STEPHEN BORUTTA OF HENDRIX COLLEGE, a sophomore on the men's track and field team from Wenham, Mass., has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Male Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending April 24, 2011.

Borutta, as part of his Odyssey Project at Hendrix, will be taking a cross-country trip in a converted bus that runs on straight vegetable oil for Ecogrease Lightning, a non-profit agency with a goal of promoting environmentally sustainable lifestyles through education and demonstration. He and four other college sophomores will stop at cities from Maine to California doing service work and giving environmental education presentations.

“When this project is through we will have done at least 700 hours of volunteering, held seven educational experiences, travelled 10,000 miles, lived on a bus for seven weeks, taught hundreds of people how to be more environmentally aware, raised awareness for many service organizations, and made a difference in communities all over the United States,” Borutta said.