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In the files of you can't make this shit up (no one would ever believe you).
So I've been poking around on the Web site for my college alumni news (truthfully, looking for more info about Miss Annetta's death) and I came across a fairly unique service project happening at the college.
My college is big into service, volunteerism and giving back to the community. There are a lot of on-campus houses and parts of dorms set aside for people who group together to do something together for the community. These are all student run and student governed. One house was the arts house (the house I lived in for three years did arts outreach on campus and off, volunteering in various ways), one house had mentors for a specific social program (my first year roommate was in the house that mentored teens who got pregnant for a year her sophomore year). It was a way of getting out of the dorms when I was there, and avoiding the sections (local sororities and fraternities were called "sections"). Now it has been over fifteen years since I was in college, but things have not changed that much.
I came across an article about seven guys (all class of '11) who crochet hats for three charities (a homeless shelter and two others). They meet twice a week for a few hours at a time (sometimes with some sporting event on the television in the back ground) and they crochet together. They say they each try to make one to two hats a week, depending on difficulty (ear flaps, pompoms, and color changes all add difficulty). They call their crochet circle the Brochet Society. Because they are all men. Who crochet. Together. They were able to turn this into all living together in one of the on campus houses.
Um, yes, I kind of love this. It is like fuzzy, live fanfic (yes, I immediately thought of Hermione).
So I've been poking around on the Web site for my college alumni news (truthfully, looking for more info about Miss Annetta's death) and I came across a fairly unique service project happening at the college.
My college is big into service, volunteerism and giving back to the community. There are a lot of on-campus houses and parts of dorms set aside for people who group together to do something together for the community. These are all student run and student governed. One house was the arts house (the house I lived in for three years did arts outreach on campus and off, volunteering in various ways), one house had mentors for a specific social program (my first year roommate was in the house that mentored teens who got pregnant for a year her sophomore year). It was a way of getting out of the dorms when I was there, and avoiding the sections (local sororities and fraternities were called "sections"). Now it has been over fifteen years since I was in college, but things have not changed that much.
I came across an article about seven guys (all class of '11) who crochet hats for three charities (a homeless shelter and two others). They meet twice a week for a few hours at a time (sometimes with some sporting event on the television in the back ground) and they crochet together. They say they each try to make one to two hats a week, depending on difficulty (ear flaps, pompoms, and color changes all add difficulty). They call their crochet circle the Brochet Society. Because they are all men. Who crochet. Together. They were able to turn this into all living together in one of the on campus houses.
Um, yes, I kind of love this. It is like fuzzy, live fanfic (yes, I immediately thought of Hermione).