Word: cohen
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Open from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. seven days a week, Room 13 is an all-night source of support and counseling for Harvard undergraduates. "It gives people a place where we can help them listen to themselves," says Deborah C. Cohen '86, one of the program's two co-directors. One man and one woman sacrifice their sleep every night to staff the basement office in Stoughton Hall, providing a referral service to other agencies and listening to and talking about people's problems--serious or major, important...
...whole variety of life gets reflected in the calls we get," says Cohen. Thirty student counselors deal with such wide-ranging subjects as contraceptives and eating problems, rape and suicide, sexual harassment, cross-cultural problems, and death. "We can be very serious or very casual," says Cohen. "We're not going to drag a problem out of a person, but we're there if somebody [has a serious problem]. They can walk in and start crying if they want to, and we won't be shocked...
...There was a need for students to be able to talk to students about things going on on campus," says Cohen. "There was a lot of distress between students and the administration and any sort of professional counseling." She says that Room 13 helped fill the void created by the reluctance to get professional help in the early...
While they do not know one another, they have a common bond in sharing the most common name in the student directory, according to David S. Cohen '88. He says, "I enjoy looking through the phone book just to make sure that no name's competing...
...David J. Cohen says he worries more about a mix-up between him and a David Cohen who didn't get into Harvard. "There was a David J. Cohen in my high school," he says, "actually, I'm not the one who's supposed to be here...