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While most Harvard students cagerly look forward to December vacation, student organizers of one Cambridge homeless shelter are once again bracing for a lack of volunteers during the holiday season...
Every year, the student-run University Lutheran Shelter has problems finding enough volunteers to staff its 23-bed facility when students leave Cambridge...
Panhandling has risen to a new level in Harvard Square. During these few weeks before Christmas, when all of America is supposed to feel some vague feeling of generosity, there have been a number of individuals collecting spare change for things other than the typical food, clothing and shelter. A few feet away from a homeless, hungry, disabled veteran, I saw a few men trying to raise money for, well, road trips...
Once charity becomes a source of income, it is natural that luxuries, such as a Christmas vacation to Hawaii, will be demanded in addition to necessities, such as food, clothing and shelter. This is particularly true in a culture pervaded by a crass materialism. Every radio, every television, every newspaper, and every billboard conditions us to believe that the accumulation of material possessions is the purpose of life. Thus, it is not surprising that poor Americans demand the same advantages that their more fortunate neighbors have, and I would be the last one to condemn someone for feeling this...
Written by Ron Weiner and directed by Dan Cooper, "Galaxy" subverts this dilemma by making fun of its own genre. As the program notes, it is the year 2321, and the Earth's atmosphere has been "rendered uninhabitable." The former earthlings are forced to take shelter in an enclosed biosphere called Dome Federation One. Living under the reign of an oppressive dictatorship, they hold out for the elusive hope of a "New Earth...