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After decreasing in number each of the past four years, peer counseling outreaches to first-year students have been completely eliminated by the Freshman Dean’s Office...
Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans said that much of the information formerly distributed by the peer group is now provided by the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) and University Health Services (UHS) and through the FDO’s “Safe Community” programs at the start of the year...
...more pro-actively involved in addressing the issues around which the peer groups originally formed, and the College attempts to make students aware of the variety of resources now available and to encourage students to judge themselves which is most appropriate,” Nathans wrote in an e-mail...
Kristina N. Vetter ’04, co-director of peer counseling group ECHO, said the outreaches were often repetitive and had been revamped several times as a result of “dismal” reviews from first-years...
According to Nathans, information about the various peer counseling groups now reach students via a number of different avenues—including informational websites, FDO publications, proctor meetings and safety-kits distributed during orientation...