Word: pbha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremely irritating to realize that the only time Harvard's oldest newspaper can find the space to comment of PBHA is when they print error-laden pieces of sensationalist trash. Nordhaus's editorial speaks of "serious mismanagement within the North Yard's PBH headquarters," but I really don't feel Nordhaus is in any position to comment on PBH. He obviously knows little of PBH's legal status or activities, and his comments on the Keylatch accident show how little he knows about summer day camps. The most serious injury suffered in the Keylatch van accident was a fractured collar...
...opening paragraph of his article, Nordhaus insinuates that PBHA is full of uncontrolled college students that need the constant supervision of University officials to prevent them from wreaking havoc on the Greater Boston area. In fact, PBHA has over 30 responsibly run committees, each independently operated, that range from World Teach, which places individual from all over the world in Kenya to teach school children, to committees which shelter the homeless. I do not consider myself a "20-year-old with noble intentions," but someone who has spent a great deal of time at PBH during the last three years...
Inner City Outreach is just one of six independently operated summer programs under the PBHA umbrella. The safety record for these programs, if examined as a whole, is exceptionally good. Harvard students have been successfully running programs like mine for the last eight summers, serving close to 300 children, five days a week, eight hours a day, for eight weeks each summer. PBHA counselors drive children daily, and have driven thousands of children over the years, taking them practically anywhere, from foreign cities to local sites. The two recent accidents are the most serious we have ever experienced...
Nordhaus believes that PBHA's credibility is being "fundamentally questioned" because of the accidents. I don't believe this is true. All of PBHA's summer camp programs are currently operating, including Keylatch and my own. Friday, after our accident, the kids eagerly and willingly boarded another shuttle bus to return home. The parents we serve are equally supportive of our efforts. After we visited each home Friday to explain the accident, parents let their children get on another shuttle bus to go to the movie theater...
...children and parents in our program (like those in the Keylatch program) realized something The Crimson's reporters seem unable to accept: there is no way for a PBHA counselor to prevent every accident from occurring; we can only try to minimize their likelihood and the harm of their consequences. We are not all-powerful or infallible. The Crimson is the only paper which insists on belaboring the unfortunate accidents PBH has been involved in this summer, and their unwillingness to allow fellow students to do their work unscandalized is inexplicable. At a time when Oliver North is an American...