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...MHS: First of all, in rehearsal you just have to trust that it's a funny play. You just have to take it on faith. This play has been done before and people have liked it, so you know just say the lines...this is where most of the work is going to be. As far as the timing goes, it's not a joke-heavy play. There's not a lot of one-liners, or zingers (that's a showbiz word for jokes). So it all sort of comes out of the conversation, the reparte, the bonhomie...
...MHS: [laughter] Can I plead the Fifth? No, I'm just kidding. This cast is fantastic. There's no way the play would have happened without the cast we have. A whole bunch of us were in the callback together, and even in the callback we agreed that things were happening already...I think that everyone is really strong. And it's totally an ensemble piece...
...recent years, however, more seniors have been visiting the MHS. The predominant malaise of students today is uncertainty," Walters says flatly. Most of the students who use MHS "feel in distress from a choice of purposes--a career problem, the future, self-confidence or a family situation," he explains. Pre-professionalism has clearly had an impact outside of the classroom. In what he labels a society gone back to a "scarcity model," Walters asks, "What does a young person base his self respect...
...Chapel Hill and studied medicine around the corner at Duke University. After he was lured to Harvard in 1956, Walters moved up through the ranks to become assistant director of UHS and chief of psychiatry. When his division was fused with the psychological section in 1976--and the MHS was conceived--Walters was appointed chief of the new division. In the late 1960s, Walters taught a General Education course which covered the topics of drugs and adolescent development. Although he still lectures occasionally at the Medical School, he says he misses teaching undergraduates. "I felt that I learned more about...
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...