August 3, 2001

U. of Massachusetts Course Confronts Students With Issues of Homelessness

"Students are used to thinking of the city as a place that does not belong to the homeless," says Christopher A.E. Carlisle, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Episcopal chaplain, but the homeless have their own city alongside the one most students know. It's the tour of this city-within-a-city given by the residents of a Boston shelter that marks the "crescendo" of "Homelessness & Shelter," the class that Mr. Carlisle has taught with the institution's Protestant chaplain, Kent

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