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It’s late on a Saturday night in the near future, and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has received a nightmare call. A student has died from alcohol intoxication after a night of binge drinking with a student organization??and was not taken to University Health Services (UHS). Soon afterwards, Gross must call the student’s parents to deliver the news...
Thanks to the College’s new alcohol policy—approved last week by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—he can place the blame on the student organization??s leaders and tell the parents those leaders will be punished. What he probably will not say is that if those same policies were not in place their son or daughter might still be alive...
Harvard Medical School received a C+ from the American Medical Students Association (AMSA) last week for its efforts to limit pharmaceutical company access to students. The organization??s first annual PharmFree Scorecard evaluated policies on pharmaceutical access at 116 American medical schools. The ranking is part of AMSA’s efforts to combat what its Web site calls the “insidious influence of the pharmaceutical industry in medicine.” Outgoing AMSA President Jay Bhatt, who helped lead the Scorecard project, said interactions with drug company representatives can prejudice medical judgment...
...approved revisions to the Handbook for Students that would make leaders of recognized and non-recognized student groups subject to review by the Administrative Board if their members or guests experience “serious harm” resulting from excessive alcohol consumption or hazing at the organization??s gatherings...
Some administrators and students who support activity based learning have advocated using the existing programs at the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA)—the student-run public service organization??as a starting point for a University-coordinated ABL initiative, citing the success of such an approach among the small number of courses that already have an ABL component...