Word: pbh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee on Students and Community Relations (CSCR) has squandered many man-hours investigating PBH's purpose, finances, and need for a $20,000 Faculty subsidy. After months of delegating responsibility and scheduling subcommittee hearings, the CSCR finally recommended a temporary $10,000 grant and reconsideration of the subsidy issue "an other year." If "another year" means 1973 or later, it will be too late...
...drastic cutback in the University's annual subsidy to Phillips Brooks House has far-reaching implications which all students should understand. The recent report submitted by the Subcommittee on Phillips Brooks House to the Committee on Students and Community Relations is totally unacceptable; a phasing out of PBH robs this community of one of its most valuable educational resources and, more frighteningly, the rationale employed by the subcommittee for its recommendations smacks of political repression and suggests a type of students service organization which can have no positive effects on the lives of poor people in the country...
Secondly, in its recommendation to the FAS the sub-committee berates PBH for its "professionalism" and its subsequent inability to accommodate hundreds of interested volunteers. Cutting off funds to PBH is certainly no way to remedy these shortcomings. PBH programs can correctly be termed "professional" only in that they demand a time commitment most volunteers cannot afford because of the University's refusal to consider PBH work for credit. Without a serious commitment of time and energy on the part of the volunteers (often at the expense of their academic studies) no socially productive and/or personally rewarding programs will develop...
Thirdly, by eliminating PBH, Harvard once again ignores its responsibility to the Cambridge community. The events during commencement involving the Riverside people last year dramatically point out that it is high time the University start taking townrelations seriously. For the past two years PBH has provided a free summer camp and education program for 70 poor children from Cambridge This program received Model Cities' money and participated in the Cambridge Community Schools Program; in other words, it had the support of Cambridge institutions and more importantly the people. The sub-committee report suggests that PBH require its committees to cover...
Fourthly, the committee suggests that PBH programs come under the scrutiny of the FAS. Is it naive to think this sort of administrative review can be politically neutral? When PBH allows Black Panthers to talk to students in its Common room (after the University unequivocally denied them a place to speak) and when PBH allows anti-war groups to carry on their activities much to the dismay of certain administrators, can we surmise that the University wishes to see PBH exorcised? For many of us students, PBH activities have been a radicalizing experience; the disparity between textbook facts and reality...