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...cause certain types of behavioral changes. "There's no one symptom that's going to leap out to a parent," says Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the author of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. "It's rather a whole cluster of changes in behavior and mood and sleep and eating patterns and energy levels." Professionals tell parents to look for dramatic changes in behavior or appearance, changes in weight, changes in performance in school. Any talk about wanting to die or commit suicide should make a parent go on red alert...
Onie founded Project HEALTH--Helping Advocate and Learn Through Health--in 1996. It is a cluster of volunteer programs designed to combat the link between low income and poor pediatric health through community-based and clinic-based programs at the Boston Medical Center...
...Dartmouth proposals for the construction of new on-campus housing are bold. The board has called for the creation of housing clusters where students of similar interests can live together. These clusters of students would be based in residence halls but students would be allowed to choose in which cluster they would live. This plan preserves the choice of residence that most Dartmouth students are accustomed to, and increases their options since students will be able to choose to live outside of the Greek system with the same freedom as they are able to choose within...
Dartmouth's board has emphasized student groupings around interest. Already, students at Dartmouth are highly separated by their residences, both in Greek houses and interest houses. While the board emphasized an "overarching community" which would bring together the cluster communities there is a concern that the current separation of students by interest would continue under the new system. While the student choice that the board proposed is attractive, it may lead to self-segregation...
Richmond points to the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, a cluster of classrooms on the third floor of the Science Center...