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...will reduce the "self-help" requirement of its package by $2,000. Before the change, the school required all students on financial aid to contribute at least $7,600 to their education...
Harvard's average financial aid package this year is approximately $23,000. As of next year, Harvard students will only have to contribute $3,150 of "self-help" money...
...Center for Science in the Public Interest and Johns Hopkins Medical Letter, Health After 50. "At my age, your body has all kinds of surprise quirks," explains Singer, 70. "You don't always want to run to the doctor, so it's helpful to know a bit of self-help...
...cash cow for hospitals and that the response rates cited by the Surgeon General are inflated. In 1996, Lawrence of ect.org surveyed 41 former electroshock patients and found that 70% said the treatment had no effect on their depression. Joseph Rogers, executive director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, says 3 out of 4 of the electroshock patients he speaks with had negative experiences: coercion by psychiatrists, confusion, memory loss. Rogers and Lawrence don't want the treatment banned, but they believe few would undergo it if they knew all the risks beforehand...
Administrators say the move was motivated by concerns that students' obligations to fill the self-help requirement of their packages might be detracting from their college experiences as well as their future career choices...