Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressed by the sympathetic coverage of the recent alleged crime of violence against a female student and the report on MIT's plan to toughen its alcohol policy (News, Feb. 6). So wrapped up in pride at the responsible reporting of my school's newspaper was I that reading the headline "Students Battle Blues" completely took me by surprise. In your report on depression in the Harvard community, depression, a mental illness which has a lifetime epidemiological prevalence of 5 percent in the U.S. population, was portrayed as an unseemly response which some people facing a bad set of circumstances...
While masters anticipate future dialogues--including talk about a multicultural student center, concerns about the state's alcohol policy and rumblings about a thirteenth House--last week's Council of Masters meeting highlighted a growing concern shared by many: the hope to make the House more of an academic community...
...example, "in the wake of the MIT death, werevisited alcohol policy," says Winthrop HouseMaster Paul D. Hanson...
...statement urged Harvard Squareestablishments to "be strict" in carding studentsand cautioned athletic teams, singing groups andother student organizations to "observe allrelevant regulations" regarding alcohol-relatedpractices...
...what of Henri Paul, the chauffeur so loaded with alcohol that his vision may have been blurred as he smashed into the Alma tunnel's 13th pillar? Sancton and MacLeod reveal Paul's history of daredevil stunts in passenger planes, and how his final stunt was to drink whiskey-strength aperitifs -- right under the noses of Dodi Fayed's bodyguards. Another irony: Mohammed Al-Fayed, in his first post-crash interview, tells Sancton and MacLeod how he begged Dodi not to go from the rear of the hotel with a substitute driver. Dodi didn't heed Mohammed's advice...