Word: counselors
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...suicide haunted Anita Rutnam long before she arrived at Syracuse University. The Winchester, Mass., teenager had a history of mental illness and had even attempted to kill herself. During her junior year of college, she tried again. On a February morning in 1998, just days after a campus counselor recommended she be hospitalized for her suicidal tendencies, Rutnam threw herself off the eighth floor of a Syracuse dormitory and fell 90 ft. to the patio below...
...ancient Greek philosopher Isocrates said that the greatest loyalty any counselor could show a prince was to be frank and candid. It is more important for a prince, said Isocrates, to surround himself with those who disagree with him than it is to rely on those who echo his point of view. "Frankness is a virtue in a counselor," Isocrates wrote, "who must risk the ire of princes foolish enough to be offended when contradicted...
Cara Vazquez, 17, a high school senior in Southampton, N.Y., thinks attending a women's college "would be unnatural after being in a coed environment my whole life." But Ann Donick, a guidance counselor at Vazquez's school, believes some women still achieve more at an all-female college, where "their intelligence and value are never questioned, which is still not always the case at a coed school...
...Cara Vazquez, 17, a high school senior in Southampton, N.Y., thinks attending a women's college "would be unnatural after being in a coed environment my whole life." But Ann Donick, a guidance counselor at Vazquez's school, believes some women still achieve more at an all-female college, where "their intelligence and value are never questioned, which is still not always...
Sigmund Diamond, a Communist for nine years, had been offered a position as counselor for foreign students and dean of special students. But when Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy learned of his Communist past, he told Diamond he would have to turn over a list of his political associates or he would lose the offer. Diamond refused and left for Columbia University...