Word: mhasp
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...coordinators in the Mission Hill After-School Program (MHASP), run by the Phillips Brooks House Association, Sykes and Beeman work as supervisors of Green Group, a job they said gives them a unique perspective on life at Harvard and beyond. Made up of nine eight and nine-year-olds whom the two visit twice a week, Green Group has Beeman and Sykes continuously struggling to maintain order and inspire creativity...
...Mission Hill, such individual attention does not come often to most students. According to MHASP co-director Michael S. Boyce '99, the low-income housing area was recently recognized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as "one of the six worst projects in the nation." Boyce also notes that although the area, which draws its population largely from the African American, Puerto Rican and Dominican minority communities, underwent large-scale drug sweeps five years ago, at the time some residents alleged that sweep arrests were racially motivated...
Beeman said the MHASP program is designed to provide children struggling to learn in this inner-city environment of crime and poverty with "Something fun and safe after school...
...contrast between the MHASP Green Groupcoordinators and their younger counterparts isstriking. During the visit Wednesday, all GreenGroup counselors present happen to be white, allof the children African-American or Latino...
This may be due to the fact that students inGreen group and other MHASP groups are not awareof the privileges Harvard students are offeredaccess to at the College...