Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short of the army; throw in different academic schedules, different extracurricular activities and different study habits, and you have a diversity of sleep cycles that would make the admissions office proud. At 2:30 a.m. on any weeknight, there are Harvard students in the University Lutheran Church, overseeing the homeless shelter, at The Crimson putting the finishing touches on the next day's paper, in the Grays basement staffing Room 13, in the Science Center computer labs perfecting programs and, from Mather to Pforzheimer, in their rooms cranking out essays under the glare of a halogen lamp...
...action quoting and using Scripture. Let him concentrate on a chapter or two--Isaiah 58 would do--and get "Bible believers" to talk not about trivia such as school-prayer amendments and the creche on the courthouse lawn. The prophets teach us to put our religious energies into the homeless, our relatives in need and the poor in general...
...Vietnam which we were so loathe to call a war is even more removed from our lives here. We think of Vietnam in terms of the memorial in Washington--that black wall eulogizing all the dead soldiers. We think of Vietnam when we see homeless vets on the street asking for some change or a meal. We think of Vietnam when we see an Oliver Stone film...
...student volunteers of Phillips Brooks House Association having a positive effect? Ask the 300 homeless men, women and children who get their meals every week from the PBHA soup kitchen program. Ask the folks who have a roof over their heads and a dry place to sleep because of the volunteers at PBHA's University Lutheran Church Shelter. Ask the kids of the Mission Hill After School Program who have a safe alternative place to go after school--other than the inner city streets. Ask the more than 10,000 men, women and children of PBHA's 50 different programs...
What do students get out of the volunteer experience? Well, there's laughter shared, lessons learned and lifelong friends made. I've come to know a homeless gentlemen through the soup kitchen program that I run who has taught me more over the past four years than any of my Harvard professors. One night he said to me, "You know when you live out on the streets, it's easy to want to give up on the world. But then when I see you kids at the kitchen every week, I can't give up on that world." That...