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Travia in turn created the Drug and Alcohol Peer Adviser (DAPA) program, a group of about 21 undergraduates that educates students about the effects of drugs and alcohol and attempts to change the culture surrounding drinking at Harvard...
Over 160 people—from professional climbers to members of the Rugby team dressed in drag—crammed into Lowell basement on Friday and Saturday nights to partake in a free rock climbing event hosted by the Drug and Alcohol Peers Advisors (DAPA). The organization, which reports to the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, paid for students to climb for free in order to provide them with an alternative social activity. “There’s a momentum to go and drink and do the normal party scene,” said Christopher...
...said BACCHUS Network Vice President and COO Janet E. Cox. Travia, who came to Harvard in August 2005, is the university’s first director of alcohol and other drug services. He is responsible for the school’s Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor (DAPA) program, through which 30 undergraduates have received training in drug and alcohol education and counseling. DAPA member Shiv M. Gaglani ‘10 proposed nominating Travia for the award. “Ryan has single-handedly started this whole program,” Gaglani said. “He?...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) would therefore have been wise to take Pilbeam’s advice and recommit its poorly regulated party grants to other causes, such as the DAPA grant program, class-wide social events, and some of our 390 student organizations...
There were no multi-billionaire CEOs or former U.S. presidents on hand, but a graduating class of 17 Harvard students was all smiles Tuesday night after becoming the College’s newest Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisers (DAPAs). At just over 15 months old, the DAPA program is still young and evolving—but holding strong to the belief that peer advisers are the best vehicles for distribution of alcohol safety information to the Harvard community. “This is such an exciting program because the students are here completely voluntarily,” says lead DAPA...