Alternative Spring Break for Universtiy Students

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 12: Ebony McGhee-Pippin, a 20-year-old junior at Howard University, ties the shoe of Adam Perez Medina as a group of Howard University students spend their Spring Break volunteering at Elise Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in Washington, DC. Some college students are opting for alternative spring breaks. Instead of leisure and parties, they are volunteering at local schools and social services. McGhee-Pippin, a legal communications major and the team leader of Howard University's Spring Break volunteers, said, "Being a student at Howard, oftentimes I get so caught up in the culture of Howard and the Howard realm and the Howard bubble that I oftentimes forget the vitality of being hands-on in the surrounding community, building a bridge between the surrounding community and the Howard community." (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)