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Dinklage is the only UHS psychologist who interviews students for language disability, and he says the number of students visiting him every year remains fairly stable. "Some of them try to act dyslexic. But essentially that would involve lying to an officer of the University. Most freshmen are trying to put their best foot forward and don't do that." Some students with real disabilities exaggerate their symptoms: "It's obvious they're malingering, but they are also covering up a real problem," Dinklage says...
...controversy grows, so do Harvard's arts programs, most of which come out of the office of Myra A. Mayman, coordinator of arts at Harvard and Radcliffe. Not only does Mayman's office provide a large number of art opportunities--classes in dance, photography and pottery to name a few--it also provides money for independent student projects. Each year, Mayman allocates $10,000 to student artists whose work will "increase the understanding of art for all of Harvard" her office also provides subsidies for instrumental lessons with Boston musicians...
...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...
...into effect January 1, has forced Educational Testing Services (ETS), the nation's largest testing firm, to devote 50 full-time workers "just trying to cope," Mary Churchill, associate director of information for the firm, says that "coping" will probably mean a cutback in the number of tests given in New York, and an increase in the cost of the tests, perhaps for all test-takers, not just New Yorkers...
Originally, some had feared ETS would stop giving tests all together in New York. Now, though reductions in the number of tests given annually is likely, Churchill says, "I have heard no talk of a boycott." The only holdouts are the boards that administer the Medical College Admission Tests (MCATs) and Dental Aptitude Tests (DATs), both of which announced the day after the bill was passed that they were out of business in New York...