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...Most black students either have no energy to expand beyond adjusting to the Harvard dsituation or are already so angry that PBH will not attract them," said Barnes. Another PBH executive, Petri, expanded on this to say that "while the middle class Harvard student is used to minor change and will accept it whether he wants more or not, a student coming from an environment where things are blatantly wrong will demand changes in the entire system." These students are turning to SDS and Afro...
Afro has started a tutoring program at the Cambridge Community Center. Howard said, "I wouldn't condemn the PBH programs in black communities to the point of saying get the hell out of there, but they should be black." He said, however, the white program directors have no place in the black community because "they don't have any understanding of the problems of blacks and can act as the condescending great white father...
Profit, a PBH chairman and a member of Afro, said a "false wall" had been erected between the two organizations. He went on to say, "Afro is convinced that all Negro problems differ from those faced by every other ghetto group, while PBH acts as if all problems were purely economic and environmental and do not differ when a racial dimension is added...
...that time, PBH volunteers may be out of Harvard and in the real world. As one PBH executive explained, "We do not want to turn out businessmen who write checks for charity...
...Association Committee," which includes ten professionals from the Boston area, was set up this year to analyze PBH programs and to recommend changes for their improvement...