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Last Saturday night I was witness to a sordid train of events. The identities of those involved will not be divulged. Upon returning from a poetry reading, my friend and I entered her common room to discover an intoxicated, unconscious pre-frosh lying on the floor in a pool of her own vomit. My friend was not this poor girl's host, and neither were any of her roommates. In fact, this girl had been invited to consume some illegally acquired alcohol by another pre-frosh, who was staying in the room because her sister is one of my friend...
...take care of this poor girl, no one knew what would be the repercussions of taking her to University Health Services (UHS). Would she get in trouble? Would my friend and her roommates be punished by the University for something they had no part in? Would the pre-frosh who had originally acquired the alcohol have their standing here next year thrown into jeopardy? Would the hosts be the victims of disciplinary action for not monitoring their pre-frosh's every action, thus letting her drink herself into oblivion...
...dangerous state of affairs when a Harvard student's fear of University disciplinary or legal action discourages or prevents him or her from taking action, such as bringing a drunken underage student or pre-frosh to UHS--an act that might potentially be critical to that person's safety. Thus, since the University's top priority is the safety of its students (and pre-frosh), there does, apparently, exist a policy that no disciplinary action will result from taking a dangerously inebriated person...
...should eliminate any inhibition that students might have about taking an intoxicated fellow student to UHS. But if it is so poorly publicized that no one knows about it--and no one that night was sure even of the policy for Harvard students, much less pre-frosh--then the policy is ineffective. The fear of disciplinary action still discourages people from making sure that a fellow student whose alcohol consumption may have reached dangerous levels receives all appropriate medical attention...
...Undecided pre-frosh will be rushing to the post office with their Harvard acceptance cards in 2,880 minutes...