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Lancaster Online.com: News : Leftovers fuel philanthropy

Lancaster Online.com: News : Leftovers fuel philanthropy: "Leftovers fuel philanthropy
F&M students search trash for charity

By Rebecca J. Ritzel
Intelligencer Journal
Published: May 06, 2005 9:44 AM EST

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Some ambitious Franklin & Marshall College students are turning an embarrassing rite of spring into a socially conscious rite of passage.

Each May, college campus Dumpsters overflow with clothes, furniture, appliances and other stuff students either don't want or can't carry home.


As a junior at F&M two years ago, Merlina Missimer rooted through trash piles and took choice items to the Salvation Army"

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