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...services, choir members will accept donations for Casa Nueva Vida in Jamaica Plain. “This year the choir voted on children, domestic violence, and education as the top three types of causes it would like to support. Casa Nueva Vida combines these initiatives as a special interest homeless shelter which provides job training for women and homework help for their kids,” said member Heather S. Horn ’08. While the traditionally full house for carol services includes many individuals who have been coming for years, Senior Choir Secretary Michael T. Wilson...
...opening Lamont 24 hours a day is heralded as a momentous victory—it is easy to accuse Harvard’s entire student body of being overly consumed with petty, ivory tower politics and personal advancement. After spending two hours at the entirely student-run Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (nicknamed UniLu as a result of it being situated in the basement of the University Lutheran Church) this past Saturday, it has become evident to me just how unfair such an accusation...
...These students who devote their Saturday nights to volunteering at UniLu—the only college student-run homeless shelter in the nation, according to volunteer coordinator Jill F. Stockwell ’08—do so out of a desire to make a real difference in the world, not to pad resumes. In their view, the homeless denizens of Harvard Square that we constantly walk past and all too often ignore provide tangible evidence of unfairness and inequality in society...
...volunteer, Luke M. Messac ’08 puts it, “I first started volunteering because seeing homeless people everywhere just really struck me. We are the richest non-profit organization aside from the Catholic Church, and it is extremely troubling to me that such poverty exists right next door...
...entryways from re-entering their rooms after the fire department left. Murphy said that the police stopped students from accessing their rooms because of the powder given off by the chemical extinguisher. This was the second time in a week that students have been left homeless for a night due to improper use of a fire extinguisher—a nearly identical incident took place next door in Eliot’s D entryway the previous Saturday. Some residents expressed anger at the decision of the police, claiming that their extension of the ban beyond L entryway was retribution...