Word: formality
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...many of these veterans, the decision to attend graduate school evolves during their years of service. Equipped with a deep understanding of the public sector, formal training in the private sector becomes a logical next step. Graduate school provides a comforting answer to the “now what?” feeling experienced by recently released officers...
...hope to fully integrate its participants on a social level. Woodbridge has answered this need through a staggering gamut of social events, including its monthly cultural food party “Baraza” (Swahilli for “open house”), a speaker series, a winter formal, and the Society’s trademark party, “Fiesta Mondiale,” each spring. “My sort of leadership perception was that it should be really social,” outgoing Woodbridge President Karolis Balciunas ’08 says. “[Woodbridge...
...This may be in large part due to understaffing, but other resources on campus are drastically underutilized as well. It often seems as if there are more peer counselors than students using peer counseling services. Students rarely approach proctors and tutors about issues of mental and emotional health. Yes, formal training for these positions on such issues should be decidedly augmented, but it is hard to justify such training when students do not approach people in those positions for help in those areas. Students must voice their concerns about resources, but also must use the beneficial ones already in place...
Participating in formal campus peer support events—even just as a listener and supporter—is necessary to reduce stigma and show respect for other students. With so many sympathetic but Type A personalities here at Harvard, many believe that “it is fine for other people to have those problems—but not me!” How many students feel confined to the anonymous sites like tellyourstory.wikispaces.com and Bored@Lamont because they think their fellow students would look down on them as weak? Peer-to-peer stigma, a large reason why students...
...Dining Services is amazing, they got out popcorn chicken and tater tots and milk and juice and apples and brownies for all the kids that were here,” Pepper said. HUDS Director for Marketing and Communications Crista Martin said that while HUDS does not have a formal policy to address such situations, it does “all kinds of things in the neighborhood, and so we were just glad to be able to help them out.” According to Martin, students’ parents have sent e-mails to HUDS to express their gratitude?...