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...others oppose the plan, arguing that the volcano has provided them with an unprecedented opportunity to watch unhindered regeneration. Says Cliff Dahm, a biologist at the University of New Mexico: "It would be foolish to short-circuit nature's experiment...
...John J. Dahm...
...city's derelicts. Waking at dawn, they warmed up in the Park Street subway station, washed their dirty faces in the Trailways bus terminal, then looked for work at a day-labor hiring hall. In fact, there was only one thing that separated Frank Huszar and Peter Dahm from the mob of down-and-outers in the hall. The others were there out of necessity; Huszar and Dahm were students in a course in urban problems...
Huszar and Dahm, together with nine other students from Minnesota's Mankato State College, were dropped off on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse early Monday morning. They were equipped with $2 apiece and their Social Security cards. With that alone, they were supposed to live for a week to learn how derelicts and impoverished immigrants in the inner city manage to survive. "This is the harshest type of experience a person can go through in the city, and that's exactly why I assigned it to them," explains H. Roger Smith, associate professor of urban studies...
Inalienable Snobbery. One immediate problem that faced Smith's Plungers was genuine derelicts, who proved that snobbery is inalienable to human nature. "I'd run into a wino," recalls Peter Dahm, "and say, 'Man, I need a place to crash. I need some bread. Where can I cop some work?' The language would really turn him off. It's the language of street kids, and the real down-and-outer doesn't speak it. In general, they didn't appreciate me at all. But at least they stopped asking me for money." Frank...