"As part of our community service activities for my professional business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi, a group of us went out and decided to help out UC [University City] Green and plant a tree.... It involved some physical activity and seemed like fun, and it was definitely for a good cause [for the victims of September 11]... I think it was a good way to make West Philadelphia little bit nicer."
"It was pretty simple--they wanted us to go to this training session but that wasn't really necessary 'cause they had all these people helping out on the block...."
"... It was just a... square space next to this tree, just a bunch of dirt, and they gave us a bunch of shovels and they gave us soil and so we had to dig out the dirt that was there into a space that could fit the tree... [put] in the tree... and then basically fill up the remaining space with the soil and the dirt and then put woodchips on top."
"I got to hang out with my fraternity brothers, and that's always a fun thing to do, and it got me physically active--I always like to be physically active.... It was nice to see a lot of people outside that early in the morning.... I'm used to getting up early, but no one else is around here I guess"
