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...siblings sit in front of a tiny, oval-shaped camera. Their mom is visible onscreen--dressed in a blue prison-issue jumpsuit. When the monitor suddenly goes dark, a counselor jiggles the mouse to make the picture reappear. Chevas asks his mom when she is coming home. She flashes three fingers, the number of months until her release. He marks off the days on a calendar. "It's really hard, being that I want to see them and touch them," Barrett says. "But if it weren't for this program, I wouldn't be able to see them...
...could never happen to me" attitude is apparent in Harvard's abysmally sub-par rape prevention and rape survivor services. No women's center. No mandatory orientation for first-year or upper-class students on sexual assault. No victim's advocacy program. No guarantee of seeing a trained rape counselor or psychologist regularly after experiencing rape. No rape prevention/counseling center. No full-time employee of the College whose job is to raise awareness and decrease occurrence of rape. No professional speaker or workshop during first-year orientation week. One will find these resources all over the country and throughout...
...author of Positive Discipline for Teenagers, felt terrible after she caught her eighth-grader drinking with friends, but worse after she told their parents and then one of the kids got a beating. In iffy cases, it might be better to contact a child's teacher or guidance counselor...
...company is paid on a contract-to-contract basis by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. So far, Dichter has brokered 75 deals involving the transfer of production technologies. "It's a laborious process that sometimes involves a lot of hand holding, almost like being a marriage counselor," Dichter says...
...rank in the top 10% of her class. Numerically speaking, she lagged far behind most accepted applicants. But her essay and recommendations indicated a strong interest in civil rights and personal experience with racial discrimination. She was admitted. "All the newspapers say affirmative action is done," says a veteran counselor at a large New York City high school. "But nothing has changed. I have a [minority] kid at Yale with an SAT score in the high 900s...