Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...task force has supported many drug prevention programs in the Cambridge area. Chief among these is one which supplies mini-grants to youth organizations to train peer counselors...
...more than just a Westernized preference for cappuccino over tea. They also carry with them a penchant for challenging the status quo. Until recently, Asian funding agencies still doled out research money according to traditional egalitarian formulas, with little regard for quality. Now they are being pressured to establish peer-review panels staffed by scientific experts to gauge the merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors and its reluctance to question...
However, I would also argue that it would be irresponsible if Response or any other peer group failed to recognize that issues like racism and homophobia and sexual harassment do affect the emotions of specific people...
...Peer counseling groups are not designed as a long-term therapy resource. We recognize that we are not the only or the best places for every person on campus to turn, and our posters don't advertise us as such...
...want students to consider peer groups safe, confidential, and anonymous places where they can continue or begin to talk. Unfortunately, I fear that David Goldbrenner's strategy of criticism has invalidated the personal concerns of many students with his self righteous attitude. Neda Ratanawongsa...