Brothers,
On Saturday the 21st, we split into three groups and headed off to the three Courage Connection properties in the Urbana-Champaign area. There were a number of houses in Champaign, an administrative building in Urbana, and a retail store in Urbana. At the Champaign property, we did general cleaning and maintenance for the houses and their yards. Brothers cleaned all the windows, inside and out; picked up plastic, cigarette butts and other trash lying about; swept the patios and porches; cleaned play equipment and the sides of the houses; as… 
Alum Feels Double the Impact from Hurricane Harvey
From Faustino Cisneros Jr. ’17 (Beta-Gamma Chapter, Lamar University)
Hurricane Harvey was a devastating experience for my family and me. It was our first experience with a flood of this magnitude. We had been through hurricanes before but not nearly as damaging as this one. At first, we did not pay much attention to it since in our past experiences hurricanes caused minimal damages and there was no need to evacuate. With Harvey, the day before it hit, water was already about six inches high and it had already covered our entire front and back yard.
