Word: health
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eliminate the biannual physical stress test, which the police felt increased insecurity over their jobs (if an officer didn't pass the test he was removed from the force). "I think it did something for the morale of the police department and the morale of the people in the health services," Chafin says. Responding to union complaints of three years ago, the department has also improved the quality of the equipment officers use. Chafin claims the new emergency equipment and a new fleet of police cruisers with alley lights and better radios, have bettered the police image and, consequently, morale...
Every year dozens of hopeful students trudge over to University Health Services (UHS), praying that maybe--just maybe--they can skirt the one-year language requirement. They're not Francophobes, and they don't really believe German was designed to be understood only by Bavarians, but they abhor the idea of anything to do with bon mots in exotic tongues...
...Paul A. Walters. Jr. chief of Mental Health Services (MHS) at the University Health Services (UHS), prides himself on his awareness of the little things that go on around the college. "Students don't usually think much about it," the 20 year Harvard veteran tells you in what remains of a childhood Southern drawl, "but over here, we know the difference between Eliot and Winthrop House." Why? "Because we have...
...surprisingly, Walters has dealt with more than a few cases where students expressed suicidal tendencies. While he and other college health officials are reluctant to release actual figures, he says that the number of suicides a year at Harvard is almost negligible. Because there are so few cases, UHS officials hesitate to reveal any facts, for fear that identities may be discovered. "You hear a lot about the suicide rate going up among the young people in the country," Walters admits, but he adds quickly that this trend has not hit Harvard. He doesn't beat around the bush; when...
Students who visit the MHS, says Walters, are very concerned about the confidentiality of the contents of their visits. Therapists treat such meetings with great care. As the "Guide to the University Health Services" notes, "Communications between a therapist and a client are kept in strictest confidence unless someone's life is in danger or serious bodily harm to someonw is threatened." Harvard students, Walters asserts, are not concerned with the stigma attached to seeing a psychiatrist. "Most people that come to the MHS, he says, "know how to use it, how what they want, and use it well...