Media Coverage

21 April 2008

University of Mary Washington students who lived on $2 a day last week wondered whether they were competing with homeless people for food.

After a macroeconomics class, some went Dumpster-diving for bagels at the Park & Shop retail center on the U.S. 1 Bypass. Others retrieved donuts behind a nearby Dunkin' Donuts. And a professor begged for coffee on a daily basis.

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7 April 2007

A few University of Mary Washington students went "Dumpster diving" this week for stale bagels.

One evening, they gathered pieces of cardboard behind a Fredericksburg shopping center to build a "shanty town" near the campus's main walkway.

They also snagged stakes from a construction site to erect a makeshift tent for their little village.

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