12 hours ago
The Things College Students Leave Behind
To the Editor:
Re 'As College Students Move Out, Scavengers Get Ready to Cash In' (front page, June 9):
The person who searched the trash room of her apartment building to find tons of treasures thrown out by Duke University students at the end of the semester says, 'It feels wrong for this much stuff to have been thrown out.'
Considering that she estimates the goods to have originally retailed for $6,600 in total, she and her friends think they should put together a business plan: 'I do think there's a lot of money to be made.'
I have a better idea: As they prepare to leave for the summer, why don't college students themselves band together into a volunteer unit to collect and distribute the goods to charities that help the homeless and other people in need?
High school students have clocked so many volunteer hours pumping up their résumés to get into the college of their choice. It shouldn't stop once they enroll or graduate.
Cathy BernardNew York
To the Editor:
'As College Students Move Out, Scavengers Get Ready to Cash In' really resonated with me.
For almost 40 years my wife and I owned six houses in Providence that had 15 apartments that we rented mostly to students at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design.
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