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According to the survey, between 66 and 70 percent of black students at HLS are women, despite the fact that the school’s student body is only 44 percent female overall...
According to a UHS survey conducted during the 2001-2002 academic year, 9.5 percent of students reported having been clinically diagnosed with depression, 40.1 percent reported that at least once during the year they felt so depressed that it was difficult to function, 7.8 percent reported that they seriously considered committing suicide and approximately 1.1 percent—about nine students of the 930 who responded—reported attempting suicide in the previous year. Richard D. Kadison, director of UHS Mental Health Services, said that Harvard’s numbers are consistent with national trends, but that they remain...
...stripped of their government funding and forced to become financially self sufficient. To survive, many local clinics eschewed public-minded immunization drives for more profitable ventures, like selling medicine and services at inflated prices. The social pitfalls of this system were laid bare in a 1998 United Nations-led survey, which found that almost half of those who had fallen below China's poverty line did so only after suffering from a major disease. Today, just 15% of Chinese have health insurance. The nation's recent SARS crisis served as another reality check; crucial weeks were lost because only...
...Behind these deaths lurk an array of grim statistics that show how prevalent mental disorders have become on campus. Data from a 2001 survey of college mental-health counselors, when compared with past findings, revealed that the percentage of students treated at college counseling centers who have had psychological problems diagnosed and are taking psychotropic drugs increased from 7% in 1992 to 18% in 2001, according to Greg Snodgrass, director of the counseling center at Texas State University. The survey also found that during the previous five years, 85% of North American student counseling centers reported an increase in students...
...every partier that wants to be an exception to stereotypes of straight-edged Harvard. All the better, for some, that a full 68 percent of Harvard students did not drink five or more drinks during a typical two-week period in 2002, according to a National College Health Assessment survey. That only steels their minoritarian dash. After all, what better way to drown dorky Harvard stereotypes—and dorkier Harvard realities—than to ape our non-Ivy League peers and co-opt the carouser’s cachet...