Word: suffering
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...frustration over narrow-minded colleagues. "It felt as though we were being punished for crimes we hadn't realized we had committed," Chai writes in Hapa Girl, her searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland. "There were many people who wanted my father to suffer. They were going to show this 'Chinaman' his place...
...sizable number of faculty members still clamoring behind the scenes for further exceptions and inclusions of their own particular areas of expertise, and anemic implementing legislation that leaves many of the important details of implementation to the whims of an all-powerful standing committee, the new system threatens to suffer from the same forces of accretion that have watered down the Core. For better or worse, our august professorate cannot think in terms abstracted from individual disciplines and cannot let go of the temptation to herd students into their classrooms by requirement. Thus, we can foresee nothing but inevitable failure...
Harvard students need to better understand the nature—and prevalence— of mental illness. Mental illness is not something that other people have; according to the NIMH, one in four adults will suffer from one or more mental illnesses in his lifetime, and one in seven will suffer from one or more severe illness. Before referring in jest to “those voices in your head,” keep in mind that schizophrenia destroys lives, and that last year UHS diagnosed five Harvard students with the disease. In other words, if your joking hides real...
...early adulthood. Be sensitive, be open-minded, be aware and get informed: When others reference mental health in a trivial or stigmatizing way, remind them that mental illness is a serious issue that affects everybody. Hundreds of Harvard students live with mental illness; you or a loved one may suffer from a disease that others may, in their ignorance, attempt to render funny. Ideally, the result of education about mental illness will be not only the elimination of ridicule at its expense, but also of harmful misconceptions that perpetuate its stigma...
...Chicago Bear Merril Hoge retired after suffering two concussions within 42 days. Because he was not required to have a second evaluation following his initial treatment, he returned to the field five days after his first concussion, only to suffer a hit to the same unhealed spot. Past and current players suggest that playing despite injury is implied and expected. But Hoge, wary of the danger of multiple concussions, claims that he was fortunate: “Second impact syndrome kills you...I got lucky...