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...itas: Phillips Brooks House (PBH)barely escaped catastrophe in late July when oneof its vans, filled far beyond legal capacity with26 inner-city children, flipped over aMassachusetts Turnpike guardrail. Although thechildren suffered only minor injuries, the21-year-old driver was charged with "operating toendanger" for over-loading the vehicle, which wascarrying participants of the "Keylatch" summerprogram to an amusement park in southernMassachusetts. The accident raised questions aboutthe training PBH van drivers receive and promptedPBH to review its driving policies...
Burning Down the Bus: Near-disasterstruck PBH for the second time in as many weekswhen a Harvard shuttle bus that PBH borrowed burstinto flames on Route 93 near Medford. None of the30 children and counselors in the vehicle wasinjured. When noises started coming from the bus'sengine, the driver pulled the bus over and quicklyevacuated the passengers--members of PBH's InnerCity Outreach program--before the bus ignited. Thecause of the fire is still undetermined...
...extremely irritating to realize that the only time Harvard's oldest newspaper can find the space to comment of PBHA is when they print error-laden pieces of sensationalist trash. Nordhaus's editorial speaks of "serious mismanagement within the North Yard's PBH headquarters," but I really don't feel Nordhaus is in any position to comment on PBH. He obviously knows little of PBH's legal status or activities, and his comments on the Keylatch accident show how little he knows about summer day camps. The most serious injury suffered in the Keylatch van accident was a fractured collar...
...operated, that range from World Teach, which places individual from all over the world in Kenya to teach school children, to committees which shelter the homeless. I do not consider myself a "20-year-old with noble intentions," but someone who has spent a great deal of time at PBH during the last three years working with the homeless, counselling in an afterschool program, and directing, raising funds for, and counselling in a summer camp program for kids in Dorchester. In his 16th Baccaulaureate Address last June 9th President Bok told the Class of '87, "I have watched you teaching...
...accept: there is no way for a PBHA counselor to prevent every accident from occurring; we can only try to minimize their likelihood and the harm of their consequences. We are not all-powerful or infallible. The Crimson is the only paper which insists on belaboring the unfortunate accidents PBH has been involved in this summer, and their unwillingness to allow fellow students to do their work unscandalized is inexplicable. At a time when Oliver North is an American "hero" and Crimson reporters spend their summers at investment banking firms, I realize that many people sneer at public service. However...