Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wide cash register and 2-ft.-tall puppets to a video-game room where visitors can try their hand at running dozens of different types of firms. There will even be a Hall of Giants in which colossal likenesses of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and other business heroes peer far above the heads of passersby...
...Alcohol Concerns Committee to coordinate the counseling programs and to devise an alcohol policy. It requires all groups to provide non-alcoholic beverages at parties and publicizes the penalties of violating the law in New Hampshire, where the drinking age is 20, said John J. Donovan, head of the peer counseling program...
...help the peer counselors "get in touch with their feelings" about alcohol, they take part in a six-session minicourse, said Stephen J. Nelson, chairman of the committee. The course includes a week-long period of abstinence...
Despite their training, the counselors do not profess that they are professionals, and Ellen L. Shapiro, a peer counselor, emphasized her volunteer position. "I'm not an expert, I'm just a little less confused and more informed than most people," she said...
Dartmouth students interviewed said they believed the programs, especially the peer counselors, were addressing the drinking dilemma. "We're such an enclosed community that there is very little to do except drink," said Sean M. Borgeson, president of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. "It can get out of hand...