<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2019/gio-roper-spring-break.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>03/29/2019</pubDate><title>University of New Haven Senior Says Alternative Spring Break Program was ‘Empowering’</title><description>Gio Roper ’19, a psychology major, was one of more than 30 students who participated in the University of New Haven’s Alternative Spring Break program, which enabled students to spend their break serving the local community while building leadership and teambuilding skills.</description><hide-description/><author>Gio Roper ’19</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>March 29, 2019</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/arts-sciences/news/blog/2019/gio-roper-group.jpg" alt="Image of Gio Roper ’19"/></image><image-caption>Gio Roper ’19 (right) worked with Haven’s Harvest over spring break as part of the University’s Alternative Spring Break program.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2019</tag></tags></item>