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Tents Along The Merrimack: Homelessness And University-Community Cooperation, Mark D. Levine
Tents Along The Merrimack: Homelessness And University-Community Cooperation, Mark D. Levine
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article presents historical, institutional, and ethical contexts for a university and an industrial, ethnic community's cooperative effort to address local hunger and homelessness. A large portion of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell's students are of working-class and local origin. Neighborhood social problems are in effect their own, and community service may be considered a variant of self-help. Attention is paid the special importance of developing a sense of community across traditional boundaries on and off campus and to the establishment of permanent mutually beneficial structures.