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Despite the steps that Harvard takes to promote safe drinking, the number of students who have been brought in for alcohol-related issues is on the rise for the second year in a row, according to the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services.
In 2006, Harvard started the Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors program, whose advisors are known as DAPAs, and since the program was started, incoming freshmen are required to attend a meeting on safe drinking. DAPAs also provide grants for alcohol-safe parties on campus. Harvard freshmen also are required to complete...
Nevertheless, the data suggests 43 percent increase in the number of patients since two years ago, and that an “an inordinately high percentage of students that report drinking hard alcohol”—which leads to more hospitalizations. A Crimson article, cites that the number...
The problem is, however helpful DAPA and AlcoholEDU might be, they will never been able to counteract the real culprit that facilitate binge drinking: Harvard’s amnesty policy. As stated in the Handbook for Students, if someone is brought into University Health Services because of alcohol related issues...
What students are taking away from DAPA and AlcoholEDU is not that they should adjust their drinking habits so they don’t have to go to UHS, but that they should adjust their attitude to UHS so they don’t have to change their drinking habits...