Some high school students who have participated in CHANCE praised the program's effectiveness in improving writing skills and motivating them to attend college.

Khari K. Streeter, 18, now a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, attributed part of his desire to attend college to CHANCE. "[It] definitely helped me. I got help with my writing skills immensely," he said.

Although CHANCE will begin classes on October 16, the program is still recruiting Harvard volunteers to serve as teachers and big brothers or sisters, Jackson said.

Student Groups Work Around Door-drop Ban

More than two weeks have passed since Kirkland and North Houses banned student organizations from distributing unsolicited publications to dorm rooms, and student groups have responded by trying to find ways to work around the policy.

Members of the Independent met with Kirkland House officials last week and were told that if they signed residents up for free subscriptions, they would be allowed to distribute to student rooms.

Since then, 95 percent of Kirkland residents have subscribed, and Independent staff plan to talk with North House masters to try to enact the same plan.

The Perspective protested the policy by sending an open letter to the House Masters, published in the Crimson, that maintained that the anti-door-drop-practice deprived "students of ideas and information."

Perspective business manager John A. Felitti '91 said, "even people who would normally read the publication won't if they have to pick it up at the dining hall and lug it back to their rooms."

Perspective staff have said that they would prefer not to institute a free subscriptions policy.