Stanford Alumni in Cambridge Promote Big-Brother Project

Two Stanford athletes will introduce the idea of a big-brother program for Harvard athletes and Cambridge youths tomorrow night at a 7:30 p.m. Phillips Brooks House meeting.

"We want to get Harvard athletes to work with disadvantaged junior high school boys," Chris Avery, former student director of the Stanford Athlete Big-Brother program, said yesterday.

Avery says the program is valuable in reducing tensions between the University and its community.

He said he is enthusiastic about the response he has received so far at Harvard about the youth program.

At the University of Southern California and Nebraska, Avery said he did not have much success because he found their athletic departments preoccupied with big-time football.

Traveling across country in a car donated by the Ford Motor Company, the Stanford athletes have visited U.S.C., Washington, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Northeastern. Similar big brother programs are being established at these schools. After Harvard they will finish their nationwide campaign by visiting Yale, Duke and Alabama.