Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study published by the United Community Planning Corporation of the Massachusetts Association of Mental Health claims that 83 percent of all homeless people either suffer from drug dependency, are mentally ill or retarded, or suffer from a character disorder. However, Steve Kalar '88, co-director of the homeless shelter of the University Lutheran Church, thinks that the figures are inflated, "a by-product of the fact that the study was conducted by psychologists." Blanchard also thinks the actual figure is much lower, and that the homeless are on the street mainly for economic reasons. He says that when...
...houses where the mentally ill and homeless could help one another get back on their feet. It is a helpful suggestion, but no one answer will solve the problem. In all likelihood the problem will never be solved. But so long as we encourage the homeless to wander from shelter to steam vent, we are not helping them; we are forsaking them...
Finally, now that Cambridge has moved its bus stops--and the accompanying wooden shelters that kept people warm and dry--from Cambridge Common to the underground shelter beneath Harvard Square, will the College erect a shelter for cold and wet shuttle riders across from the old burying ground? Or will it possibly find a route system that is less complex and doesn't require you to wait for more than 15 minutes for a bus? Don't bet on it. For as sure as death and taxes, it's a long way from the suburbs to the city...
...FINDING SHELTER...
...greatest men in our country's history, something is defintely wrong--with us, the students. You'd think the crime of the century had been commited, the way angry undergrads ranted and raved about the University's actions--only to reject the idea of building a shelter for the homeless because the project was "A difficult, expensive, time-consuming, labor-consuming effort." Well, defeating racism is a similar task, but its problems and side effects can never be overcome unless people take the first step and admit that this country still has a tremendous problem with racism. As long...