Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Questions also arose about exposing the condom machines to the heat of the laundry rooms. But according to Kristin M. Daly '89, co-director of Peer Contraceptive Counseling, the condoms will not be damaged by the heat. "It wouldn't damage the condoms if they're in the [condom] machine, unless [the machine] was attached to a dryer," she added...
Bennett, while at Harvard labelled student course choice in the Core a mixture of "Luck, serendipity, chance, peer pressure and a kind of institutional negligence." But a student's four years at college are expected to be a time of growth; a rehash of the Western ideals already indoctrinated during high school, which Bennett proposed two years ago, does not seem like a worthy goal, as it would further close minds which should be opened with new information...
...some (particularly for the advocates who become union officers) but it can be desperately unpleasant for many, particularly for those who may not have the zeal or objectives of the leadership. There can be all the stress of union meetings, oratory and public votes, with the nastiness of peer pressure, office friction and ostracism for dissidents. All of this, of course, is heightened and perpetuated if there is a "job action" or consideration...
...Pilbeam said peer pressure would not be aneffective way to increase participation. "We haveto accept the `no's," he said. He said the onlyway to boost the scope of the evaluation processis "to keep nagging" professors
...college campuses, particularly Harvard, help solve the problem? Increased awareness of sexual abuse and discrimination is needed, beyond the current bare minimum of enlightenment. It is the administration's duty to support peer counseling groups such as Response; publicize sexual harassment dangers to students and seriously punish and publicize offenders; condemn, not tolerate, sexual harassment of employees like Charlotte Walters, who recently sued Harvard; accord women professors the respect they deserve with fair hiring, tenure-granting, and job-distributing practices...