Word: publicly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the work of Phillips Brooks House Association resembles that of the man who dived in. Soup kitchens and tutoring programs address the immediate needs of very needy people. Public service volunteers bring food and warmth and human knowledge to people starved for lack of resources...
...explicit goal of PBHA is to help individuals gain control over their own lives. In order to promote this goal, PBHA cannot simply offer handouts. It must confront the deeper causes of social misery. PBHers' experience in public service gives them a valuable perspective which should not be muted...
...support of its volunteers. The historical record dissents. Involvement in political stands is nothing new to the organization. PBHA has for years affirmed non-partisan positions on issues ranging from minority hiring to toxic waste. All the while, PBHA has grown until, today, it is the largest student-run public service organization in the country...
...volunteers may shy away from an organization that stands up for social change. The loss of those volunteers to public service would be regrettable. But it would be far more regrettable for PBHA to forsake the opportunity to work toward real, long-term improvements in our society...
...South Africa....Since that time, little has happened at Harvard. But in South Africa, conditions have changed--from horrible to even worse....The original demands of the 1978 protesters are the demands that count. Boycotting the ACSR should be the only step in a return to the confrontational public protest of years past...In the embarrassing glare, this university and others might be forced to take the only step that means anything--total and immediate divestiture...