Ten students from Loyola Marymount University spent a week this month with San Joaquin Valley farmworkers, learning about the history of the rural labor movement and organizing a food and clothing drive for out-of-work field hands. The program -- a partnership between Loyola Marymount and the Dolores Huerta Foundation, a Bakersfield-based nonprofit named for the co-founder of the United Farm Workers union -- is among a growing number of 'alternative' spring breaks in which students skip the boozy revelry in favor of volunteer work.
See "Students Spend Break With Farmworkers", Associated Press, The New York Times, March 13, 2007