Students Spend Break Rebuilding Gulf Coast

College Students Ditch Booze, Beaches and Debauchery to Spend Spring Break Rebuilding Gulf Coast
Students Spend Break Rebuilding Gulf Coast

By STACEY PLAISANCE

NEW ORLEANS Mar 17, 2006 (AP)— Some of the college students flocking to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast for spring break are not coming for the beaches, the booze or the all-night debauchery. But they are getting hot and sweaty nonetheless.

Instead of stripping down to bathing suits and sunglasses, thousands of young people from across the country are putting on coveralls and goggles and gutting hurricane-blighted houses, repairing roofs and hauling away storm debris.

"I figured this is one of the rare times I'll get to do something like this, to really help somebody," said Danielle VanEaton, a freshman at the University of Iowa who spent the first day of her first college spring break gutting a flooded home in New Orleans' hard-hit Ninth Ward.
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