Word: stigmas
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...direct students to the proper organization and assist in coordination. This should not be difficult to do; the University already created a similar central office last spring—the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. There are many reasons students avoid seeking treatment, such as the stigma attached to it and the difficulty in recognizing mental problems. Harvard should not let bureaucratic incompetence give its students another reason to avoid treatment. Centralize the system first. Then move on to less fundamental problems...
...Webster, then please, by all means, use a different name. As far as I’m concerned, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. However, according to the Massachusetts Supreme Court, civil unions “would have the effect of maintaining and fostering a stigma of exclusion that the Constitution prohibits...
...very happy to have the bureau’s mission fuzzed up,” Hyman says. The ambiguity allows students to use its resources while avoiding the stigma often associated with mental illness...
...even critics of the bureau’s amorphous mission concede that its wide focus allows the bureau to have much less of a stigma than...
Online romance may have shed its stigma over the past couple of years, but until now the electronic process has been only a little bit faster than its off-line counterpart. Finding out whether your latest suitor is a loser could take days, if not weeks, when you're merely bouncing e-mail back and forth. What if you want to sort the wheat from the chaff right this minute? Isn't the Internet supposed to be about instant gratification...