Go back to your university and find a way to volunteer services to the athletic department.

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"It's been a very, very serious and critical situation, " said John David, a West Virginia University Institute of Technology professor and volunteer with the South Appalachian Labor School who has been working in Fayette County.

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Closer to home, volunteer scuba enthusiasts in Sydney work alongside university scientists to replant crayweed, a sea plant that serves as habitat for abalone, lobsters and other fish.

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At the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, for example, MBA students mentor teenagers, volunteer at soup kitchens or help the elderly.

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Others take a tax-deductible working vacation in which they volunteer to do work under the sponsorship of a university or other tax-exempt group.

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Volunteer Beth McMillan, a field geologist and professor at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, worked in Pearl River County, Mississippi, a couple of weeks after the storm.

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One volunteer coach that day, Bubba Thompson, head track coach at University of Texas, takes responsibility for putting Mr. Tyson in the anchor spot.

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The deceased was a recent magna cum laude graduate from an excellent university, but rather than pursue a career he chose to be a full-time volunteer for the needy (a passion of his since elementary school).

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Nations, a volunteer for the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office, has spent a week at Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton campus trying to get students to register as part of a county vote drive.

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