Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told, Harvard students from inner-city areas are fewer than may appear from casual conversations about hometown high schools and pre-frosh hang-outs. Yet, undergrads from urban environments have an undeniably different story to tell than those from the burbs...
Often, the reaction students from low-income urban areas find themselves expressing to life in the Yard is strongly shaped by unique neighborhood experiences. And their decisions of what life to pursue after they leave the Yard--from careers in I-banking to social services--may have similarly home-grown influences...
...Evans' urban pride is not unique. Will F.Austin '00, whose home is the working classneighborhood of Dorchester plans on raising hisown family in the same Boston neighborhood wherehis father played street hockey and pick-upbasketball in a nearby park. Outside his door, afew pubs, Dunkin' Donuts, a hardware store, apizza joint and the St. George's Catholic Churchwere the center of Austin's urban landscape...
Although her native Hyde Park was only a fewblocks from the most dangerous projects inChicago, Danielle E. Sherrod '98-'99 claims thatshe felt a "false sense of security" due to streetsmarts she still finds useful in her newsemi-urban home...
...think there is a single drawn face incave art until urban life came around," Cavanaghsays. "Cave art is mostly animals...