Hands On is an online magazine created by students of North Park University in Chicago. Hands On is designed to educate, motivate, and empower our generation to be advocates for social action. As a branch of University Ministries, Hands On hopes to interface the University’s outreach programs with real issues affecting our local, national, and global community. For more information, or if you would like to join our mailing list to receive announcements of new issues, please email us.

Joshua Elliot

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Baltimore, Maryland

Senior

Communications, focus on media

Basketball, writing

Sea food

Lemonade


Urban youth having same opportunities as others, also, the immigration issue in the U.S.

Andy Meyer

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Grand Rapids MI

Alumni

Mathematics, Education, Biblical and Theological Studies

Crosswords and safe, urban bike riding.

Chicago style hot dog.

RC cola

Non-fiction with the fictional exceptions: "My name is Asher Lev" and "A Prayer for Owen Meany".

That, my friend, is a very tricky question.

Kelly Minta

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Palatine, Il

4th year

Advertising

Running, reading, making collages

Lou Malnati's thin crust, topped with tomatoes

Diet coke out the can


The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham

Underfunded and overmanaged education systems

Ingrid Johnson

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Chicago, IL

3rd and final at NPTS

Procrastination (and a MATS/MMNA dual degree)

Gardening, cooking and baking, running, paddling, biking

Fair trade dark chocolate

French Roast coffee, strong and black

Besides anything by Wendell Berry, The Narnia Chronicles

Environmental degradation and the human suffering it causes

 

 

Rich Johnson

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Chicago

37th

Communications (ba) Christianity and contemporary culture (ma)

Reading, hiking, running, politics

Rice

Green tea


Of all time- to kill a mockingbird (currently--3 cups of tea)

Racism