Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Often, the reaction students from low-income urban areas find themselves expressing to life in the Yard is strongly shaped by unique neighborhood experiences. And their decisions of what life to pursue after they leave the Yard--from careers in I-banking to social services--may have similarly home-grown influences...
...course, certain unique city games are also invented, various forms of tag and follow the leader, played in asphalt parking lots and alleys throughout the neighborhood. As Quincy R. Evans '00, a veteran of such childhood frolicking, recollects, everyone on his block has always understood how to have a good time...
Like Khentov, Evans is unabashedly proud of his neighborhood, Sound View, a low-income community in the heart of the Bronx. Yet he is realistic about the tidal pull of crime that moves with a constant ebb and flow through the close-knit series of apartments surrounding...
Through Prep-For-Prep--a program which helps inner-city minorities prepare for preparatory high schools and college--Evans left Sound View to attend Phillips Andover Academy. Through will-power and a knack for resisting neighborhood temptations, Evans was able to embrace what he calls "positive living...
...People knew I was smart," says Evansgratefully, "but they never thought of Harvard asa place where somebody from my neighborhood wouldgo...