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Just four years after Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network (ODN), the group has chapters at 40 colleges and more than 600 student volunteers. ODN has raised over $300,000 to sponsor, among other things, internship programs in Appalachia, India and Bangladesh...
...summer ODN sent 20 undergraduates from various colleges to America's impoverished Appalachia region where they worked for public service groups. Backed by $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, ODN paired students with grassroots groups in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The summer internship program was aimed at getting students out of offices and into the field, according to Shubham Chaudhuri '87-'88, a member of the organization...
Although Mitter refused to discuss the detailsof the report, which has only been outlined, hesaid it would probably condemn internship programslike the one Harvard attempted last year
...last minority summer internship program (okay, maybe so it's reverse discrimination, but we've been oppressed for 300 years, and we can hardly join any country clubs), everybody seemed to be assimilationist--we rarely made fun of white people. Of course, we played it close to the vest regarding our true sentiments...
...make matters worse, the internship program itself was poorly conceived. Applications for internships were to be handled like the myriad of other such programs with less lofty geopolitical goals--through the school's Office of Career Services (OCS). And several of the institutions interested in taking part in the program were of questionable help to disadvantaged Blacks...