Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...headline for an article in last Wednesday's issue about an emergency meeting to discuss rape prevention was inaccurate. The meeting's organizers included members from Response and Room 13, but the peer counseling groups themselves did not sponsor the event...
...while our situation is a little different from most, we believe that for almost all eligible students, taking Advanced Standing is a good idea. This observation is based on having advised hundreds of first-years as Advanced Standing peer counselors over the past three years, having been through the experience ourselves and having talked to faculty, administrators and countless juniors and seniors about the role of Advanced Standing in the college experiences...
Master's degrees, better summer jobs, advantages in housing and Core lotteries, study abroad--the most compelling reason to take Advanced Standing is that it opens up more options. Every year, peer counselors, the Freshman Dean's Office and the Registrar get phone calls from anxious seniors wondering if they still have Advanced Standing. They do, and they can enjoy the benefits (usually taking fewer classes) their senior spring. And as they kick back, sip their drinks and leaf through their completed theses, they wonder why they wasted any energy worrying about the Advanced Standing decision three years before...
Gopal Garuda '99 and Lonne A. Jaffe '99 are peer counselors in the Advanced Standing office...
...failed Statistics, didn't get an interview with Morgan Stanley and your boyfriend took a permanent vacation. Complaints by students "feeling depressed" often elicit a range of peer responses ranging from stigma to careless dismissal, but few can say they consider these comments symptoms of a serious medical condition requiring treatment...