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During his four years at Harvard, Kenneth E. Reeves '72 spent two summers and countless school-year afternoons working with kids at the low-income housing project at Dorchester's Columbia Point.
While Reeves took on poverty in his back yard, he also took on global issues. Reeves was a key figure in the spring 1972 takeover of President Derek C. Bok's office in protest of Harvard's $21 million of investments in Gulf Oil, which was viewed as supporting imperialism...
Though Reeves's participation in protest politics was more than a passing foray, his community work was more time consuming and more gratifying. But campus activists today, Reeves says, seem to focus on the bigger issues.
"Today, there's much more emphasis on individual and global problems and much less concern for what's happening in the United States or even in Cambridge," says Reeves, who was director of Phillips Brooks House's (PBH) first summer community outreach program at Columbia Point.
While dozens of students last year busied themselves with rallies, overnight vigils and sit-ins in protest of Harvard's $580 million invested in companies that do some business in South Africa, several hundred other undergraduates, as Reeves did, got involved with a less showy kind of activism.