Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Hour after hour, box by box, and bag by bag, the team of studentstransferred the thousands of food items warehoused in a second-floorconference room at the Fletcher Library on Arizona StateUniversity's West campus. Employing techniques they had developedover the six weeks of a campus-wide food drive, they formed a chain,tossing food back from the conference room to a waiting cart, thendown an elevator, to a 16-foot rental truck waiting at the libraryloading dock. There, another student team, most sweating profuselyin the 95 degrees of a spring day in Phoenix, rolled the items intothe truck and stacked them. Ultimately, the truck would sag underthe weight of tens of thousands of food items beginning the firstleg of a journey to a community center that serves hot lunches tochildren in some of the poorest shantytown neighborhoods of Nogales,Mexico.The authors would like tothank for their support and guidance in the project BarbaraTinsley, Ila Abernathy, Esther Torres, Francisco Trujillo, JessiPederson, Lisa Steenson, Emily Taylor, and Esmeralda Gonzalez;and for their helpful comments the anonymous referees for thisjournal.