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Dara Horn's piece "God and the CS Student" (Opinion, Feb. 17) discusses RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury). Harvard has a number of resources available to students dealing with this problem. Briefly, if a student experiences pain or numbness in his or her hand, wrist or arm while using a computer keyboard, the student should stop typing, and see a primary care physician at the University Health Services...
Lastly, the student group Harvard RSI Action provides support and advocacy for students with RSI. The group's home page at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/RSI provides information about the condition and includes tips for injury prevention. JULIE HASSEL March...
Okay, so maybe the divine-retribution solution went out of style with the Book of Job. And maybe Harvard students are among the least likely persons on the planet to accept explanations involving deities of any sort. Yet RSI remains extremely disquieting, not only because it affects so many of us, but because it seems specifically designed to stunt our success. Of course, afflictions appropriate for Harvard students could have come in many forms. Harvard might have been plagued by Discussion Muteness Syndrome, in which long periods of babbling without frequent breaks would leave seminar jocks with stunted tongues, prevented...
...that's the biggest problem with RSI. Sure, we all know that physical maladies strike their victims randomly. We would hardly think to accuse cancer patients, for example, of being punished for undisclosed crimes. But as with all behavior-related preventable diseases, some unexpressed part of our psyche--and it is crucial that it remain unexpressed--feels a need to assign blame. We could always blame the University's administration (after all, this is the editorial page) for its failure to design workstations conducive to our health, but when we consider the fact that most students use their own computing...
...reading enough, by e-mailing too much and not phoning enough, by working too much and not playing enough, we could conceivably have brought this plague upon ourselves. Perhaps our hands are telling us something that our minds don't want to know. And that, if you have RSI, is too hard to handle...