Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble? Would my friend and her roommates be punished by the University for something they had no part in? Would the pre-frosh who had originally acquired the alcohol have their standing here next year thrown into jeopardy? Would the hosts be the victims of disciplinary action for not monitoring their pre-frosh's every action, thus letting her drink herself into oblivion...
...anxious to do everything to ensure the safety of this girl, all of us were preoccupied to a greater or lesser degree with our possible liabilities. In the absence of any certain knowledge, the extent of possible punishment, in our minds, went beyond dismissal from Harvard to possible legal action...
...dangerous state of affairs when a Harvard student's fear of University disciplinary or legal action discourages or prevents him or her from taking action, such as bringing a drunken underage student or pre-frosh to UHS--an act that might potentially be critical to that person's safety. Thus, since the University's top priority is the safety of its students (and pre-frosh), there does, apparently, exist a policy that no disciplinary action will result from taking a dangerously inebriated person...
...have about taking an intoxicated fellow student to UHS. But if it is so poorly publicized that no one knows about it--and no one that night was sure even of the policy for Harvard students, much less pre-frosh--then the policy is ineffective. The fear of disciplinary action still discourages people from making sure that a fellow student whose alcohol consumption may have reached dangerous levels receives all appropriate medical attention...
...topics, I think no one would argue that the University's first priority is to keep its students--and future students--safe. The degree to which the University is committed to this is evidenced by the policy that taking an intoxicated student to UHS will not result in disciplinary action. However, if the application of this policy can suffer as serious a failure as it did last Saturday night, when a dozen students were all scared to take critical action, then this policy needs to be much better publicized by the administration, if it is truly determined to make every...