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...CORPS (which stands for Harvard Community Outreach and Public Service), a registered student group led by Smith, will draw at least 500 students to locations all over Boston for various kinds of community service, Smith estimates...
...looks like a typical high school classroom, but the question Ronald Quartimon poses to his African-American students at Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach, an alternative high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., isn't about the Civil War or Shakespeare's sonnets. He wants to know how many of them have ever been stopped by the police. Six hands shoot up. "Usually," says a student, "they just come out right off the bat and ask you, 'Do you have any drugs?'" The comment is a typical one for the 10-session course called Conflicts with Cops, run by the Harlem-based Neighborhood Defender...
...tall," he says. "I get kind of nervous that every time I reach for my ID, there's a possibility that I might die." And in minority neighborhoods across the U.S., there's a good deal of ingrained suspicion. Says Ebony Garcia Williams, 17, a junior at Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach: "Little kids from five and six years old learn to hate the cops because they see what goes on in the community." No matter how many parental lectures are given or workshops held, it will take a long time to overcome attitudes like that...
...addition to his research projects, Kunes participates in the Harvard University Pre-College Outreach Program, which offers weekly lectures to high school students preparing for the Advanced Placement biology exam...
...recent success of the Ivy Leaders Summit, a conference that brought together ten accomplished student leaders from each school, speaks to the potential of this organization. Furthermore, on April 8, the Ivy Council is organizing an Ivy Wide day of Community Outreach and Public Service. (HAR'D CORPS at Harvard). These, along with our core role of bringing about dialogue, certainly add considerable value to the council. In particular, Harvard's Census 2000 grew out of Ivy Council communication and promises to be the major project of the current administration...