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CYEP is only one of the many volunteer programs Harvard students and administrators run in the community. Approximately 1100 undergraduates participate, principally through Phillips Brooks House (PBH)-sponsored programs like CYEP, and, also, since last fall, through a University run program that links each Harvard House with one of the 13 neighborhoods in Cambridge. These programs, which range from coaching youth soccer leagues to "adopting" grandparents to answering telephones in a public service office, give students a chance to work closely with the larger community of Cambridge, bringing University resources to local residents...
...Although PBH has been around since the 1920s, the University has only recently begun to respond to community needs, says Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, adding "We're seeing big change from the last 300 years in community relations...
...more conventional educational things," such as reading novels and writing. Each Harvard student teaches about eight children, and readings, although obligatory, are meant to be fun. One group last summer read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, while McLeod led his group in putting together a magazine. Besides the CYEP, PBH's 23 student-run committees include one to deal with the problems of Cambridge's homeless, one youth recreational program, and several related to problems of the elderly...
...this year, however, PBH is not the only route to community services. Concerned over town-gown relationships. President Bok last spring prompted the University to set in motion a new program which links Undergraduate Houses with Cambridge neighborhoods. The fledgling setup, says organizer Wayne Meisel '82 in a report on the House and Neighborhood Development Project (HAND), has engendered "fundamental cultural, ethnic and civic ties...
Although Ronan views the drive as a political gesture toward an American role in bringing peace to the region. Rural Action Chairman Jess H. Velona '83 said PBH has no underlying political motives in its participation...