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Several factors explain the ongoing success of the present MHC--its working along with the movement to reduce the population in mental hospitals, its relatively low level of contact with those professionals sometimes hostile to MHC in the fifties, the clear definition of its projects, the extensive commitment it requires (which discourages transient membership), its back-up program of seminars and films, and its willingness to deal with frustrating local bureaucracies...
...Mental Health Committee (MHC) has found the dilemma relatively easy to solve, since the trend in mental health work is already pointing toward treatment in the community rather than institutionalized rehabilitation. Originally constituted as the Mental Hospitals Committee, MHC changed the meaning of its "H" last fall. The committee began its work in the back wards of Metropolitan State Hospital combining these efforts with some one-to-one case aid work throughout the fifties. This year, MHC remains in only one Metropolitan State ward and in one children's unit, primarily because students on MHC are still interested in that...
...cannot be said that the ward work was fruitless or that it exhausted all MHC's energy in its first 17 years. Jonathan Koaol '58, now known for his work on free schools, ought English to a supposedly outside girl he discovered who had simply not been tonight to speak...
...Prisons Committee, whose direction is equally clear, seems more troubled in its evolution than MHC. Prison Committee chairman Liz Cherish '73 has led the committee away from teaching in prison classrooms toward projects in court-watching legislative research, prisoner group assistance, and parolee assistance. The committee's efforts have expanded enormously. The budget has grown from $267 to $5000 in seven years. The originally small committee first admitted women in the late sixties, growing quickly to the present membership of well over...
...summary: Browne (H) defeated Knowlton, 15-7, 16-14, 17-15; Fenn (MHC) defeated Ward, 11-15, 3-15, 15-12, 15-10, 15-8; Miller (H) defeated Field, 15-11, 15-12, 8-15, 15-13; Rose (H) defeated Bump, 15-10, 15-8, 15-5; Tomes (H) defeated Gray...