If you are a frequent reader of the labels on your food, you may notice that many of the processed foods we love – Girl Scout cookies, chips and crackers, peanut butter, and even Nutella – contain palm oil. In…
Have you heard of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline? It’s the center of a five-year battle between energy groups and environmental activists that will soon be coming to an end as the government works toward a decision. We want you…
On Friday, March 28th, the Center for Community Action & Research and the Successful Learning Center hosted the first-ever Spring Fling dance on Pace’s Pleasantville campus. Over 50 members of the Pace community danced the night away in Gottesman with…
During the fourth and final day of Pace’s Alternative Spring Break, I and my team mates focused on dry-walling, mudding and painting, having already completed the sub-flooring. The replacement dry-walling covered a height of 14 inches, the level that the…
It was a surreal experience, entering the house my group worked on for the first time. The outside looked just fine, but as for the interior, the floor was full of holes and the walls had over a foot removed…
15 Pace students from two different campuses and various backgrounds coming together for a purpose: building homes for families affected by Hurricane Sandy. If you can think about the ending to the movie “The Breakfast Club”, you might get a…
Today was an experience unlike many others I have had throughout this trip. Early morning, I arrived at the home that I would be working in which was still at the initial rebuilding process. As soon as I walked in…
Three chicks and one wall I can easily say this has been the toughest day yet, emotionally and physically. Walking into a bare desolate house wasn’t quite the image I had illustrated in my head this morning. I had…
Day 3 Formally known as the “playground of the rich,” The Rockaways holds a strong identity. An Identity that only people who live, have family in, or have experienced time in The Rockaways would understand. Being that I have…
Today was the first day of volunteering with the Friends of Rockaway organization. The group I was with went to work on the house donated to Friends of Rockaway by the local temple. Throughout the day it was so amazing…
