Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of their tormentors, the homeless say, are Harvard students...
Hayman says he thinks Harvard's insular nature contributes to students' ignorance of the homeless. "Harvard students have been conditioned in classes to think of people as less intelligent then they are," he says. 'If [I] say 'Hi', they don't say 'Hi' back...
Levon Hailey, a panhandler on Church Street, says that although some Harvard students are kind, others shun the homeless because of their upperclass backgrounds...
Many of the homeless people interviewed say pedestrians who do not have money should respectfully decline a panhandlers' request...
...Square's homeless people say that while life is hard for all, it's especially hard for homeless who are minorities. Johnson, who is Black, says he experiences racism everyday...