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...says Mitch N. Berman '88, who this summer will join Law School graduates Alan A. Khazei '83 and Michael H. Brown '84 at one of the most creative public service initiatives in Boston--City Year, a non-profit venture which uses college-age volunteers in public service projects...
Founded by Khazei and Brown, this "urban Peace Corps" program will get into full gear in a few weeks. Although it was developed from an idea to a reality just this year, City Year has drawn together a working group which includes recent graduates and students of Harvard College, Law, Business and Kennedy Schools. Equally critical to making the City Year experiment fly is its impressive and expanding group of advisors and sponsors, which includes former U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas, Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner and the Bank of Boston...
Unlike the Peace Corps, City Year was founded in a Law School student's apartment, not the White House. The program is an independent, privately funded venture, and Khazei and Brown drew heavily on students and faculty at the Law School when creating it. Even President Bok participated, appraising and discussing a 10-page sketch of City Year which the two presented...
City Year's working members see it as part of a tiny but potentially booming national youth service movement. The idea of a national youth service program has been bandied about for a long time and Brown and Khazei--roommates at the College and the Law School--both researched a national service bill while interning for members of Congress on Capital Hill. They and other proponents of national service now say that using a decentralized network of local groups like City Year might be the most practical way to realize their ideal...
...Khazei says he worked closely on the formulation of Hart's proposals for national public service legislation, which proposes compulsory community service work for college-age youth. Hart's college organizers say that they like Hart's "progressive, national" vision, and Khazei says that workers in their early twenties will be more numerous in Hart's campaign than in any other candidate...