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...lifestyle choice. But “Rent”’s main characters accept poverty as both a necessary byproduct of refusing to sell out and a hip way to spend one’s youth. The characters live their bohemian lives right next to a massive homeless community, but the homeless enter the film—with one exception—only as extras or in rhetoric. The makers of “Rent” understand that homelessness is a problem in Alphabet City, but they choose to focus their energies on the artists next door.To...
...based, character building organization. Giving back to the community is a really fundamental aspect of what it means to be a Sigma Chi member.” Balesh said Sigma Chi has extended its efforts to help the community this fall. Currently three brothers volunteer at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter every Thursday night. In October, the fraternity co-sponsored a party with the Delta Gamma sorority to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina. For its next community service endeavor, Sigma Chi plans to collaborate with the Children’s Miracle Network to raise money for Children?...
...teacher vacancies. Statewide, Maryland requires 6,000 new teachers annually, but its colleges and universities produce just 2,500, and only the most altruistic of them choose to work in urban schools, where the challenges range from trying to raise low test scores to tending to students who are homeless or whose parents are on drugs. The No Child Left Behind Act, which requires schools to meet certain standards or risk losing federal funding, has intensified the need for good teachers in poor schools...
...Catalano says that most drug law violations in the area come from individuals not affiliated with the College who come on campus to find a place to light up. Enforcement, in sum, is more likely to target “pit kids” and the homeless than Harvard students...
...said the group also has a global mission. “In the past few years, so many hate crimes have been caused by misunderstandings about religions,” Yanamadala said. Don Larsen, the pastor at the University Lutheran Church and a representative from the House Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, agreed that HIC served a greater international pursuit. “The world’s peace is dependent upon people learning to respect one another’s religious peculiarities,” Larsen said. “Through meetings like this, people can go beyond what...