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Administrators of the PBH programs are moving from charity to more socially and politically active positions. Two weeks ago, the PBH program working at the Cambridge Community Center delivered an ultimatum to the Center's Administrative Board. Robert A. Goodin '68, co-chairman of the cultural enrichment program, threatened to pull out of the Center unless its administration was taken over by the residents of the neighborhood in which it operates. He said there was no justification for a non-indigenous group to be there unless it was directly responsive to the needs and wants of the neighborhood. Residents...
This is a power tactic which might be used more and more, according to Benjamin A. Barnes '68, president of PBH. He said, "The number of hours in the field are good-will in the bank, and legitimate a student's activist role in a community ushing for change...
Mark R. Dyen '70, a co-chairman of SDS, supported Goodin's action, but doubted if most PBH projects had equal power to force change. He said, "PBH does not have a power base outside of the established institutions and no organization can accomplish serious change working within the system." Jeffrey P. Howard '69, president of Afro, took the same position as Dyen...
This illustrates the basic philosophical difference between PBH and Afro and SDS. Even with the changing image of PBH, a prophecy for joint action with Afro or SDS seems tenuous. PBH is concerned with particular institutions that have faltered in the present society, a society in which faith is retained; Afro and SDS are interested in changing the overall structure of America. PBH generally has immediate pragmatic change as its end; Afro and SDS use change in the present as a means toward a future end almost Chekhovian in its expanse...
...Certain PBH committees, however, faced with an inability to act effectively under the limitations of the institution in which they work, are seeking to act outside of that institution. Neilther the Lyman Reform School Committee nor the Prisons Committee have the power to push for basic structural changes. Their programs can continue only so long as they remain within the regulations set by the administration of the reform school or prison. But both of these programs are working outside of their institutions to establish "halfway houses," where students released from reform school and prisoners on parole can live for about...