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Starting today, 13 undergraduates will have laminated signs on their doors that proudly read: “A DAPA lives here,”As of a graduation ceremony this afternoon, the students will be qualified as Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisers, or DAPAs, following a 12-week long training course in counseling and intervention on alcohol and drug issues. In addition to the plaques marking their residences, the advisers will have their names and contact information posted on the University Health Services website for students seeking their help.The training involved weekly two-and-a-half hour seminars which covered...
...Chicago, there are lots of sour faces as passengers step off the South Shore Line's cramped 7:35 into Chicago's Randolph Street station from nearby Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind. The 90-minute trip, along the electric-powered silver train that in normal years carries about 13,000 passengers a day in relative comfort, has seen daily ridership spike to over 17,000 at points in recent months. What was once a leisurely, relatively pleasant way to start off and end the workday has become an exercise in elbow wrestling...
...wouldn't say it's at the point where people are knocking each other around, but these trains, they're certainly filling up," said Chicago-area daily rider and state court reporter Gloria Shelley, 55, navigating a crowded station as commuters from Indiana and elsewhere hopped off a later train bound for the Chicago Cubs afternoon game...
...water shedding capacity,” according to her catalog. She said her interest in aquatic themes and human technology is rooted in her early fascination with contrasting industrial decay and swampy land. “I’m from northern New Jersey, and when you take the train from my house to New York you pass through the Meadowlands,” she said. “They’re beautiful swamps full of industrial ruin.” Van Cleef, who formerly focused on painting, recruited her friends to help produce around 10 articles of clothing...
...Leadership Institute at Harvard College (LIHC) has begun offering a range of programming this year to bring together campus leaders and offer them opportunities to learn skills and share strategies. While administration-run efforts to train student group leaders have generally focused on the admittedly important details of what Harvard regulations govern student groups, the LIHC has organized events focused on bringing student group leaders together to plan collaborative efforts and recently offered a series of seminars on public speaking...