Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Food Drive at UA to Include Hunger Banquet

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama Community Service Center and Bama Dining are sponsoring a Hunger Banquet on Monday, Nov. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in Burke Dining Hall as part of the annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive competition.

The Hunger Banquet is based on an Oxfam program and gives students a firsthand look at food inequality. The goal of the banquet is to help students achieve a better understanding of today’s hunger problems throughout the world.

Frannie James of the UA Honors College will facilitate the banquet, and a panel of Tuscaloosa residents will speak at the event. Students who wish to attend should reserve their seats at hungerbanquetrsvp@gmail.com.

In addition, the CSC and the Student Government Association recently sponsored the CanFormation (canned food design) competition during Homecoming Week with the food donated to Beat Auburn Beat Hunger.

The UA chapter of Engineers Without Borders won the Canformation first prize with their design of a movable can opener blade created with more than 500 canned goods and 21 pasta boxes. Kris Harbin was the main designer and organizer for the team, and students Blake Whitley, Norm Pelak, Brian Madyda, Cory McInvale and Amy Simmons helped to construct the winning formation.

Phi Mu won second place in the competition, and Alpha Phi took third place. Other UA organizations that participated include Delta Zeta, the Capstone College of Nursing, The Hillel Foundation, Kappa Alpha Theta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Delta Pi, Beta Theta Pi, the American Red Cross, Zeta Tau Alpha, Alpha Omicron Pi, the MBA Association and the Mallet Assembly.

For more information about the Engineers Without Borders CanFormation entry, contact Kris Harbin at 205/292-9368 or kbharbin@crimson.ua.edu.

For more information about the hunger banquet and other CSC events, contact Hillary Moore at 704/975-8524 or hdmoore@crimson.ua.edu.

The Community Service Center’s mission is to educate students for service advocacy and leadership, civic responsibility and lifelong volunteerism by increasing awareness of community needs, resources and opportunities for social problem solving. The Community Service Center and UA students were responsible for more than 360,000 hours of service last year in local communities, our state, across the nation and abroad.