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...initiative, pioneered by seniors Aaron Byrd and Jonathan Ardrey last spring, distributed over 900 tickets to inner-city football and tutoring programs this weekend in just its first week...
...They are more your inner-city kids without a doubt,” Byrd said. “We don’t so much target the less privileged. It just turns out that a lot of our mentoring and tutoring programs on campus are naturally targeted at the underprivileged kids, the kids that go to high schools, middle schools that have less quality teachers...
...Byrd said Saturday that, despite the delay, a sizeable number of the campus extracurriculars—70 percent, by his estimate—he hopes to partner with have not yet fully gotten underway, and he expects increased participation in the weeks to come...
...It’s hard to tell,” Byrd said, “especially with Harvard mentors and tutors not being in their programs yet. It’s hard to tell who is going to show...
With an open-ended promise of free tickets so long as they were available from the athletics department, Spectacle of Soul moved away from handing out tickets at off-site events in the hopes of luring targeted groups to Allston. Instead, Byrd said, relevant parties were notified of tickets’ availability and asked to confirm, before picking up passes at Harvard Stadium...