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...such as the First Amendment and which don't involve complex factual matters are best. That's because one difficulty in talking with inmates is telling fact from fiction, says Katherine Kennedy '82, a third-year student who has been interested in prison work since she tutored at MCI-Deer Island as an undergraduate. Kennedy emphasizes the importance of weeding out the facts of the case throughout the entire process...
Bryant, a senior, is the leader of a Phillips Brooks House group that goes to the Deer Island minimum-security facility to tutor inmates hoping to pass the Graduate Equivalency Degree (GED). The GED, which covers math, English, science and social studies, offers the equivalent of a high school diploma--and, for many prisoners, a one-way ticket out of a life of crime...
Bryant is one of about 50 students who give time through PBH to tutor prisoners. Twenty-four go to the Massachusetts Correctional Institute (MCI) at Deer Island, while another 30 go to three other medium- to maximum-security prisons and one halfway house. Most spend about an hour and a half each week tutoring...
...Friday--Several hundred festively dressed seniors are suitably distressed when the ship they've commissioned for the Mather House booze cruise, the The Good Times, misses a buoy or two and crashes into the Deer Island sewage plant. City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci organizes a demonstration in appreciation for the ship's captain...
Grower's Market on Memorial Drive offers thousands of live Christmas trees, a Christmas shop with ornaments and artificial trees, and a menagerie of Christmas animals including a donkey, two deer, goats, two geese, and roosters...