Students helping others at Thanksgiving

The Modlin Center Box Office is often asked for assistance by various groups on campus. Our services are requested to sell tickets to big concerts and events presented around campus by the Campus Activities Board, student theatre productions in Cousins Studio Theatre, annual Family Weekend a cappella concerts and so on.

One group we've always assisted is the National Student Partnership (NSP), a group that recruits and trains VCU/UR volunteers to work one-on-one with low-income community members in obtaining economic stability. Each November, NSP hosts an a cappella concert in the University of Richmond's Cannon Memorial Chapel. Again this year, the concert (November 13 from 7-9 pm) will feature the four University of Richmond a cappella groups--Choeur du Roi, The Octaves, Off the Cuff and the Sirens. This year, Virginia Commonwealth University's first co-ed a cappella group, The Notochords, will also be featured.

Here's the good part: all proceeds raised from ticket sales and donations will help provide full Thanksgiving meals to NSP clients and their family members. Tickets are only $3 or 3 canned goods. Such a deal! Tickets will be available in advance at a table in UR's Tyler Haynes Commons next week (Nov. 10-13) or at the door. I hope you can come out and support NSP and their wonderful student volunteers--students who give so much of their time in support of others.