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Last year, I cowrote a cover story for this magazine on depression and mental illness at Harvard. Staff members from Room 13, the oldest and most prominent peer counseling group on campus, said that the most common reason students seek them is insecurity. “It’s not that Harvard expects so much from us,” a staff member told me. “It’s us.” Many Harvard students have set impossibly high standards for themselves, and the gauntlet of inevitable rejections that Harvard presents can—does?...
...Voicestream Wireless, the Square’s newest cellular provider, won’t open its Mass. Ave. location for another week, its display of phones already has customers salivating. As assistant manager Joy Tommaro sits on the store’s window seat leafing through papers, curious pedestrians peer through the glass attempting to get a glimpse of the colorful posters and displays inside. One man even breezes in through the open door to examine the rate plans...
...combining knowledge with virtue and to find our own personal ways of serving others. But the ultimate responsibility for insisting on the priorities of this University lies with the students. There are many avenues for social action—mentoring and after-school programs as well as advocacy and peer counseling—and I was gratified to know of so many new students seeking those avenues through the First-Year Urban Program and the First-Year Day of Service, and to see them streaming through the PBHA open houses. We should strive with them and with relief effort participants...
Closing time in downtown Boston, post-clubbing: Exiting the Roxy, I notice a black limo passing. Four small American flags flutter on the vehicle—ambassadorial style. Drunk men peer out of its darkened windows, waving 40s of malt liquor in hand and yelling, “Go America! Go America! Go America!” All the party people, standing on a sidewalk still wet from rain, reward this chant with a tipsy round of applause...
...students settle in over the weekend, they meet the rest of their five-person intervention team. In addition to their mentor, their academic adviser and dean for first-year students Nasteff, the freshmen are introduced to that traditional student counselor, the resident adviser, and one more peer contact that reflects the college's Baptist background--a student called a shepherd, whose role is spiritual guidance. That guidance can mean helping freshmen study for midterms or praying with them. Jewell's campus is ecumenical--no religion courses or pledge of faith is required, and the student-senate leader is Jewish...