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...response, College administration quickly organized a new Public Service Program, which would help meet community needs through a series of House-based groups. They promised that the program would operate in cooperation with the existing student-run community outreach organization, Phillips Brooks House (PBH), while broadening undergraduates' options for doing off-campus non-profit work...
...this week the University's apparently well-intentioned desire to increase student volunteerism hit a snag. Leaders of the 800-person Phillips Brooks operation charged that the College had broken a pledge to hire a PBH officer to coordinate the new University-sponsored program. Without that specific link, said PBH President Ellyn Kestnbaum '83, the two groups would waste time and energy duplicating each other's efforts...
Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 responded that Harvard had never promised to hire a PBH nominee for the directorship of the Public Service Program, adding that the administration had worked hard to avoid the potential problem Kestnbaum envisioned...
...week's end, Kestnbaum and others had backed away from their initially strident position, saying that the College had not made a firm promise and that only an ambiguously worded agreement was in question. She added that PBH officials have been working closely with the University's choice. Ann M. Wacker, in order to avoid future conflicts...
Meisel, however stressed that the two groups have similar goals and that he and Wacker will seek to coordinate efforts informally with PBH. The advantage of the Harvard set up he said is that it might induce students reluctant to become heavily involved in PBH to do community work...