Hoos Helping the Homeless
By Marguerite McNeal | September 7, 2009For many University students, homelessness may bring to mind images of bums on the Corner, but fourth-year College student Garrett Trent has a different perspective.
For many University students, homelessness may bring to mind images of bums on the Corner, but fourth-year College student Garrett Trent has a different perspective.
What do a 50-year-old woman who sells rice in Togo and a group of University students have in common?
Flipping omelets and juggling potato cakes over the stove, Martha?s Caf
Standing atop a ladder, shuffling through one of the 11,000 songs on his iPod, artist Lincoln Perry spends the majority of his spring afternoons in Old Cabell Hall, painting the 11-panel mural ?The Student?s Progress.? His hands covered in charcoal, he carefully sketches the life story of a redheaded female University undergraduate student on the walls of the building?s lobby.