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...less controversial side, the spring grants package, which awarded over $29,000 to various student groups, passed unanimously. The only debate surrounded an appeal by George T. Hill '00, director of Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Summer Program (BYRE) for an $400 increase of his group's grant...
...they changed their names, Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth (HARMONY) would become HMONY, and Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe (STAHR) would become STAH...
...recycling crusade lit a fire under the city's next generation. Since he was a nine-year-old fourth-grader at Littlewood Elementary School, Will has united classmates, teachers, recycling firms and other local companies in a bid to rid Gainesville's school grounds of trash and develop youth recycling programs. Says Will: "I knew that if I did it, the other kids would stand up and do it too. We don't do it if adults just lecture...
...Westwood, Will, a student senator, has turned much of his attention to Florida's successful youth antismoking campaign, but he's stayed close to the recycling operation he started. Whenever he travels to Atlanta to see his grandparents, who don't recycle, he bags up their cans and hauls them back to his bins and crushers in Gainesville, but not before he tries to see an Atlanta Braves game. Will is a big baseball fan, and he would just love to keep Gainesville's schoolyards as green and clean as the field his idols play...
...life. Required to be an intern in a government office, Hayes called Gaylord Nelson, then a liberal U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, and volunteered to organize a series of teach-ins across the country to call attention to the environment. Energized by the memories of the ravaged forests of his youth, he dropped out of Harvard and devoted his time to organizing rallies, street demonstrations and trash cleanups. It all culminated with the first Earth Day, when 20 million people put on the biggest show of flower power the country had seen...