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...Johnson returned to Harvard to save a sinking PBH, which then had only $95 in the bank. Six years ago, he says, PBH was caught up in ideological debates and investment decisions. It was "distracted from social service, caught up in rhetorical politics," Johnson says...
Monique E. Dixon '86, PBH's treasurer, says ideological debate still takes up time at meetings: "'Are we going to be a social service or social action [organization]?' was a big question for PBH earlier this year...
Dixon got involved with PBH her freshman year when she took a work-study job as a counselor for the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program. In the same year, she marched in front of the office of Dean of Freshmen Henry C. Moses, calling for the reinstatement of minority organization events on the Freshman Week calandar...
...another PBH activist insists adamantly that protest is not the way to go. "People who organize protests have really good intentions, but they haven't seen that many results, at least not at Harvard," asserts Remigio Cruz '86, who spends several afternoons a week and lives summers in a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Boston's South...
Cruz's philosophy is an outgrowth of his experiences as director of PBH's Keylatch program in the Villa Victoria housing project, where he says he "learned how politics works...how to get along with people to get money and to get things done...