Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course many students have found adequate help from professionals both at UHS and the Bureau of Study Counsel. But because institutionally, these offices are so disjoined from one another and from the Tutor's office, entering the support system is difficult. A month before Dominic J. Amijo '95 hanged himself, he tried killing himself at home, but the psychiatrist affiliated with Harvard had not informed the House masters. This fragmented support network needs to be fixed...
Fermi died prematurely of stomach cancer in Chicago in 1954. He had argued against U.S. development of the hydrogen bomb when that project was debated in 1949, calling it "a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide." His counsel went unheeded, and the U.S.-Soviet arms race that ensued put the world at mortal risk. But the discovery of how to release nuclear energy, in which he played so crucial a part, had long-term beneficial results: the development of an essentially unlimited new source of energy and the forestalling, perhaps permanently, of world-scale...
...Bureau of Study Counsel has assisted SCOPE with financial transactions, according to Chan...
...parents fail to referee? While the study did not document the reasons, experts offered several possibilities. In some cases, parents may be influenced by the oversimplified counsel that "kids will be kids." Others may be worried about favoring one child over another and choose to do nothing. Child psychiatrist Leon Hoffman, who runs the Parent Child Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, says many parents are afraid of being too aggressive and then take a permissive, hands-off approach...
...While no one from the University was available to confirm the engagement of Lukey, who was not present at this week's meetings, she served as Harvard's counsel in the Clare Dalton tenure case, which ended in a $260,000 settlement in 1992. Dalton, a former HLS professor, sued Harvard in the late 1980s claiming gender discrimination...