Word: pbh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phillips Brooks House Association (PBH) yesterday declared its support for the DuBois Institute Student Coalition (DISC) proposals that recommend student and community involvement in the planning of the institute...
...letter sent yesterday to top University administrators and members of the Faculty Advisory Board of the DuBois Institute, the PBH cabinet unanimously supported three DISC recommendations--a complementary relationship between the Afro-American Studies Department and the institute, institute responsiveness to the concerns of the black community and student participation in institute planning...
However, the number of actual volunteers on the PBH records has remained approximately the same as last year. The figure has hovered at just below four hundred for the past five years, after a 1967-68 peak of just under 1000 volunteers. But executives point out the faddish nature of much of late 1960's volunteering. "The numbers don't necessarily reflect a greater commitment," says Steve Cooke...
...PBH leaders see the problem of recruiting as attracting the kind of people in the first place who are willing to give the extra time and energy that everyone in the House agrees is needed for social change. It's easier to sign up to tutor once or twice a week than to interview, lobby, and organize...
...PBH wants to fight the attitudes at Harvard and Radcliffe that stop students from doing anything that doesn't produce any immediate results. The new president feels that the University's structure fosters that student attitude, but he and his cabinet want to recruit and educate volunteers in the hopes of making some change in a system they have unconsciously helped to perpetuate...