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After major renovations costing more than $850,000, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at the University Lutheran Church, the only student-run shelter in America, is aiming for a November 15 re-opening...
...University Lutheran Church on Winthrop Street, which has housed the "UniLu" shelter in its basement since the early 1980s, contributed $800,000 to the renovations, while student volunteers raised $25,000 through solicitations and a recent walk-a-thon, a sum matched by the University...
Enhancements to the shelter include additional showers, a wheelchair accessible entrance, improved counseling and work space and dining area, two laundry machines, and stronger partitions for the women's bedrooms...
...past, plumbing was a big problem, and there was only one shower for all the guests, in the men's bathroom - so every time a woman needed to shower we had to cordon off the men's room," says Jennine B. Mazzarelli '01, an emergency director for the shelter. "Now the bathrooms look great--there is a shower in the women's room too, and overall the place looks much more welcoming - which is important if you're trying to give people a real home to live...
...coast of Malaysian Borneo, alone except for monitor lizards, poisonous sea krait snakes, food-thieving macaque monkeys and 10 camera crews videotaping their every forage. For about six weeks, with as few supplies as if they'd fled a shipwreck, they must scrabble for food, water and shelter by cooperating. Up to a point, that is. Every three days, the group must also vote by secret ballot to expel one or two members--once for each of 13 episodes--until only two remain. The expelled members then decide which of the pair wins a $1 million prize...