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...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Health Services, has ordered an emergency investigation into the snapping of fiberglass poles during Harvard's track season. Four of the light-weight poles have splintered in a "potentially dangerous" way in meets and practices since the beginning of the year...
...Farnsworth said Sunday that "the danger of somebody becoming impaled" on a splintered pole was too great for the University to take. He added that he did not want to hurt the sport, but expressed fears that someone might be injured if Harvard did not take "appropriate precautions...
According to Farnsworth, the FCAS decided last Wednesday that the situation had become serious enough to warrant a full-scale survey. Farnsworth said the FCAS would report its findings to the committee on sports of the American Medical Association...
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...University has started poorly. The letter from Dana L. Farnsworth, chief of the University Health Service, and Dean Watson, declared that students should not take "mind-distorting drugs" because they are bad. Granted, such a move puts the University in the safe position of having warned its students, and provides Boston with banner headlines for a day; still it probably did not prevent a single undergraduate so determined from taking drugs, while it may have aroused the curiosity of those who had been indifferent. If the University is to guide its students, it must do so by providing information about...