Morgan Jones

Helping a young man during his final moments of life is an experience few people can even imagine. But for three University nursing students, it’s a memory they will never forget.

“I’m not glad it happened, but I am glad I was there because it was an experience that I learned from,” said Brooke Saddler, who was one of the three present at a fatal car accident. “I was there for someone’s last breath, last time of their life and I am just glad I was able to support and comfort him.”

Helping fight against hunger in the community, accounting major Douglas Brown takes time out of his active graduate student schedule to volunteer for the East Texas Food Bank.

With about 428,000 East Texans at-risk of hunger, the East Texas Food Bank distributed 18 million pounds of food last year and today continues to help the growing need with the steady effort by the daily workers and numerous volunteers, according to the organization’s records.

Senior and I Am Second president Kinsey Martin spent the weekend of Nov. 5 locked behind the bars of a Dallas area prison. Martin wasn’t serving time as a criminal, but as a minister to the inmates as part of Bill Glass’ company and I Am Second Locked Up Ministry.

Since this was Martin’s third year to participate in the event, he said he knew to expect nervous feelings and numbing sad stories of the convicted felons.

Opening a door, ascending a hill and reaching a second-floor classroom may seem like simple tasks to most University students.

But for Tegan Lattimer, senior English major, and Michael McEntire, sophomore English major, these tasks are daily challenges due to cerebral palsy (CP), a condition that limits mobility.