The temperatures dropped to their lowest in November the night junior Mandy Mahan and senior Richard Collins camped out in a cardboard box beside Frog Fountain. No, the two weren’t squatters, that night they were hunger activists, hoping to raise awareness at TCU about the plight of the homeless.

“I learned you get a lot hungrier the colder you get,” said Mahan, chair of the Hunger Week committee.

The “shanty town” Mahan and Collins constructed was part of the Hunger Week activities on campus, which also included a hunger jail, canned food drive, hunger chapel, a service project and the annual hunger banquet and silent auction. During its 18-year history, Hunger Week has raised more than $200,000 and donated many tons of food to local shelters. This year $7,000 and several truckloads of food went to the Tarrant Area Food Bank.