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...public image is only calcified every time CitySteppers enter any campus dining hall, chanting that notoriously nagging cheer and stomping their bright red shoes. And when the troupe members talk about their largest commitment, they like to emphasize it offers a special kind of niche. “CityStep is unique in a lot of ways,” says Weidman, “but a big one is the amount of cohesion and community felt among company members...
...course, CityStep isn’t the only service group—or extracurricular club, for that matter—to forge bonds as an after-effect of its institutional borders. It’s just one of the best at advertising that...
...course people are having a good time and doing their service.” In particular, Kpaduwa mentions the Freshman Urban Program (FUP), run under PBHA’s watch. Though it attracts a different kind of Harvardian, in many ways FUP is the alternative set’s CityStep; notoriously incestuous, famously social, FUPpers have a bond the rest of us will just never understand...
...CityStep offers the same kind of valuable community work to which FUPpers probably would have gravitated even if service weren’t institutionalized in a broad-reaching organization like PBHA...
...members interviewed by FM said the social-club side of CityStep wouldn’t be so powerful if it weren’t matched by the group’s service commitment...