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...think parental control is perhaps not the deciding factor for teenagers. They are so much more influenced by their peer group. I do not present myself as a person who has been able to stop all my children from getting into trouble with drugs. I tried very hard...
...Confidential means the results are written on your permanent medical record," says Tobias B. Kasper '97, former co-director of Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC), a member of the UHS task force on HIV policies and a volunteer at AIDS Action Committee in Boston...
Climbing the soon-to-be-carpeted fire-escape staircases to the third floor, the dark rooms are illuminated by "home-plate" shaped windows which peer towards the ivory towers of Dunster and Lowell...
...atmosphere in which students are considered responsible enough to judge their own actions. Under the current system, the Administrative Board plays the role of wrist-slapping parent to erstwhile children; under a system with an honor code, the disciplinary body would necessarily include students and be more of a peer review. Harvard would be making a great contribution to the world if it instituted an honor code whereby students signed an ethical contract upon arriving here, for it would be guiding not only the scholastic pursuits but also the moral lives of the future leaders of this country...
...antidrug program installed in nearly 80% of America's school districts, has failed to prove itself effective. Originated in Los Angeles in 1983 under the administration of Daryl F. Gates, who was then police chief, D.A.R.E. sends police into the schools to present 17 sessions on specific drugs, resisting peer pressure and like topics, sometimes using an array of "D.A.R.E.-ephernalia," from charts and bumper stickers to T shirts and talking robots...