A different kind of homecoming activity

06 Oct 2011    

Deb Mullen, associate dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences, is faculty fellow to Sig Phi Epsilon UNL chapter. As a faculty fellow, Mullen advises the chapter’s unique learning community, teaching a university personal development class that all new members of Nebraska’s Sig Ep chapter must take.

This homecoming week, Sig Ep has taken a strikingly different approach to the traditional greek activities. About 50 men from Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity will spend two evenings (Oct. 4 and 5) at Kids Against Hunger, making up portions of a specially formulated rice-soy meal distributed by Kids Against Hunger to starving children and their families in more than 60 countries through orphanages, schools, hospitals and churches. The Lincoln Kids Against Hunger is a local affiliate of the Minnesota-based charity incorporated in 1999. The Lincoln affiliate launched in 2006 and has packaged more than 5 million meals. Through its national packaging operations, Kids Against Hunger can provide more than 50 million meals each year.

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