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...Harvard has often been caricatured as a cold and unforgiving school if you are struggling with emotional problems. In that caricature, getting help represents failure. These misperceptions don’t reflect the reality that nearly 50 percent of graduating seniors have taken advantage of counseling or mental health services on or off campus at least once during their years here. The perception that people who seek help are weak detracts from ongoing efforts on behalf of a number of people and organizations to improve mental health services on campus...
...wellbeing of the community. Developing a caring campus, in part, depends on recognizing how excessive stress can be debilitating to individuals and then our entire community. In multiple surveys our students repeatedly report that stress is the major impediment to academic performance. Indeed, surveys consistently show that almost 50 percent of students feel overwhelmed in a way that has interfered with their academic work at some time during the past year. Only by developing a caring attitude towards each other and being willing to care for our own well-being will we be able to address and improve the culture...
...striking pattern of high-school-to-college-major science attrition is a well-documented educational phenomenon; it is certainly not specific to Harvard. A nationwide study of 115,300 Life Sciences undergraduates reported in the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators (2008) found that 51 percent of students entering university intending to major in the life sciences switched out of the life sciences over their college careers. Harvard, with a reduction of around 38 percent according to the Crimson’s figures, is therefore actually doing okay by national standards. There are many reasons...
...very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.” And Clinton has consistently opposed the slaughter of sick ‘downer’ cattle, amongst other pro-animal stances, earning her a perfect score of 100 percent on last year’s HSLF Humane Scorecard...
...look at the previous year, I see it as one of the most difficult things I ever went through,” said Task Force Member Bruce Houghton. “In just meeting BRA’s structural requirements, 98 percent revolved around [those] needs or Harvard’s need to meet deadlines...