Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in response to Andrew Wright's articles concerning the disbursement of last year's "Rock for Shelter" funds to the St. James's Homeless Shelter, of Phillips Brooks House Association...
...disappointing that Wright reported that Mike Beys was "blackmailed," when in fact this allegation evolved from those who wished to use these funds raised for the homeless to sponsor another rock concert. As of October 1992, four months after the Rock for Shelter benefit concert, only $500 of the $3,500 that the U.C. had agreed to give to the homeless had been donated. Michael Beys, who was then treasurer of the U.C., was solicited, and as stated by former U.C. Chair Malcolm Heinicke, "Beys has authority as treasurer over that money," Christopher Davidson never blackmailed Michael Beys...
Both articles in The Crimson have ignored the use and purpose of the funds--to aid the homeless. The St. James Homeless Shelter is a transitional shelter whose objective is to assist homeless individuals in their search for jobs and housing while offering an extended stay, rather than provide a one-night solution to the problem of homelessness by offering short-term lodging...
Beys produced the minutes of the October 18, 1992 council meeting, which stated that "Beys announced...$3,500 went to the homeless shelters through corporate sponsorships...
Later episodes waver between heavy-handed (Stephen Lang hamming it up as an embittered homeless man) and limply appealing (Melanie Mayron having relationship troubles). Like all anthology shows, Tribeca will have its ups and downs. But it also offers the pleasures of unpredictability: the sight of thinking, autonomous human beings facing real-world problems with no week-to- week narrative obligations. Don't call that quality; call it excitement...