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While Harvard’s policies might not be conducive for safe drinking behavior, the school has indeed created mediums to educate students on safe drinking habits. In 2006, the Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors program, known as DAPA, was founded with the intention of educating students on safe drinking behavior. While this program was a good step for student safety, Harvard should push for alcohol education on more fronts. Specifically, the College should allow and encourage the plethora of upperclassmen advisors on campus to have an explicit conversation with their advisees about alcohol. These upperclassmen—including Peer...
...confront mental health issues. Harvard provides by-appointment mental health services through the BSC and UHS as well as 24-hour urgent care for students who need more immediate help than the appointment process can provide. In addition, students from Harvard’s peer-counseling groups—Room 13, ECHO, Response, and Contact—are readily available for trained peer-to-peer support. A system-wide approach to promoting mental health awareness has been initiated through the Student Mental Health Liaisons. This student group organizes and presents the annual...
...rooting for the Smothers Brothers, whose show was eventually canceled by CBS because of their antiwar banter. Immune to Berkeley radicalism and too "unhip" - his word - for Richard Pryor or Lenny Bruce, Hanks' comedic sensibility tilted more toward Bob Hope. Hanks was so square that he remembers rebuking a peer in his high school government class for saying in April 1974 that President Richard Nixon would be forced to resign. "I was historically smart enough to know that Presidents didn't just quit," Hanks says. "Not in America! That just doesn't happen!" (See the top 10 movies...
Harvard researchers estimate that The Family Van returns $36 for every $1 spent on preventative care, based on a formula developed and published last year in BMC Medicine, an online peer-reviewed journal...
...said the template for the forum has been created and the process of informally soliciting applications for moderators has begun, including reaching out to Peer Advising Fellows. However, the project is far from approval—the next step will be review by the UC Executive Committee...