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Joshua A. Smith '91, for one, leads a group of seven Harvard students who coach a Rindge and Latin basketball team consisting of 10 to 15 students, many of whom are Hispanic immigrants to the United States.
Robert Traver, program administrator for UTEP, says that 69 students are enrolled in this year's program. Between five and six observers and four student teachers are at Rindge and Latin this semester, he says.
"On a case-by-case basis, the reaction [to UTEP at Rindge and Latin] has been very favorable," Traver says. "The faculty enjoy the undergraduates because they are enthusiastic and provide fresh, stimulating ideas." Students who share material learned in their own courses particularly enhance class discussion at Rindge and...
Holdt recalls an incident last spring that reinforced her sense of how separate Harvard and its high school neighbor are. During a party at Adams House, a fight broke out between Harvard students and Rindge and Latin students. The Harvard police, she says, arrested only the Rindge and Latin students...
"The people who got the shit were Cambridge students. I felt very torn during the incident," says Holdt. "In their minds, they [the Harvard students] are these rich, snobby students in their town. I think those impressions will always exist."