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CORRECTION: The April 20 news article "Police Ponder Safety Concerns" incorrectly implied that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) would lead training sessions for the University's mental health staff in response to the Virginia Tech shootings. In fact, HUPD will only be a participant in the joint training sessions, and the meetings were previously planned...
...calendar with its January examinations actually poses some pedagogical advantages. The fact that our calendar does not conform to those found in other places is hardly reason in and of itself for change, and I will need to hear a great deal more about the “mental health” argument before I can take it as a serious reason for change. And while we are speaking of quality of life issues, what happens in that remarkably fecund period between Thanksgiving and Christmas when plays, concerts, dinners, and all of the exuberance of fall term extracurricular life have...
...doors of Memorial Church open until 8:45 a.m. this morning for those wishing to stay for silent prayer and meditation. “Harvard students asked for this vigil and I’m happy to oblige them,” Gomes said. Richard D. Kadison, chief of mental health at the Harvard University Health Services, said that there will be a drop-in group this afternoon at 4 p.m. for those who wish to discuss the tragedy. “We have seen a number of students here at mental health services and at the Bureau of Study...
...first significant federal gun control law, passed back in 1968 in reaction to the Kennedy assassination five years earlier, prohibited anyone involuntarily committed to a mental institution from buying firearms. Forty years later, that still remains the standard for most federal and state gun buying restrictions. The problem is that involuntary commitment was the norm four decades ago; family members, doctors and law enforcement could easily commit troubled souls to psychiatric hospitals with scant paperwork and little concern for individual or privacy rights. When Cho agreed to a voluntary committal to a psychiatric facility in 2005, he was benefiting from...
...least one prominent gun rights advocate admits that the 1968 gun-buying mental health standard might give people like Cho too much benefit of the doubt. Stephen P. Halbrook, a constitutional lawyer who recently was involved in the appeals court victory for gun rights advocates challenging the Washington, D.C., handgun prohibition law, thinks the time may have come for a reconsideration of those 1968 guidelines. "I'm not going to advocate new restrictions, with the exception that it should be at least a consideration that people with disabilities who have been adjudicated to be mentally ill and a danger...