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...false sense of familiarity with New England culture is only perpetuated, however, by most of the attempts we make to get closer to the real Massachusetts. PBHA vans shuttle eager students into poor areas of Boston on a daily basis. But the Harvard bubble is not geographical in nature; it is not something you can merely drive past. Such programs are staffed by familiar Harvard students who return thinking they have transcended the borders of the school, when in reality, they have only temporarily stretched them...
...don’t know where the genesis for the idea came from but we ended up taking our plant from PBHA sale at the beginning of the year and brought it down to the Weeks foot bridge, doused it in Jack Daniels and lit it on fire and dumped it over the edge of the bridge and hoped for the river,” said Abely. An original incantation was read facing Leverett House. The blocking group ended up in a Leverett suite overlooking the river...
...nine different locations this March. More students will be participating in the program this year than any other year in its near half-century history, with the exception of 2006, when a special donation from the Harvard COOP allowed 150 students to work in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. PBHA Executive Director Gene A. Corbin said he believed the rise in applicants was the effect of both word-of-mouth and increased civic-mindedness among students. He also cited the Obama campaign’s positive impact on participation in public service. PBHA Director of Programs Kate Meunier similarly attributed...
Mental Health Week will continue tomorrow with themed study-breaks in all of the Houses. It will culminate in a PBHA-sponsored discussion about “Why isn’t it okay to seek help at Harvard” on Friday...
...prison. As the social chair of Suffolk County House of Correction Tutoring Program at the Phillip’s Brook’s House Association, he has been going to the facility once a week for two years. The Prison Education Committee, one of the few PBHA tutoring programs that focuses on assisting adults, gives its volunteers unique access to a community that is both isolated from mainstream society and in desperate need of aid. “This segment of the population, I think, is very much feared, ignored, [and] neglected,” says Rachel M. Singh...