drive to help homeless in downtown
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freshman public policy and management
By PETER ZUCKERMAN
Staff Writer
In the Midnight Mission, an independent non-denominational shelter on Skid Row, there is an energy and bustle of people taking care of those desperate to escape the poverty of the streets.
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