Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's editorial of Oct. 6 quotes a single sentence from an e-mail I sent on Oct. 1 in a way that misrepresents Harvard's position on alcohol abuse, suggesting that we may be guilty of "complacency about drinking at Harvard" and that I have "forgotten our precious final clubs...
...inquiry to me your reporter asserted, concerning a recent Senate resolution on binge drinking, that "most of [the proposed measures] I have noticed, Harvard has addressed in some way," and went on to note "the increased emphasis on the dangers and consequences of alcohol use during Freshman Week, and in the past year in general." In my response I repeated neither her own assertions nor any part of the following message, which I had e-mailed to a Crimson reporter on Sept...
...Dean of Students' Office should continue to look toward promoting social events on campus that do not involve alcohol, perhaps by directing more money to House Committees to be used for social functions that do not rely on alcohol to draw crowds...
Though we are concerned about the invasion of privacy allowed by the latter stipulation, the new anti-drinking initiatives are, on the whole, valuable in the fight to save lives from alcohol overconsumption. Here at Harvard, alcohol-related incidents that had gone unreported will now have to be revealed to the government. Those numbers may lead to a more accurate estimate of the prevalence of heaving drinking on campus...
Dean Lewis is right that Harvard is free of some of the alcohol-related pressures present at other schools; at MIT, for example, students are driven into a fraternity system in the search for better housing...