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Just as harmful as the generalization that all homeless people are dishonest or deserving of their situations is the generalization that all homeless people are “sleeping outside of the COOP, asking for money outside of CVS, or hanging out close the train stop,” as Seegars characterizes them in his column. While it is important to recognize and empathize with the people we walk past, who seem to be there every day alone with cups outstretched on the street, students should also recognize that there is a large population of homeless people...
Seegars is entreating students to treat the homeless more like humans, but perhaps we should go one step further and remember that there is nothing that truly separates them from us as people except perhaps a few years of unfortunate twists of fate. In emphatically writing about a homeless population that is a static and unchanging “they,” he seems to be defining the homeless as an “other,” inherently different kind of population. “Abject poverty” and “the greatest academic institution...
Tanya Garcia, 19, of Brooklyn also went off track at the end of middle school. A fire destroyed her family's apartment and left them homeless for four months. She landed in a large, impersonal high school, and quickly became disengaged. "I started getting into drugs--weed, drinking, cocaine and heroin." After two years of mostly cutting class, she had accumulated a grand total of one credit. When she tried to transfer to another school, "the dean pretty much laughed in my face," she says. At 16, she stopped going to school. "I didn't see myself having any kind...
...Learning to Work program and close relationships with counselors from a health and social-services group. The atmosphere here is a bit more no-nonsense. The 250 students are all over 17, and many have weighty daytime responsibilities. "They have kids at home. Some are pregnant. Some are homeless," says assistant principal Martin Smallhorne, an energetic young administrator who works hard to create a personalized program inside one of the city's larger and less intimate high schools...
...puzzle moneymaker?WS: I disagree on Sudoku. Well the craze has waned, just as the crossword craze of 1924-25 has waned. People at the time thought crosswords were another fad like flagpole sitting or raccoon coats...Sudoku is like that. Walking here this morning I passed a homeless man who was lying in the sidewalk leaned up against the building and he had a newspaper open and he was solving a Sudoku and I thought, “Harvard has the smartest homeless people.”12.FM: Do you think that there is anything that is going...