Anytime you have students involved in trying to discourage drug use in the community ... it's very powerful. And she put a lot of time into it.

What we're really trying to do is build student activism and get students passionate about their community through arts and music, and other forms of outreach.

We're trying to give students an alternative community to plug in to, ... We're giving them alternative information. They just get snowballed this time of year with glossy literature.

I love working with community people and with agencies. These are organizations trying to do the best they can without a lot of resources and without the knowledge to know how to do it.

In Auburn, the Italian community is small but very enthusiastic, and many students enroll every term in our Italian classes, displaying an uneatable desire to learn the Italian language and culture.

There are links that the students are working on. The point is to bring them together in a community where they are seriously involved in the arts.