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...just call Harvard, and some nerd at a desk will tell me what I want to do,’” Schafer said. Christopher P. Jones, a Classics professor, said he does not believe that the department should give out translations gratis.“My belief on the whole is we’re not a service and that people should not suppose that we are just around to give out information for free,” Jones said.“When I say I’ll do it for $100, they normally look somewhere...
...depression, anxiety, eating issues, and the like. Students dealing with these common, but often serious issues, sometimes feel that they have to go it alone because getting help is an unacceptable sign of weakness. This week represents an exciting opportunity for the entire campus to change the occasionally justified belief that Harvard is a place where students don’t watch out for one another...
...People who subscribe to this belief fail to understand several fundamental facts about psychiatric disorders and medications. Antidepressants—that is, serotonin and serotonin-norepenephrine reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs and SNRIs—relieve symptoms of clinical depression by balancing levels of certain chemicals in the brain. Psychiatrists believe that if a person who does not suffer from clinical depression—that is, who has healthy brain chemistry—were to take an antidepressant, he would experience any number of negative side effects while not getting any benefit from the medication...
While Pinker addressed the psychology behind guilt, Thurman—the first American ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist Monk—discussed the concept of immortal guilt in the Buddhist belief of reincarnation...
...students and a teacher were killed, the school formed committees to carefully consider the building's fate. "Right after the tragedy, emotions were high, very high," recalls Frank DeAngelis, the school's principal for the last dozen years. The committees dismissed suggestions to demolish the building. "There was the belief that if we tore down the buildings, the two murderers would have won," DeAngelis says, referring to the high school seniors who staged the Columbine attacks. Instead, the school opened the floor of the library where most of the students were murdered to create an atrium above the cafeteria...