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Article: IS THIS ANY WAY TO SPEND SPRING BREAK? STUDENTS GOING WILD FOR CHARITY WORK DURING A BREAK FROM SCHOOL.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- March 30, 2006
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Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Staff Writer
Late at night on certain cable channels, commercials for "Girls Gone Wild" videos show 20-somethings in the depths of debauched revelry, feeding a fear that American youth are falling off a moral precipice.
For a more optimistic view, check out "The Amazing Break," an MTV documentary that chronicled trips taken earlier this month by scores of college students who chose to take what's known as an alternative spring break, a week away from classes doing something to make the world a better place. It's the antithesis of the vacations those videos portray: seven sun-and-sand days of, at best, laziness and, at worst, ...