Word: student
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With a student body accustomed to packed schedules of courses and activities and high expectations from family and friends, Harvard's environment sends many students overboard, according to Charles P. Ducey, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...difficult class or just one intense activity won't usually break a student. But when numerous different sources draw heavily on students' time, problems arise...
...These remote causes often involve a sense of feeling emotionally neglected or abused or mistreated in childhood and/or in current life, in ways that may still be unconscious to the student," Ducey adds...
...difficulty is that in college one is often only beginning to define oneself for the first time, separate from family, friends, teachers, etc., and a student is not yet clear what matters to him or her as a unique individual," Ducey writes...
Earlier this year we supported a term bill increase contingent on a council size reduction. A council which is not competitively elected cannot be truly representative of the student body. The bloated membership means less accountability and diffusion of responsibility, recipes for disaster when dealing with budgets and events. This is why we feel that it is only through reducing the size of the council that the council can legitimate itself in the eyes of students...