Word: peers
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Established about ten years ago in Room 13 of Mather House, the service originated as a peer-counseling group for students with drug problems. But Joanne Burger '81, co-coordinator of the service says, as heavy drug use at Harvard declined, Room 13 evolved into a more broadly defined organization, providing confidential help to students with problems and questions of every sort...
Room 13's difficulties are not unique. Peer counseling services at other schools seem to have problems similar to those of Room 13. According to Thomas Bechtel, dean of student counseling at Brown, the services of Student-to-Student, Brown's version of Room 13, "aren't that heavily utilized" because of the misconception that "You've got to be pretty lonely" to use them. T. L. Hill, a junior at Brown and co-coordinator of Student-to-Student, adds that like Room 13, his program has a problem reaching upperclassmen, especially sophomores and juniors, who, unlike freshman and seniors...
...strengths of Brown's counseling program, its offerings for minorities, is a major weakness of peer counseling at Harvard. At Brown there is a live-in minority peer counselor in almost every dormitory and Bechtel says these students address the special needs of minority students. But at Harvard, Seigelman says, "A lot of minority students think Room 13 is not for them." For example, some members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association feel Room 13 counselors "can't counsel someone who's gay," he says...
Your article on the growing row over "peer review" implied that the academic community was overwhelmingly in favor of secret deliberations regarding faculty hirings and promotions. In fact, a good many academics would welcome a more open evaluation process. The prevalence of cronyism and prejudice in faculty advancement has diminished in recent years, but the only way to stamp it out entirely is to make these peer-review deliberations open to those with a legitimate involvement...
...Republican hit list, he has had to fend off attacks not only from his feisty opponent, four-term Republican Congressman Steven Symms, but also from combative conservatives who have formed an organization called ABC-Anyone but Church. Amid Idaho's piny woods and parched plains, where voters peer skeptically out from under their cowboy hats and pop questions like gunshots, the candidates are waging one of the rowdiest, most name-calling campaigns in the nation...