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...president of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBH), which leads dozens of social and community service projects, Truong has tried to do just that. He says in the past several years PBH has grown increasingly popular among students, alumni and with the administration, becoming a part of a new activism that has social service as its focus...
...judging by PBH's success in the past few years, the tactic of reforming from within may be working...
About 1100 of Harvard's 6400 undergraduates are involved in PBH's 36 committees, and alumni interest in the programs is so great that PBH has already surpassed its $600,000 fund drive goal. The programs range from working with the homeless to sponsoring summer camps for urban children to providing legal advice for the unemployed to supporting the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers...
...Walter, the PBH coordinator, warns against too much sympathy for inmates. "You've got to take it all with a grain of salt," she says. "It's easy to fall into the trap of their sad stories, because they're all sad. But you've got to remember that every one of them did something wrong...
Nevertheless, most PBH tutors who have spent time with the inmates say they feel Deer Island creates more problems than it prevents. So they keep returning, Monday night after Monday night, hoping to make prison life a little better...