Reading, Pa.- The Albright College Oxfam America Club will present a Hunger Banquet on Thursday, November 18, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. in North Hall Room A202. This event is open to Albright students, faculty and staff.

A Hunger Banquet is a realistic reenactment of how our world eats, how people cope with their “lot” in life and how intricately connected each country’s economy is to the plight of lower socio-economic individuals.  This interactive session will simulate what would happen if the world’s population were shrunk down to just 50 people.  Attendees will be divided into classes based on a lottery.  Lower classes will sit on the floor and eat rice, middle class will have seats and eat bread and rice while the upper class will eat a normal meal at a table.

The banquet will conclude with a letter-writing campaign to local members of Congress in support of the International Violence Against Women Act.

For more information contact the College Relations and Marketing Office at 610-921-7526. North Hall is located at 13th and Rockland Streets on the campus of Albright College, Reading.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Two-thirds of students graduate with dual/individualized majors in more than 200 different combinations. Albright enrolls about 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.