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WHAT DOES PSP DO? A range of activities amount to support work for the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). They help get housing for the PBHA summer programs, they spend about $13,000 for educational programs at PBHA, they help coordinate PBHA activities with the University...
...talking about a paper with a tiny circulation serving a limited audience. Connections has a circulation of a whooping 13,000 per issues--i.e., two per undergraduate (one for the common room, one for the bedside table?) which makes it by far the largest newspaper serving undergrads. One of PSP staffer spends a significant amount of her time working on this paper. The printing costs alone are likely to total at least...
...addition, PSP attends national conferences on public service, duplicating the attendance of PBHA representatives. These activities are at best a waste of money, at worst another attempt to replace real commitment with presence at meetings and conferences...
...third rubric of activities fall under the term control. PSP organizes and sits on a number of important committees on public service. Most importantly, they sit on the committee dividing up funds from the president's Public Service Fund, totaling around $120,000 a year...
Most of the Funds go to PBHA. But PSP, in concert with a committee consisting of Harvard administrators, most of whom have little or no connection to public service, wields significant power over who in PBHA gets how much...