Word: internship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having a middleman like Steiner deal with activists has helped Bok avoid direct confrontations. Last spring, for instance, Bok skirted the controversy surrounding a proposed internship program which would have sent Harvard students to work in educational institutions in South Africa...
Dispersed throughout 11 public service organizations in Appalachia, the students have tried to help the groups improve literacy, health and the environment in the region, said Karl Hill, the organizer of the internship program...
Still, there have been occassionaluncomfortable moments for some of the interns,Hill said. A few Black undergraduates on theprogram, he said, have encountered racialprejudice from the predominantly white Appalachiancommunity. But Hill said the Blacks say the racismis not bad or frequent enough for them to withdrawfrom the internship program...
...Appalachia and soon-to-be-startedBangladesh internship programs are the first ODNprojects to directly supervise on-site studentpublic service work. In the past, ODN has only putstudents in touch with the groups...