Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several weeks thereafter, homelessness found itself at the forefront of campus news and activity. While shelter workers around Harvard Square reported that community volunteerism among students increased by at least two dozen after the incident, other undergraduates lobbied for more shelters at Cambridge city hall. Then in March, the University sponsored one of the nation's first conferences on problems affecting the homeless population...
...months after the incident, students, shelter officials and Cambridge politicians are saying that Harvard's insensitive posture toward the area's homeless population hasn't changed significantly. "The University took the easiest way out by taking the grates off and realizing that the media would not, and could not, concentrate on the more serious issue of homelessness," says Schrager, who volunteered for the Food Salvage. "Harvard wasn't caring, only clever...
Sullivan argues that homelessness is still a hot issue in the city. In Central Square, local residents this spring defeated a proposal to convert an abandoned church building into a 20-bed shelter, while in the western section of Cambridge, neighbors are currently trying to prevent a non-profit group from establishing a home for mental patients in the area...
...There is definitely a role for an institution [like Harvard] to play in the community with a problem that obviously affects the student body," says David A. Whitty, executive director of a Boston-based shelter. "The line between an institution and the community is not a wall over which problems do not flow...
Even those lucky enough to have seats, however, are not guaranteed protection from the elements. The University provides a tent as shelter against rain or rays--but only for the dignitaries on the main stage. A brand new, 175-ft. tent covers the makeshift platform in front of Memorial Church where President Derek C. Bok and other VIPs will sit. The dacron bigtop is more than twice as large as the old canvas tent it replaces...