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Apparently, nothing gets Harvard's political juices flowing like...well, juice itself. Dining halls across campus echo with whines over juice selection. Adams has six juices, Currier only...
Soon afterwards, three new peer counselinggroups were formed and each group developed itsownoutreaches. Response, the peer counseling groupspecializing in rape, sexual abuse and sexualharassment, was formed and developed an outreachfirst. The other peer counseling groups, EatingConcerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) and Contact,dealing with sex, sexuality, sexual orientationand relationships, followed shortly. Room 13'sgroup discussions used to be limited to shortpresentations after Response outreaches. Only thisyear did they begin outreaches on their...
When she first joined ECHO, an East Coast electronic community, Marcia Bowe dubbed herself ``Miss Outer Buro 1991,'' a handle that facetiously implied beauty queen-like poise, glamour, congeniality. And soon enough, Bowe was enjoying the adulation of fellow ``ECHOids'' who posted messages praising her wit, candor and smarts. Such celebrity was heady stuff for Bowe, a free-lance writer who describes herself in real life as shy and wary of emotional encounters. ``I became addicted to this constant stream of approval,'' she says. ``It was like a big co-dependency machine.'' As Bowe began spending up to 100 hours...
...real.'' Denizens of virtual villages respond that what they have constructed is as real as anything three-dimensional. ``The online world is not utopia,'' says ECHO founder Stacy Horn. ``We take all our problems, needs, strangeness, biases and prejudices online with us.'' In short, members take themselves along for the ride. ``People who have troubles with their friends in the real world think they'll come online and have lots of friends, and it's not true,'' says Horn. ``They have equal trouble establishing friendships in cyberspace.'' In most online communities, the esprit is fiercely democratic. When crises arise, they...
Honest Talk The conversation on ECHO is more thoughtful and civilized than on a lot of other services, in part because almost 40% of the members of this New York City-based community are women. Try the Culture and Psych conferences...