Word: formality
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...bared my soul to convince this doctor to tell a University administrator about my debilitating mental health issues, who would then pass along the information to an unknown number of administrators. I found it sadly ironic that my first interaction with therapy at Harvard was bureaucratic and formal. No one at Harvard had encouraged me to seek help my freshman year until this academic crisis. At a personal level, the strange experience of making a case for my own sadness robbed my mental health of its dignity. As a result, the eventual decision to allow me to remain at school...
...People here don’t read The Crimson,” he explained. “You should make a formal complaint...
...given by concentrators in the social sciences. Now, as economics department chair James H. Stock admitted to The Crimson, students will have little reason to visit Littauer’s tiny classrooms for any reason other than “to get their study cards signed or to attend formal office hours with faculty members.” Both an artist and an economist can see the problem with that...
...crimes such as child abuse. The bill, which would give additional funds to victims' assistance programs, is gaining support in the legislature. While victims' advocates and some members of the legal community, including judges and prosecutors, have pushed for counseling on an ad hoc basis, there has been little formal, funded support for post-trial jury counseling in most federal and state courts...
...called, has been used in several high-profile cases including the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Oklahoma City bombing case, according to the National Center for State Courts in Arlington, Va. But there is no institutionalized system at either the state or federal court level and only one formal, funded debriefing program in the country - Seattle, Washington's King County court system, which has an ongoing contract with a local mental health center...