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<p>The Luzerne County Community College Student Government Association (SGA) and Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society recently held the fifth annual hunger banquet at the college&#8217;s Food Pantry. A hunger banquet is designed to dramatize and expose the plight of the poor and hungry around the world and around the block. The simulation of the unequal distribution of food is a lottery in which donors purchase a meal ticket without knowing which type of meal they will receive. Fifteen percent received a &#8220;high income&#8221; meal of meat, sides and drinks and sat at a well-dressed table; 25 percent received a &#8220;middle income&#8221; meal of a sandwich, chips and a drink and sat at a plain cafeteria table; and 60 percent received a &#8220;low income&#8221; meal of soup, bread and water and sat on cardboard boxes on the floor. All donations benefited the LCCC Peter J. Lello Food Pantry. Shown at the LCCC Student Food Pantry are, from left &#8212; Jacqueline Tona, Exeter, Manna House, VOAPA, guest speaker; Mary Sullivan, Swoyersville, director, student life and athletics, LCCC; Brian Orbin, Harveys Lake, freshman representative, SGA; Zoey Spak, Plains, sophomore representative, SGA; Trish Dixon, Wilkes-Barre, part-time representative, SGA and president, PTK; Teddi Janosov, Sheatown, secretary, student life and athletics, LCCC; and Dagmar Frias, Wilkes-Barre, secretary, BASIC and vice president, leadership, PTK. Second row &#8212; Dr. Stephen Housenick, Nanticoke, associate professor, English and advisor, PTK, LCCC; Bethany Bowser, West Pittston, president, BASIC; Doug White, Plymouth, president, SGA; Brian Guerrero, Wilkes-Barre, vice president, SGA; Leslie Parker, Mountain Top, vice president, fellowship, PTK; and Angela Roman, Hanover Township, vice president, scholarship, PTK.</p><style>
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LCCC students hold annual hunger banquet