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Lenora C. Murphy ’12, an avid fan of the series who was chosen to be a Storm Leader—what she called a “super volunteer??—for yesterday’s event, said she enjoyed the newest installment for its myriad characters and fast-paced plots...
...Furthermore, if we have the government pay people to “volunteer??—perhaps by making college more affordable for those who do, as Obama suggests—then what they do is not service as such, but a job, paid for with taxpayer dollars. This also raises an important vagueness in the concept of service. What is the sharp distinction between jobs that are traditionally considered service, such as being a soldier, and jobs that are not, such as being a shop clerk? If that seems too clear, what about being a firefighter, police...
...While the directors of PBHA programs have a responsibility to choose dedicated volunteers, it is often difficult to anticipate a volunteer??s level of commitment. One way of dealing with this is by educating their volunteers as much as possible about the communities they are working in. But there is also a large element of self-education and awareness necessary for real immersion in social service...
...Invaluable,” Donato says of the volunteer??s efforts, while Grumet-Morris himself calls Irving “one of the biggest assets that I have here at Harvard...
When an Olympics Committee volunteer said that Romney had sworn at him in a confrontation over the volunteer??s handling of a traffic jam, Romney famously declared that he said nothing worse than “H-E-double-hockey-sticks” to the volunteer...