Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From daily tutoring programs to an undergraduate-coached basketball team, Harvard students spend a lot of time working with the high school students next-door. Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) deploys about 40 students regularly in its work with Rindge and Latin, and other groups such as the Housing and Neighborhood Development Program (HAND) send platoons of undergraduate volunteers...
...think there is enough interaction between Harvard students and Cambridge Rindge and Latin students," he says. "You walk past them in the Yard. It's like they have blinders on. It's as if Harvard doesn't care about them, and they don't care what happens at Harvard...
...Jackson's Rindge and Latin "little brother," 16-year-old Jorge L. Rodriguez agrees. "It sometimes seems as if Harvard is in its own world," he says...
...never thought that I could get so involved with Harvard," Rodriguez says. "My impression used to be that [Harvard students] didn't want to help the community and didn't have the time. Students would look at me funny when I walked around, campus and they would think, "This high school student shouldn't be here.' Now I sort of look up to them...
...every student CHANCE convinces about Harvard's commitment to the community, there are several others who continue to resent Harvard students...