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...troubling issues. Harvard’s athletics atmosphere, while very competitive on the field, is less intense and isolated than that of other colleges. While athletes at other institutions live in special housing or in tight-knit groups off campus, Harvard athletes are spread throughout the college, whether they block together or not. The rape in question at Duke occurred at an off-campus party in a house rented by some lacrosse players, but high rents and police presence in Cambridge help make such situations, which are obviously subjected to less supervision than on-campus parties, less likely. Athletes...
...Under the model, “block captains” would seek out local leaders, find out how many people they knew who planned to come back, and, most importantly, urge former residents to return...
...You’re going to the people who are there and you’re reaching out to the people who are having reservations about coming back. … A lot of it is just saying there’s 22 people on our block, and seven of them are back, and you can come back...
...Saturday morning, some 25 residents trickled into the trailer to learn how to be block captains from students nearly half their age. One 42-year-old, Frederica A. Anderson, had been recruited by a student...
...Anderson has held off on finding a job until a time when the reconstruction is more complete, so block captain duties fit into her schedule...