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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University September 12, 2005 | Vol. 35 No. 2
 
Involved in Baltimore

Working with Students Sharing Coalition, J.R. Yarbrough leads a group through Remington to map the community and clean trash. Annie Lee, left, takes notes.
PHOTO BY HIPS / WILL KIRK

The city of Baltimore got a chance to meet the class of 2009 — and vice versa — on Sept. 7, when more than 400 of the newest Johns Hopkins students ventured off campus for Involved, a day of service at 21 locales, most of them near the Homewood campus.

Founded six years ago by an undergraduate, the annual service day seeks to get freshmen engaged with community volunteer projects for all four years of their education.

At Hampden Elementary School, in cooperation with the Mayor's Office's Believe in Our Schools campaign, JHU students helped turn a parking lot into a playground, and at Project PLASE — People Lacking Ample Shelter and Employment — other students learned about the group's mission and helped out in some of its homeless shelters.

Other projects included cleaning up parts of Leakin Park, a project coordinated by Civic Works; assembling furniture and beautifying the grounds at Barclay Elementary School; and working with the Parks & People Foundation on greening projects in the Barclay neighborhood.

The Involved program is overseen by the university's Center for Social Concern. This year's chair was Malka Jampol, a senior political science major from Newton, Mass. Jampol said that she applied for the position because she likes volunteering and had a great experience during her own freshmen day of service. "I also felt I had not done much for the local community since arriving here as a freshmen, only for the university's community," she said, "and I wanted to make sure I left some sort of positive lasting impression before I graduated."

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